I read it first in the SDMB! They also say she brings good luck to her partners. I don’t know, how could I prove them wrong? I’ll leave that to VP JD if he feels so inclined. Others have observed that the name Erika Kirk has three K’s and she would be unwilling to lose that distinction by dent of marriage.
In the interest of correcting something that’s wrong on the internet: Buzz Aldrin has never denied the moon landing, and in fact, has gotten pretty upset when confronted by moon landing conspiracy theorists. There is of course gravity on the moon, but no atmosphere or wind, so the flag is held up by a thin, flexible rod along the top. And the stars don’t appear in some photos because the photos were taken in bright sunlight. Because there is no atmosphere to scatter the sunlight, the sky is still black, but the Sun shining on the moon’s surface (and objects) is bright enough to make the required camera exposure settings such that stars are too dim to show up.
Apparently, part of the hoax ‘proof’ is that the flag is actually rippling “in the wind”. Easily explained by the lack of atmosphere - extending it on rod puts it in motion and as Mr Newton stated, it will stay in motion with no atmosphere to act as an outside force.
I may have a slightly higher opinion of baseball than you do, but the other thing that occurred to me was why the play national anthem, or anthems, at all? I know it’s the tradition to do so, but it’s a friggin’ baseball game, not a Memorial Day ceremony.
I like baseball just fine. And stayed up way too late Monday/Tuesday night because of it, despite not really having a rooting interest (well, maybe a little against the Dodgers). But I don’t pretend it’s anything more than a pastime, national pastime though it may be.
But that’s a fair point about playing the anthem in the first place. Once you start doing it, in this case due to WWII, it’s difficult to stop without accusations of insufficient patriotism, which, if heeded, is a step on that slippery slope towards nationalism
We’ve already taken one step down that slope: accusing fans of insufficient patriotism for not standing during the singing of an Irving Berlin show tune.
As an atheist, I friggin’ HATE God Bless America, which replaced Take Me Out to the Ball Game after 9/11. Fortunately, it’s mostly fallen away, though it still pops up now and then. I usually take the opportunity to go get a beer or take a piss or something.
He is NOT super Catholic boy. He went from atheist to baptized just in time to run for the Senate in 2022.
He’s more white Christian nationalist than Roman Catholic, and they couldn’t give two shits about divorce. By being married to a heathen Hindu, he’s what they called “unequally yoked.” He’s already laying the groundwork to get out of this marriage by wishing out loud about Usha’s lack of Christian faith.
If he wants to beat out Little Marco for the title of heir to the Golden Throne, hitching himself to the white beautiful blonde Evangelical Widow Kirk just might push him into the lead.
They could be, yet they’d be a coast-to-coast “state” about the size of California (EV vote-wise). Yet if the whole country is a “state” they only get 2 senators and about whatever Electoral Votes and Representatives as California. Annexed as a territory they cannot vote.
Any way you look at annexing Canada is a war. Europe cannot help as the Navy will have sealed any ocean voyages west of Iceland.
Trump has all the wars he thinks he put an end to in his imagination. He does not want to start a war with Canada just to get their Arctic oil rights. Greenland should be enough.
Then this is exactly why he will do it. It is the most illogical, counterproductive action he could take, it will piss off the most people and countries, and it will destabilize the world. That is what Putin wants, and Trump is Putin’s useful idiot.
