BLUE TRUCKS MATTER

The jackass who parked this truck in front of the auto parts store yesterday clearly thought that Blue Trucks Matter and he didn't hesitate to show his dedication to the worthy cause by taking up 4 parking spots in front of the building he came roaring out of just as I was snapping this picture as he delivered his Parthian shots over his shoulder to the workers inside whom he castigated and rounded on in the most hateful matter that only a BLM sympathizer could appreciate as he screamed abuse at them and headed for his blue symbol of BTM.

BTM JACKASS

I've seldom seen such privilege and disdain for ordinary mortals as what is expressed by the BLM crowd and this guy was pretty typical for the type I BLM activist.

NEAREST STAR RENAMED

I was reading somewhere today that the International Astronomical Union had taken the trouble to organize themselves a body of concerned people to sit down and rename the stars. They did it for the best of reasons; they tell us. They claim that by simply renaming stars it would eliminate the confusion people have who cannot tell stars apart because the spelling is different and that throws off navigators, astronomers, birds and concerned people.

This doesn't really effect us but they decided to rename one star in particular. The nearest star is to be renamed in order to eliminate all that dashed confusion and concern. Alpha Centauri will now bask in the light of its new name, Rigil Kentaurus. Read it and weep.

It seems easy enough doesn't it? They have named it Rigil Kentaurus. Nothing could be simpler. All one has to do is change all the text books, all the navigation publications and stellar almanacs, nautical almanacs, air almanacs, star charts, etc and match the old star with its new name.

Space.com shared the name change in its report of 28 November 2016. I'm just a slow reader.

I'm never gonna remember its new name, but that's OK. Rigil Kentaurus is not visible anywhere north of North 29° Latitude. The last time I saw it was in 1984. I'll have to go a long way out of the way to see it again. In the meantime, I can tell people that I saw Alpha Centauri before it went away.

CHANGE

We, who are not narcissists and who don't look into mirrors all that much, fail to pay attention. An ordinary seeming lady asked me the other day for my hair color and I said brown. I figured it was close enough for government work.

I don't care. It's always been brown and is still brownish and 40 years later it still won't lie down and I don't care.

Some of us plan to age gracefully and others never thought we would grow old.

The Three Captains and a Major

MS. DUNHAM CLAIMS MRS. CLINTON IS A RACIST BIGOTED HOMOPHOBE

Did you ever wonder how people with names seen in the press everyday react to the constant drumbeat launched by other, more famous people who share their name? Me neither.

We here at Defiant share the name with a movie of all things.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Can a man born to a poor family in Bavaria be described as a poor southern boy?

THINK ABOUT THE EVIL

From his cottage to you.