Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Helicopter had a "hard landing" carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Lost in the fog when Allah repositioned a mountain.



The Economist: "Nothing is ever as it seems in Iranian politics, though, and many Iranians have begun to speculate about more nefarious explanations. Mr Raisi has a long list of internal enemies, from the relative moderates he has marginalised to the fellow conservatives who think he has been an inept president. It is not unreasonable to wonder if domestic foes conspired to kill him."




Nuclear messaging...

NNSA completes subcritical experiment at PULSE facility in Nevada May 16, 2024
Note: wonder if it puffed / burped plutonium this time?


NNSA completes subcritical experiment at PULSE facility in Nevada


Meanwhile...

"North Korea threatened Monday to take powerful deterrent action against what it claims is the U.S. nuclear threat, denouncing Washington for its recent subcritical nuclear test."
N. Korea slams U.S. subcritical nuclear test, vows measures to bolster nuclear deterrence


May 19, 1897: Leading playwright, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde more commonly known as Oscar Wilde, was released from Reading Gaol, after serving a 2-year sentence with hard labour on charges of homosexuality. His reputation and health never recovered. He went to live in Paris and died there in 1900.


Like Wilde, well-known recent cults of personality such as late Anthony Bourdain, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, and others have also built their reputations by promoting what it is that makes each of them special. In the eternal words of the Irish author, Oscar Wilde, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."


The Remarkable Rocket cartoon short narrated by David Niven originally made in 1975 and based on the story by Oscar Wilde. The story is a parody of aristocratic vanity and masculine conceit, although is written in simple language, the humor is directed at adults. As an incentive for you to take some time out of your busy day to watch it, and in the finest tradition of click-baiting, forward to 5 minutes and 25 seconds. You might be convinced it's akin to a certain politician.




When the Army began to relieve Marines on Guadalcanal in 1942, they landed with trucks full of food. Spotting an opportunity, a Marine yelled "Air raid!" As soldiers ran for cover, hungry Marines poured out of the jungle and drove off with the trucks of food. Dunno if that sea story is true, but Marines are well known to be resourceful!




May 19, 1943: then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) planned the D-Day invasion during a meeting at the White House. Originally scheduled for May 1, 1944, this Allied cross-channel invasion of northern France became the largest naval, air, and land operation in history. Despite efforts to speed up the attack to prevent the Axis powers from gaining an advantage, the initial date was considered premature and was moved to June 6, 1944, five weeks later.


Look Winston... No!

Not at me! Out There!

See that river?


Hold on...I thought this happens every summer.


NOAA’s Climate Crystal Ball Prediction Center


Ukrainian Throne of Drones. Looks like something out of Game of Thrones.


Project Safe Skies  ("The Westeros Wing" is an official photoshopped photo that was posted by the Obama White House.


May 19, 2019: The last episode of Game of Thrones was broadcast by HBO. It was created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO, adapted from A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. There were 8 series and 73 episodes since April 17, 2011.

The drone competition/consumption on steroids is like the cold war era of nukes.





The more things change, the more things stay insane.

"Journalism possesses in itself the potentiality of becoming one of the most frightful monstrosities and delusions that have ever cursed mankind. This horrible transformation will occur at the exact instant at which journalists realise that they can become an aristocracy. In theory they are the popular voices, the very quintessence, as it were, of the common point of view. But do not let us forget that this was in an even greater degree true of the priests."

— G. K. Chesterton "The New Priests" (1901)