Photo by Zooey
Okay folks, this is your late, late, super late, open thread. 🙂
I took this photo on a trip to the Oregon coast in 2008, and I’m standing above the top of Devil’s Churn. It’s pretty damn awesome!
This is our daily open thread — let the abuse flow.
TheZoo 
“Let the abuse begin”
*facepalm*
Thank you for setting the tone, Gary. 😛
I’m here to help.
Thank you, so much. 😉
As you know; I have a love for all things that fly except helicopters. (Helicopters have a potential to kill everyone on board if a single bolt or bearing breaks.) The Scorpion is a fascinating project that, aside from being a potential weapon, demonstrates American know how at its best. One would hope that those who are going to buy warplanes, no matter what, would appreciate such a relatively cheap and simple product developed as a private venture. Alas. The huge “defense” firms and the politicians who feed them will kill it just as they have every earlier attempt to make a warplane that makes so much sense.
The sun is rising in some part of the world…
“Texas Board of Education member David Bradley wants to set the record straight on global warming.” Just what you expect.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/proposed-texas-textbooks-teach-climate-change-doubt-20140915
I’d be curious on how he’d explain the ‘theory’ of wind!
Haven’t you heard the fundy line on wind? Their version is that since you can’t see wind but know it’s there; it proves the logic of faith.
In good conscience I can not link to the story of a, major company, that thought and wanted to profit off of this tragedy.
I saw the story. I didn’t actually puke but would probably feel better if I had.
Michael Tomasky wishes Obama would treat Americans like grown ups and admit that we can’t “destroy” ISIS:
“We’ve been trying to destroy Al Qaeda for 13 years now. We have not. We will not. And we will not destroy ISIS. We can’t destroy these outfits. They’re too nimble and slippery and amorphous, and everybody knows it. So why say it? Why not say what we hopefully can do and what we should do: contain it. We have contained Al Qaeda. Some of the methods have been morally problematic (drone strikes that sometimes kill innocents, etc.), but the methods have worked. Al Qaeda, say the experts, is now probably not in a position to pull off a 9/11. Containment is fine. It does the job. But no, I guess a president can’t say that. A president has to sound like John Wayne. It’s depressing and appalling.”
This could give the hand-made soap folks a bad rap.
That is truly shitty-looking soap. 😆
That would be the reason for ‘inspection’!
Talk of the town…rains a comin’!
Wednesday or Thursday!