Saturday, October 31, 2020
John Williams - Star Wars Theme (Live, 1984) (HQ áudio)
Wikipedia
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, pianist and trombonist. Regarded by many as the greatest film composer of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005 the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest film score of all time. The Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The best classical music radio station in the world. It's in Chicago but you can listen to it anywhere on this planet.
Then click "Listen".
BBC News - This is more evidence for the idea that Muslims are stupid fucking assholes.
Niger: American hostage rescued by US special forces
An American hostage kidnapped in Niger earlier this week has been freed in a raid by US special forces, the Pentagon has announced.
Philip Walton was abducted on Monday from a village close to the border with Nigeria.
He was taken across the border into Nigeria and rescued on Saturday.
Jihadist and criminal groups are known to operate in the area. It's thought at least six hostages are currently being held captive in the Sahel area.
Mr Walton was abducted from the village of Massalata, where he had been living with his wife and child for two years, his father told AFP news agency.
Locals said six men armed with AK47s arrived in the village on motorbikes.
It's unclear why Mr Walton was targeted and who the armed group were.
"This American citizen is safe and is now in the care of the US Department of State," a statement from Jonathan Hoffman, assistant to the Secretary of State for Public Affairs said.
He added that no American service personnel were harmed in the operation to rescue Mr Walton from the "armed men".
US President Donald Trump sent a tweet praising the elite special forces.
Niger is battling various armed groups. In August, six French aid workers as well as their driver and local guide were killed by gunmen in the Koure area of Tillebery region, which attracts tourists who want to see the last herds of giraffe in West Africa.
At least six Western hostages are being held in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, including the American aid worker Jeffery Woodke, who was kidnapped in central Niger four years ago.
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Christians are extremely stupid. For example this fucking asshole: The Village Idiot.
The village idiot wrote this:
"The fact that the universe exists, and there is no possible natural explanation for how it came into existence."
Scientists are still working on this interesting problem but not one of them thinks your magic man did it.
The same village idiot wrote this:
"And the fact that I know Him, and live in daily relationship and communication with him."
The village idiot has conversations with his god fairy. The stupid, it burns.
Almost 100% of the time, pawns are promoted to queens. In this chess game I had to promote a pawn to a knight to avoid getting killed.
My opponent was going to checkmate me in one move. There was an interesting way to save the game but first, while my clock was ticking, I had to figure out how to change my preferences and then find out where I could turn off "Promote to Queen automatically". It took me more than 2 minutes. After figuring that out I promoted the pawn to a Knight, then I was able to checkmate my opponent in 4 moves. The time control was 10 minutes to finish the game so I could have lost if my clock ran out.
It's very unusual to have to promote a pawn to a Knight and I didn't think it would ever happen to me.
This is the game. I had the Black pieces.
https://lichess.org/OxJuNIqm/black#0
I was killed in a chess game. My opponent lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. There is an interesting difference between his profile and my profile. I suggest click the 2 links.
Санкт-Петербург
Pavel Kapustin
St. Petersburg
His profile
My profile
Today is October 31, 2020. The election is 3 days from now on November 3, 2020. Fucktard Trump against Fucktard Biden. Which fucktard will win? Nobody knows.
In 3 days
November 3, 2020
Friday, October 30, 2020
I asked a question about religious fucktards. Somebody wrote an excellent answer.
Because their claims are goddam retarded, magic, fairytales, magic sky wizards, zombie jews, reincarnation, magical afterlives in the sky, etc. Anyone with an iota of common sense can easily destroy their ridiculous nonsense. That’s why they want to censor people’s speech because that speech exposes their religion as the fraud that it is. It’s funny how they want to censor their opponents when they supposedly are ‘right’ in their beliefs, if they are the sensical and correct ones, wouldn’t they want their opponents to be heard so that people could hear how stupid they are? This is why atheists typically don’t try to suppress religious people from talking, when religious people argue for their religion they’re only exposing how insane they are and discrediting themselves.
-- Anonymous
Belgium is having a bad year as is every country on this planet. A face mask is a good thing. Use it FFS.
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Fucktard Trump has a long history of doing everything he can to destroy the environment.
Trump rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards. Here’s how.
President Trump has weakened or wiped out over 125 rules and policies aimed at protecting the nation’s air, water and land, with nearly 40 more rollbacks underway, according to a Washington Post analysis.
By Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and John Muyskens ● Read more »
The universe is trying to kill Turkey and Greece. Nobody cares.
The Washington Post
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I answered a ridiculous question about the dead Magic Jeebus Man.
The Magic Jeebus Man dropped dead 2,000 years ago. There is nothing left of him. The worms and maggots ate the whole thing.
One more thing: The Christian retards who think there is a magical 2nd life are insane, not to mention cowardly, gullible, and just plain fucking stupid.
Republicans are anti-science morons.
Science
EDITORIAL
It's just louder this time
H. Holden Thorp
October 30, 2020
As if there were any doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump has no respect for scientists, he now refers to public health scholars as “Fauci and all these idiots.” That's how he's describing experts in virology, immunology, epidemiology, and infectious disease. Never mind that after recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Trump suddenly became excited about future vaccines and “Regeneron,” which is what he calls monoclonal antibodies in general. (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is probably thrilled to have achieved the product-brand status of Xerox and Kleenex, but Eli Lilly also has developed promising monoclonals, and more are in clinical trials.) Apparently, no one told the president that scientists from these same fields—many of whom live in “Democrat-run cities” or college towns and are immigrants who wouldn't be here under his policies—created these drugs and carried out the decades of science that made them possible. This paradox of loving the drug but hating the science is nothing new. It's just louder this time.
Republican presidents were not always rhetorically hostile to science. As described earlier this year on this page, on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg carefully traced how the United States got to this point. In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon worked hard to pass important pieces of public health and environmental legislation that were approved with large bipartisan majorities in Congress. Then, when Ronald Reagan arrived as a candidate in the 1980 election, he advocated teaching creationism in public schools and mocked environmental science and regulation. In his brand of conservatism, the free market and American exceptionalism could not coexist with a shared responsibility for caring for the planet or its inhabitants.
Vice President Mike Pence is carrying on Reagan's tradition. In a widely viewed speech on the House floor when he was a member of Congress, Pence extolled “intelligent design.” He cited a then-recent study of new fossils, which enhanced our understanding of how human life unfolded on Earth, as evidence that evolution was invalid because scientists were always changing theories when new data were obtained. He was criticizing scientists for doing science, as my colleague Jon Cohen recently tweeted. If Pence thinks we can't change our understanding with new data, then we'd have to go back to breathing phlogiston and being orbited by the Sun.
The paradox has played out for years. Many Republicans in Congress have been strong advocates for science funding, especially for the National Institutes of Health, although some simultaneously espouse antiscience views and embrace creationism. Biology is the study of evolution, and biomedicine is applied evolution. Why would creationists spend money to study and apply this heresy? Because they want their new medicines. They want to tell their constituents that they are fighting diseases that are harming their families. Arguing for science funding by promising new cures has been a winning political strategy for the 75 years that the United States has had federally funded science.
A recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that only 20% of the political right has “a lot” of confidence in scientists. Yet when folks at this end of the political spectrum get sick, they want the best treatments that secular academic medicine can provide. The consequences of this are profound and especially apparent in the COVID-19 crisis. The same politicians who are criticizing public health guidance are praising vaccines and antibodies without acknowledging that they come from the same principles and researchers as masks and social distancing.
When the presidential election is over, science will face an important choice. Should the scientific community try to get the missing 80% of the ideological right to understand its people and its methods? Or should science write it off as a lost cause and continue to take the funding while providing the outstanding new medicines?
Thursday, October 29, 2020
I found this at the Wall Street Journal. It's about the airhead Biden chose to be his Vice-President.
Many Democrats, maybe most Democrats, want to pack the Supreme Court. And this is one of the many reasons why I could never vote for their moron politicians like Biden and his airhead Vice President.
OPINION
COMMENTARY
Democrats Against Court Packing
A constitutional amendment would protect the judiciary’s independence.
By Jill Long Thompson and Nick Rahall
October 28, 2020
We are Democrats. We want to see Joe Biden become president and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. But we oppose expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court.
