TO: All.Fan.Gen
From: Anonymous


In memoria of those who have died fighting the Boskone
To those who still their silent battle fight.

We remember and salute you...
who did not go quiet into that night.

Has Doug ever seen (or heard of) the 1988 George Lucas / Ron Howard movie Willow?

It should be obvious where I'm going with this...

So, Roy "Ten Commandments Judge" Moore has been accused of molesting at least one underage girl.  I don't possess sufficient confirmed information to make a judgment on whether the charge is true.  But the reaction from Republican officials in Alabama is appalling enough for any civilized human being ... which apparently excludes Alabama Republicans.

I was particularly fascinated by the statement from Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler, 

Quote:who dismissed the allegations by saying that there was also an age gap between the biblical Joseph and Mary. “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” he told The Washington Examiner. “There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.”

Quote:The chairman of the Bibb County Republican Party, Jerry Pow, said that he’d vote for Moore even if it was proved he committed a sex crime against an underage girl. 

Quote:So, you think a little thing like this is going to stop Alabamans from electing Moore? MAGA: Molesting Alabama's girls -- attaboy!

I know we do this every year, but that's because it's worth doing. Please take a moment to remember the veterans - especially the ones who didn't come home.

In Flanders Fields - in Mi'kmaq

A Pittance of Time
https://youtu.be/2kX_3y3u5Uo

The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson to create his own Star Wars trilogy

Has anybody else directed an entire Star Wars trilogy before?

Just click the link right here and see what damnfoolishness the boss has been thinking of when he should otherwise be doing productive work. It's all very stream-of-consciousness and getting updated on the fly, which FYI is why I'm not just dumping the document to a post here and being done with it. Nothing is in stone, nothing binding etc. It should be set to allow viewers to add comments, so feel free to put your two cents in.

xoxo,
Za Fun Tyranto

US domestic, er, foreign spying bill progresses through Congress

What's he done?

He's signed 58 bills into law, including such memorable legislation as HR 609 (an act to designate a health care centre in Butler County, PA as the "Abie Abraham VA Clinic") and HR 534 (the U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act). Not a record - Jimmy Carter signed 70 acts into law in his first year. Okay, HR510 is important... but it's no "new health care plan" or "start building a wall".

The stock market went up 21% year-over-year. In the first year of John F. Kennedy's presidency, the stock market went up 26.5%; in the first year of George H. W. Bush's presidency, it went up 22.7%. So, good but not record-setting.

The U.S. unemployment rate is about where it was under the last year of Obama's administration. The percentage is lower, but the number of jobs created is also lower. So, no real change there.

Trump's taken almost as many days off in his first year (60) as Jimmy Carter took in his entire administration (79).

More people dislike him than like him. That's a record for the end of the first year of a presidency - even Bill Clinton was liked by more people than disliked him at the end of his first year. (Granted, the numbers only go back 70 years, to Harry Truman.) Also, his overall approval rating has been trending downward since day 15 of his presidency.

And, according to the Toronto Star (the newspaper of record in the largest city in Canada), he's been caught lying an average of 2.9 times a day - 835 times in his first 290 days in office. Here's the list.

Theme song from The Greatest American Hero.  IF Doug has, in his travels, seen any of this show, the song will probably give Superman's basic power-set, because that's what the main character of TGAH had.  If he hasn't seen it, the lyrics will probably only let a person walk on air or maybe actually fly, as the refrain says.  Three minutes eleven seconds run time, according to Wikipedia; but the version I've linked to only runs three minutes eight.


Music: Mike Post
Lyrics: Stephen Geyer
Performed by: Joey Scarbury

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself;
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
Should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

Just like the light of new day,
It hit me from out of the blue;
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in,
Makin' all of my wishes come true.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

This is too good to be true,
Look at me
Falling for you.

Believe it or not,
Believe it or not,
Believe it or not,
Believe it or not.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

...So, in the NY/NJ area at least, virtually all Democratic candidates won over Republicans.  I also saw that the Virginia governor's race -- which is apparently an important bellwether, and for which Trump did last-minute campaigning -- went to the Democratic candidate, too.  I haven't checked the national news yet this morning to see if this was an overall trend, or just local, but still, anyone want to bet on how quickly the first tweets about voter fraud are going to come from the White House?