During the Second World War, American combat planes were equipped with big machine guns that were used to fire incessantly at targets. To solve the problem of having to reload the machine guns frequently, the bullets for the gun were packed into heavy chains called gun belts that were twenty-seven feet (8.2 meters), or nine yards long. When the plane’s crew encountered targets that were particularly challenging, they sometimes had to fire the entire gun belt at just that one target. They began to refer to this as “giving the adversary the full nine yards.” This became a common expression among service members and veterans after the war.
In the 1960’s, an athlete named Ralph Boston broke the world long jump record by jumping twenty-seven feet and half an inch (8.3 meters.) This was widely reported under the headline “Boston Goes The Whole Nine Yards!” It was after this report that the phrase gained wide usage. Today, “to go the whole nine yards” is commonly used to mean “to go all the way” or “to take full measure.”
This Real ID Law must have died a slow death. I had to present a birth certificate, Social Security Card, and one piece of mail with my address on it in 2015 to renew my license.
The Plan Ahead Editor: Do you know about ‘The law of unintended consequences’, LL ?
The For Sure Cat: I sure do, anyone who pays attention to what is going on can tell what will happen. Waymo should have known that Americans are too lazy or self-absorbed to close their car doors
The D.C. Mayor and Council have been so busy with their Black Lives Matter street graffiti, you could see it from space, before it was removed when Trump won a second term. Another hot item was not punishing criminals. They have been worried about the wrong thing.
Explanation: What does the universe look like through infrared goggles? Our eyes can only see visible light, but astronomers want to see more. Today’s APOD shows spiral galaxyIC 5332 as seen by two NASA telescopes: Webb in mid-infrared and Hubble in ultraviolet and visible light. To toggle between the two space-based views just slide your cursor over the image (or follow this link). The Hubble image highlights the spiral arms of the galaxy separated by dark regions, whereas the Webb image reveals a finer, more tangled structure. Interstellar dust scatters and absorbs light from the stars in the galaxy, causing the dark dust lanes in the Hubble image, and then emits heat in infrared light, so dust glows in this Webb image. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument on Webb needs to operate at a chilling temperature of -266ºC (or – 447ºF), otherwise it would detect infrared radiation from the telescope itself. Combining these observations, astronomers connect the “small scale” of gas and stars to the truly large scale of galactic structure and evolution.
Let us talk about the definition of Common Sense, Morals and Good Values; I would say they all work together. It is so Simple, if you are a Republican, you have Common Sense. If you are a DemocRat you have none. Remember last year’s State of the Union; they showed their true colors. It is so easy to see. Last year they could not stand for a young boy fighting Cancer, whom President Trump recognized. This year they could not Recognize the Olympic Gold winning Hockey team, the family of a young woman who had her throat slashed on a train on her way home after work, or a 5-year-old girl seriously injured in an auto accident involving an illegal commercial driver. A very touching one was the 100-year-old Veteran; he was a WW2 Navy aviator fighter pilot who flew over 220 missions in 1952. He was in the dog fight of his life and took down four Soviet fighter planes. He took 263 bullets to his plane and was seriously hurt. Our First Lady placed the Congressional Medal of Honor around his neck. That was a beautiful moment. There were more beautiful moments. What I am getting to is that these were things that should truly stir your heart, move you in some way, and yet the most heartless DemocRats were not moved to “Clap or Stand in Honor”, in recognition of those incredible people.
On the other hand, let’s reverse this picture. I suppose if it had been a mental black man who slashed the young women’s throat on the city train, the illegal commercial truck driver that severely hurt a 5-year-old girl in a crash, the killer of Charlie Kirk, or the Soviet pilots had shot down the American Aviator, If these people had been honored then all the DemocRats on the floor would have stood up and applauded. It tells me that they will not stand for the right thing. It tells me that they have no morals, or values, for the hard-working American people. They will always stand for the Illegals. If you are old enough, you may remember in 1966 there was a movie titled The Good the Bad and the Ugly; Clint Eastwood was the star and he was The Good. Now they could do a remake of that Movie, and the DemocRat Congress and Senate are the Bad and the Ugly showing what they are up to every day, busy fighting their own people, the good.
Why are people voting these half brain nuts into these important offices? Look at Mamdani of New York. They all stood behind him and supported him. They were all smiles and shaking their heads up and down. The other day I saw how that love affair is going sour. Many people of color that voted him in, are now saying, “you are making everything go up, you were supposed to help us out.” I say you were very stupid, listened to a lying man with no experience and with radical ideas. What’s wrong with You?
I say to you. We have a President that is making our Country better for the American people every day. Even creating Trump accounts for our new born children. If we ever let those half brain DemocRats get back in Power, this country will go downhill like an Avalanche. We will be taken over by People like Ilhan Omar, Mamdani, AOC and her expert opinions in foreign affairs, and the great salad speaker Kamala Harris. DEI will live strong again. Do I need to say more, it would be a demonic mess.