An independent Supreme Court is fundamental to America’s system of checks and balances. It’s the only institution that can settle difficult, divisive questions about the meaning of the law in a way that both sides can accept. An independent Supreme Court that interprets the law is critical to the rule of law itself. It sets an example for emerging democracies around the world.
Expanding the court could exacerbate the problems we’re trying to address. A larger court increases the risk of a highly skewed, unbalanced court. The larger the court, the longer it would take to restore a balance.
Whether members of one party have abused their power, changed their position, or broken their word in the process of filling a Supreme Court vacancy isn’t the issue. The history of misbehavior by politicians is long and sordid. It’s also a reason to preserve and strengthen checks and balances, not weaken them.
We applaud the many Democrats and Republicans who’ve opposed expanding the size of the Supreme Court. We urge them to endorse the Keep Nine constitutional amendment, which would state simply: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.”
Amending the Constitution isn’t easy. Proposing an amendment requires two-thirds votes in both houses of Congress, and it takes 38 state legislatures to ratify it. The Constitution has been amended only 27 times in 233 years. But an active and engaged public helped persuade Congress to propose the Bill of Rights in 1789, the 19th Amendment (guaranteeing a woman’s right to vote) in 1919, and the 22nd Amendment (setting presidential term limits) in 1947. Similar citizen energy could persuade Congress to propose the Keep Nine Amendment. Polling shows that voters favor the amendment by more than 3 to 1.
It is up to engaged citizens and thoughtful elected officials to rise above narrow partisanship and work together to preserve an independent Supreme Court for the future of the nation.
Ms. Long Thompson and Mr. Rahall, both Democrats, are former U.S. representatives from Indiana and West Virginia, respectively.
Appeared in the October 29, 2020, print edition.
Pennsylvania: the state can decide before Election Day whether election officials can continue receiving absentee ballots for three days after November 3. North Carolina: the state’s board of elections will extend the deadline to nine days after Election Day.
"The Democrats are going to make the entire nation wait several days before we know who won. This is one of many reasons why I could never vote for a Democrat."
American morons don't wear a mask then they drop dead. Good riddance.
BREAKING NEWS |
The U.S. has surpassed nine million coronavirus cases, with infections rising in 42 states, as the nation struggles to contain a third surge. |
Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:14 PM EST |
Across the country, alarming signs suggested the worst was yet to come: More than 20 states reported more cases over the past week than at any time during the pandemic. |
I wrote this question for some of the cowardly Christian morons who infest Idiot America.
I wrote this comment for the Republican morons who infest the Wall Street Journal.
Christians are stupid fucking assholes. I answered a question about these subhumans.
I never met a Christian who wasn't a retard.
Christians are cowards. Reality makes them cry.
Christians brainwash children. Their victims learn how to be stupid. All the curiosity they were born with is sucked out of them.
Brainwashing is child abuse. The Christians who do this should be put in prison.
Thanks to Christian scum there is a never-ending war against teaching evolution. Science makes Christian morons cry. Christians are scum.
The wimpy Washington Post and the wimpy New York Times didn't mention this interesting fact: A woman's head was cut off, probably while she screamed. This is a political correctness problem. Liberal scum like to suck up to Muslim scum because it's politically correct to do that.
Here is another reason why Muslim assholes should never be allowed to enter civilized countries. Muslims are scum.
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I don't visit "Religion of Peace" very much because it's always the same thing: Muslim morons killing Muslim morons. It's never going to end because stupid can't be fixed.
Atrocity of the Week
Children Among 24 Dead in
Bombing at Kabul School
Other Recent "Misunderstandings of Islam"
2020.10.27 (Pakistan)
Hardliners send ball bearings and shrapnel through a rival Quran school, killing eight.
2020.10.26 (Afghanistan)
Four children are liquidated by Taliban bombers.
2020.10.26 (Egypt)
A landmine planted by fundamentalists kills a third-grade student.
2020.10.25 (Egypt)
Islamic terrorists booby-trap homes, killing over a dozen - including women and children.
2020.10.24 (Afghanistan)
A Sunni suicide blast rips through a Shiite education center - and the lives of dozens, including children.
2020.10.24 (Afghanistan)
Four women are among nine bus passengers purged by Taliban bombers.
