March 1, 2017

I think he just got a BINGO

he said radical Islam terrorists...his magic words. Poof...they are all gone, and he gets a tootsie roll.

March 1, 2017

This is what Obama told Sasha and Malia the day after the election

After Donald Trump was elected president, many Americans who didn’t support him were shocked by his victory, frightened of what was to come, and mournful of the end of President Obama’s term. Parents in that position in particular have struggled with talking to their children about what a Trump presidency means.

In a sprawling new interview in The New Yorker, President Obama shared with David Remnick what he told his own daughters, Sasha and Malia, in the aftermath of Trump’s win:


“What I say to them is that people are complicated,” Obama told me. “Societies and cultures are really complicated … This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop … You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”


A pep talk for everyone.

February 28, 2017

Did you guys know Obama called delegates Saturday to rally votes for Perez?

Just read this by Gauis Publius


Obama called DNC members himself [on behalf of Tom Perez], and had aides including confidante Valerie Jarrett, former political director David Simas and his White House director of political engagement Paulette Aniskoff working members by phone through the votes on Saturday afternoon.—Politico

February 27, 2017

this one will make you cry... happy

Last nite at the Oscars, the real Katherine Johnson came on stage with the 3 ladies. What a wonderful country we can be when we want to be.

February 27, 2017

Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one.

“Bring me one woman who has been left behind. Bring me one. There’s not one … The fact of the matter is this is a trampling on religious freedom and religious liberty in this country.”

— Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, who is not here for your birth control needs.

I am finding it harder and harder to be optimistic guys.....

February 27, 2017

Mitch McConnell now has motorcycle gangs as his security

Mitch McConnell now has motorcycle gangs as his security. Preceeding his vehicle. This is how brownshirts started. It gets more nuts every day folks.

February 26, 2017

Blue Ribbons worn at Oscars is ACLU

hoping for some fireworks.

February 26, 2017

Rob Reiner's old man tweets

carl reiner

If Trump had been Prez when my folks migrated I'd have been deprived of tweeting & TV fans would've been deprived of The Dick Van Dyke Show

February 26, 2017

Just saw Hidden Figures and was knocked out

Just saw Hidden Figures and was knocked out. It was magnificent. And it was near impossible to not relate it to what is happening in America right now. 1961 a bad time for equal rights, a grand time for science and math. Oh, what a wonderful country we can be folks.

NASA's chief historian, Bill Barry, explains that the film, which has been nominated for a slew of awards, depicts many real events from their lives. "One thing we're frequently asked," he says, "is whether or not John Glenn actually asked for Katherine Johnson to 'check the numbers.'" The answer is yes: Glenn, the first American in orbit and later, at the age of 77, the oldest man in space, really did ask for Johnson to manually check calculations generated by IBM 7090 computers (the electronic kind) churning out numbers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.


Though the film shows Glenn asking for Johnson's approval from the launch pad, she was actually called in well before the launch. Calculating the output for 11 different variables to eight significant digits took a day and a half. Her calculations matched the computer's results exactly. Not only did her conclusions give Glenn and everyone else confidence in the upcoming launch, but they also proved the critical computer software was reliable.
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To add to the accuracy of the film, NASA consulted on the film's script, answering questions and providing photographs, documents and films for the filmmakers. NASA even loaned a few items for use as props in the movie. For example, look out for the painting on the wall of NASA's offices (pictured here over Kevin Costner's shoulder).

That painting was part of a series depicting the history of flight from Icarus to the 20th century, which actually hung on the walls of the real Langley Lab in the NACA days. The paintings were in storage and in need of restoration when they were loaned to the movie and placed on set in Atlanta as a link to the real offices.

The film compresses the sequence of real events to set the story around 1961, when Glenn's first mission took place. "If the film was a documentary, many of the events would have been spread out over the late 1940s through the early 1960s," says Barry. For example, a lot happened in 1958, the year NACA became NASA: Mary Jackson qualified as NASA's first black engineer, Katherine Johnson joined the newly formed Space Task Group, and segregation ended.

In real life, the head of the Space Task Group was a man named Bob Gilruth. Unlike the fictional character played by Kevin Costner, he didn't dramatically take a crowbar to a restroom sign.

"Desegregation of bathroom and dining facilities happened gradually and quietly over the 1950s at Langley lab," explains Barry. Langley lab was a federal facility but was located in Virginia, which had state-mandated segregation. "There was some tension between local and federal 'rules' on this issue," says Barry.

Segregation effectively ended when specialised workers were distributed among offices and facilities instead of being grouped together in pools. The segregated West Computing Unit, which comprised African-American women, was eliminated in the spring of 1958.

Women like Johnson, Jackson and Vaughan blazed the trail for America in space and for black women back on Earth. From the hidden figures of the past to the scientists and engineers of today, you can go to NASA's website to meet the diverse range of extraordinary people with their eyes on the stars.

February 25, 2017

Are you, asked the reporter, African American? Like a cartoon, her features froze. I dont under

Are you,” asked the reporter, “African American?” Like a cartoon, her features froze. “I don’t understand the question.” Remember Rachel? Update for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/rachel-dolezal-not-going-stoop-apologise-grovel?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=214995&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection