Hungarian President Viktor Orban: “Therefore the Hungarians, unlike Europe, are able to define where they came from, where they are and where they are heading. By contrast, Europe denies where it came from and is reluctant to admit where it is heading …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7oCXPb2Iw
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/
Hungarian government exists for protection of its citizens, Orban says.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Government isn’t doing enough to prepare us for … something really bad
‘Experts issue terrifying warning about the threats facing our species and warn that governments simply aren't prepared to combat them’
“The rise of robots and deadly viruses are among the threats that could wipe out swathes of humanity – but governments are failing to prepare properly for them, a new report warns.
“Catastrophic climate change, nuclear war and natural disasters such as super volcanoes and asteroids could also pose a deadly risk to mankind, researchers said.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/apocalypse-way-scientists-fear-asteroids-7850630
Link “The End Is Near,” http://thezman.com/wordpress/
Key words: “experts,” “new report,” “researchers.”
I read all of the Z-Man’s column, but not more than four paragraphs of the Mirror story. Some people get money from being a “researcher” and issuing “a new report” that calls for “governments” to become more involved. I guess maybe I am jealous because I never got any of the money and did not publish gloom and doom and warn the public: “The sky is …” BOINK!
“The rise of robots and deadly viruses are among the threats that could wipe out swathes of humanity – but governments are failing to prepare properly for them, a new report warns.
“Catastrophic climate change, nuclear war and natural disasters such as super volcanoes and asteroids could also pose a deadly risk to mankind, researchers said.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/apocalypse-way-scientists-fear-asteroids-7850630
Link “The End Is Near,” http://thezman.com/wordpress/
Key words: “experts,” “new report,” “researchers.”
I read all of the Z-Man’s column, but not more than four paragraphs of the Mirror story. Some people get money from being a “researcher” and issuing “a new report” that calls for “governments” to become more involved. I guess maybe I am jealous because I never got any of the money and did not publish gloom and doom and warn the public: “The sky is …” BOINK!
The greatest beer run ever
He heard some guys from the neighborhood were thirsty. In Vietnam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WAUmyKDq0
Link at http://blog.xbradtc.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WAUmyKDq0
Link at http://blog.xbradtc.com/
More than half a ton of Roman coins found buried in Spain
“Construction workers repairing water pipes in Seville, southern Spain, have discovered 600kg of ancient Roman coins, covered with dirt and dust. The find is said to be worth at least “several million euros.”
“Tens of thousands of bronze coins, dating back to the third and fourth centuries, were found inside 19 Roman amphoras in the town of Tomares near Seville, El Pais reported.
"’This find is extremely important,’ Ana Navarro, head of Seville’s Archeology Museum now looking after the find, told
El Pais. ‘It is a unique collection, and there are very few similar cases,’ she added.”
https://www.rt.com/news/341324-roman-coins-spain-tons/
(Ms. Navarro is a fine practitioner of understatement.)
“’I could not give you a monetary value, because the value they really have is historical and you can’t calculate that.’”
(Oh, I’m certain somebody can calculate the modern value. And will. And did in an earlier paragraph.)
Link at http://neveryetmelted.com/
You have to wonder: Why did someone bury that many coins? Who deposited the coins? Maybe the jars were not buried by the owner, but by time.
“Tens of thousands of bronze coins, dating back to the third and fourth centuries, were found inside 19 Roman amphoras in the town of Tomares near Seville, El Pais reported.
"’This find is extremely important,’ Ana Navarro, head of Seville’s Archeology Museum now looking after the find, told
El Pais. ‘It is a unique collection, and there are very few similar cases,’ she added.”
https://www.rt.com/news/341324-roman-coins-spain-tons/
(Ms. Navarro is a fine practitioner of understatement.)
“’I could not give you a monetary value, because the value they really have is historical and you can’t calculate that.’”
(Oh, I’m certain somebody can calculate the modern value. And will. And did in an earlier paragraph.)
Link at http://neveryetmelted.com/
You have to wonder: Why did someone bury that many coins? Who deposited the coins? Maybe the jars were not buried by the owner, but by time.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Flying cars, jetpacks and robot kitchens
Not bloody likely.