Somebody asked this interesting question: "Can Jesus Christ fly?"
A copy & paste job
 October 28, 2020 |
Your Wednesday Evening Briefing |
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. |
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1. Stocks fell in Europe and the U.S. as investors fret over the impact of the coronavirus pandemic’s new wave. |
Oil prices dropped more than 5 percent, and shares of energy producers fared poorly. Even Big Tech suffered: Apple and Microsoft dropped more than 4 percent, and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, slid more than 5 percent. |
With the U.S. hitting a record of more than 500,000 new coronavirus cases over the past week, Covid-19 hospital admissions have climbed an estimated 46 percent from a month ago, and many hospitals are reeling. In El Paso, above, Covid-19 hospitalizations have more than tripled over the past three weeks. |
Germany is closing restaurants, bars, gyms and other businesses, and France is going into a second national lockdown starting on Friday — all with an eye to keeping schools open. |
“The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said. |
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2. Drive-through polling places. Zoom rallies. The coronavirus has upended the 2020 election season at nearly every turn. |
The collision of the election and the pandemic has thrown campaigns and early voting efforts into a last-minute frenzy. Above, a voter in San Francisco. |
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Joe Biden is maintaining a measured campaign pace that, in victory, would underscore his appeal as a safe and steady alternative to President Trump, but that, in loss, would very likely inspire overwhelming second-guessing. |
In other news bearing on the election: |
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Worried about Election Day? Here’s our Anxious Person’s Guide to the 2020 Election. |
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4. “It’s coming fast, it’s coming strong.” |
That was Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans, warning of the approach of Hurricane Zeta at Category 2 strength Zeta is expected to bring heavy rains and damaging winds to a state that has already been clobbered four times this hurricane season. |
The storm is expected to move across the Southeastern and Eastern U.S. on Thursday, dumping up to six inches of rain in some locations. |
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5. Philadelphia is under curfew after two nights of protests over a police killing of a Black man, Walter Wallace Jr. Above, an arrest Tuesday night. |
Mr. Wallace, a 27-year-old with a history of mental health problems, was killed on Monday, after the police responded to a call about a man with a knife. In an encounter captured on video, Mr. Wallace is seen walking into the street as two white police officers, backing away, aim their guns at him. Someone yells, “Drop the knife.” |
Mr. Wallace appears to continue to approach. The officers fire multiple rounds. |
His neighborhood, Port Richmond, has exploded in rage. Dozens of people have been arrested, protesters have looted stores, a police car was burned and 30 officers have been hurt. |
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6. Big Tech was back in the hot seat. |
Chief executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter appeared before a Senate hearing on a law that protects internet companies from liability for much of what their users post, and on how they moderate content. |
Democrats focused on misinformation and extremism. They also accused Republicans of holding the hearing to benefit President Trump. |
Republicans accused the executives of selective censorship, questioning Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, above, on how the company handled specific tweets. “Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?” Senator Ted Cruz said. |
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6. Tens of thousands of people took to Poland’s streets for a nationwide strike to protest a court decision banning nearly all abortions. |
Now in their sixth day, the protests drew thousands of women, joined by numerous men, who abandoned their offices in dozens of cities, including Warsaw, above. |
The ruling, made by a top court last week, stopped pregnancy terminations for fetal abnormalities, virtually the only type of abortion currently performed in the country. The protests have turned into a broader expression of anger at a right-wing government that opponents accuse of hijacking the judiciary and chipping away at the rights of women and minorities. |
The leader of the ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, accused demonstrators of seeking the destruction of the nation and appealed to supporters to “defend churches.” |
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7. A radical proposal to combat climate change is gaining traction: artificially cooling the planet to buy humanity more time to cut greenhouse gas emissions. |
The idea, called solar climate intervention or solar geoengineering, is to inject particles into the atmosphere to reflect more of the sun’s energy back into space, the way ash clouds spewed by volcanic eruptions do. |
“I liken geoengineering to chemotherapy for the planet: If all else is failing, you try it,” said the author of a book on the approach. |
Several universities received grants to study how it might be done, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is researching. In Australia, the government is funding research for a parallel idea to try to save the Great Barrier Reef: making clouds more reflective by spraying saltwater into the air. |