“The robot future imagined by our overlords is nothing like that glorious future sold to my grandmother in newsreels. Her glorious future was a great time to be alive. American would be free from the mundane to conquer the world. The robot future sold today is sterile and joyless, a great time to take advantage of the suicide kiosk at the mall. The great minds of our age say the future is pointless. Instead of a singularity, it will be a nullity.” – ‘The Automat of the Future’
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
In the days of B&W only TV, NBC’s Dave Garroway hosted a 90-minute Sunday afternoon program called Wide, Wide World. One episode had a segment on the future semi-driverless car, in which the family (Dad, Mom, Sis and Brother) got into their comfortable, transparent-roofed automobile for a cross-country trip. Dad droveto the four-lane highway, and then automation took over, and the family members were free to discuss events of the day, as well as literature and classical music, with no fear of road rage drivers, since all other vehicles also were on automatic pilot. I don’t recall any 18-wheelers or smoke belching cars on the road. No. It was the future, where such did not exist.
“The robot future imagined by our overlords is nothing like that glorious future sold to my grandmother in newsreels. Her glorious future was a great time to be alive. American would be free from the mundane to conquer the world. The robot future sold today is sterile and joyless, a great time to take advantage of the suicide kiosk at the mall. The great minds of our age say the future is pointless. Instead of a singularity, it will be a nullity.” – ‘The Automat of the Future’
http://thezman.com/wordpress/
In the days of B&W only TV, NBC’s Dave Garroway hosted a 90-minute Sunday afternoon program called Wide, Wide World. One episode had a segment on the future semi-driverless car, in which the family (Dad, Mom, Sis and Brother) got into their comfortable, transparent-roofed automobile for a cross-country trip. Dad droveto the four-lane highway, and then automation took over, and the family members were free to discuss events of the day, as well as literature and classical music, with no fear of road rage drivers, since all other vehicles also were on automatic pilot. I don’t recall any 18-wheelers or smoke belching cars on the road. No. It was the future, where such did not exist.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
SECNAV: It ain’t gonna happen! Unless it happens
“I will never lower standards,” Mabus said during an April 12 town hall at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. “Let me repeat that: Standards will not be lowered for any group! Standards may be changed as circumstances in the world change, but they’ll be changed for everybody.”
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=65486
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=65486
The Vikings are coming
Longship left Tuesday for America.
“The America Expedition is mind-bogglingly ambitious. Captain Björn Ahlander and a crew of 32 damn hardy men and women selected from 4,000 applicants have embarked on a voyage of 6,000 miles that will taken (sic) them to Iceland, Greenland, through the iceberg fields of the North Atlantic to Newfoundland, then to Quebec City, Toronto and into the US via the Great Lakes. The first US port of call will be Fairport, Ohio, and then on to Tall Ship festivals in Bay City, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. Then it will head back east again through the Great Lakes, the canals of New York State to the Hudson River. Yes, a Viking longship will be going through canal locks. The sail is coming down for that part, obviously. After a stop in New York City in September, the Draken Harald Hårfagre will winter at the wonderful Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.”
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41830
No word on whether Ragnar Lothbrok is part of the crew.
“The America Expedition is mind-bogglingly ambitious. Captain Björn Ahlander and a crew of 32 damn hardy men and women selected from 4,000 applicants have embarked on a voyage of 6,000 miles that will taken (sic) them to Iceland, Greenland, through the iceberg fields of the North Atlantic to Newfoundland, then to Quebec City, Toronto and into the US via the Great Lakes. The first US port of call will be Fairport, Ohio, and then on to Tall Ship festivals in Bay City, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. Then it will head back east again through the Great Lakes, the canals of New York State to the Hudson River. Yes, a Viking longship will be going through canal locks. The sail is coming down for that part, obviously. After a stop in New York City in September, the Draken Harald Hårfagre will winter at the wonderful Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.”
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41830
No word on whether Ragnar Lothbrok is part of the crew.
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