Typhoon From Space

Amazing photos at the link.

Typhoon Maysak taken by Samantha Cristoforetti

Typhoon Maysak: Dramatic photos taken from space show category-five storm moving towards Philippines

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have taken dramatic photos showing super Typhoon Maysak as it moves towards the Philippines.

Micronesia Red Cross says the typhoon has killed at least nine people — all in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) — as it has swept across the north-west Pacific. 

Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut, photographed the category-five storm system as the ISS passed over the Pacific.~snip~

 It never fails to astound me how powerful and awesome the weather is on our planet.

My Take on "Interstellar"

OK, first off I don't go to theaters anymore to see movies I buy them sometimes but mostly I wait and stream them.
If it's a movie I'm really interested in then I'll rent it on Amazon other than that I wait for it to show up on Netflix.
So last night I watched "Interstellar " on Amazon.
What the movie boils down to is the earth is dying, surprisingly no global warming lectures, and a reconstituted NASA sends ships through a worm hole that appears around Saturn.

It's a long one at 2 hours and 49 minutes. Matthew McConaughey plays a farmer/pilot and if you liked him in the Lincoln commercials then you'll like him in this. Anne Hathaway plays a scientist/love interest .......she was OK I guess.

I enjoyed the science aspect, black holes, time dilation, worm holes etc. although there was some artistic license through the move.
I don't want to give to much away because I grade movies on whether they're worth the time used to watch them and IMO this one is.

Check it out.

The Great Gay Wedding Pizza Controversy:Update

You gotta wonder just how petty and absurd things are going to get over this whole Indiana RFRA law.

I get the feeling that ABC sent out a email to all of its Indiana affiliates demanding that they find some example of a business who not only approved of the law but makes clear that their religious conscience would keep them from serving a "gay" wedding.
Well ABC57 found one in a small town.

RFRA: Michiana business wouldn't cater a gay wedding

WALKERTON, Ind. - A small-town pizza shop is saying they agree with Governor Pence and the signing of the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The O'Connor family, who owns Memories Pizza, says they have a right to believe in their religion and protect those ideals.
“If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” says Crystal O'Connor of Memories Pizza.
She and her family are standing firm in their beliefs.
The O'Connors have owned Memories Pizza in Walkerton for 9 years.
It's a small-town business, with small-town ideals.
“We are a Christian establishment,” says O'Connor.
The O'Connor family prides themselves in owning a business that reflects their religious beliefs.
“We're not discriminating against anyone, that's just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in anything,” says O'Connor.  

So, when Governor Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law, the family was not disappointed.
“We definitely agree with the bill,” says O'Connor.
~snip~

Pizza?
Who in the hell has catered pizza at a wedding reception?
As always the leftist media is making much ado about nothing in order to advance an agenda,making news instead of reporting it.
Makes you wonder how hard they had to look in the entire state to find this one little business in this one little town to get this "story".

Ah here you go.
Forced to close because they hypothetically refused to cater a hypothetical reception for a hypothetical "gay" wedding.

Harry "da weasel" Reid has no regrets

Megan Kelly seems to be shocked......shocked I tell you that Harry Reid doesn't regret the weaselly little lies he told about Mitt Romney.

Megyn: 'Just Disgusting' That Harry Reid Doesn't Regret Romney Tax Claim

Megyn Kelly tonight slammed Harry Reid for saying he has no regrets about his false claim that then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney hadn’t paid his taxes.
CNN’s Dana Bash asked the then-Senate majority leader about his 2012 remark that Romney hadn't paid his taxes in 12 years.
“So no regrets about Mitt Romney, about the Koch brothers, because people have even called it McCarthyite," Bash asked.
“Well, they can call it whatever they want,” Reid said. “Romney didn't win, did he?”~snip~

Personally I'd be shocked if it was ever proven that the little rodent ever told the truth.

Video at the link.

Don't Blame the IRS....they just don't like us

Remember when we had a responsive government....yeah me neither.

IRS ignoring 60 percent of taxpayers’ calls as deadline looms

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that service at his agency has gotten so bad that they are ignoring more than 60 percent of taxpayers’ phone calls during this tax season.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr. Koskinen pleaded with more money, saying a budget boost would help them staff their overwhelmed customer service lines. He also said it would help reverse staffing cuts in their compliance division, where he said the government will lose $2 billion this year in money it would otherwise have been able to collect if it had better staffing.
Congress has cut or held the agency’s funding static for several years now, with lawmakers deeming the agency recalcitrant in solving problems, and unrepentant for having targeted tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny.~snip~

Need I remind everyone what happens if we ignore the IRS?
Unless you're a race pimp and Obama is our BFF.

Now it's Two Times the Hysteria

You do realize of course that for the liberal MSM there will be no further events in the world until the Arkansas and Indiana legislatures buckle under to their demands.

Defying Criticism, Arkansas Legislature Passes Bill on Religious Freedom

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Despite intensifying criticism from business leaders both within and outside of Arkansas, the state legislature on Tuesday passed its version of a measure billed as a religious freedom law, joining Indiana in a swirl of controversy that shows little sign of calming.
The Arkansas bill, passed when the General Assembly concurred on three amendments from the State Senate, now goes to the state’s Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, who expressed reservations about an earlier bill but more recently said he would sign the measure if it “reaches my desk in similar form as to what has been passed in 20 other states.” The Arkansas Senate passed the measure last week.
While there were several attempts up until the last minute to add a clause to the bill that would explicitly bar discrimination of gays and lesbians, a measure that Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana pledged to push through his Legislature, the sponsors of the bill in the Arkansas General Assembly rejected such moves.
”If you start shaving out exemptions in laws, next thing you know, you’ll gut the law because everyone will want an exemption,” said State Senator Bart Hester, an Arkansas Republican and one of the bill’s lead supporters.
The attention turns to Governor Hutchinson, a moderate Republican who ran on a jobs platform and managed to extend a tailored form of Medicaid expansion in this Republican-controlled state. One of the state’s biggest employers, Walmart, called on the governor to veto the bill.~snip~

 Scandal after scandal with this administration and there's crickets from the liberal media yet when states reassert the 1st amendment they go bugshit.

Where the MSM Stands

It truly is exhausting to have to constantly point out the deliberate deflection of the news by the liberal media.
Here we have a story of a presidential contender possibly committing multiple felonies and the media focuses on the state of Indiana that BTW elected a republican as governor.

Nets Devote 3x More Time to Indiana Law Than Hillary E-Mail Server Wipe

The stunning revelation that Hillary Clinton wiped her personal e-mail server clean is the kind of political cover-up that should have sent the networks into overdrive, except they had an even more important agenda to advance: smearing an entire state and its Republican governor as anti-gay bigots.  From the morning of March 27 through March 30 evening the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks spent only 10 minutes and 15 seconds to the admission by Clinton’s own attorney that her State Department e-mails were wiped from the server that had been subpoenaed by Congress, but they devoted a whopping 35 minutes and 1 seconds to coverage of the Indiana religious freedom law.~snip~

The media want's to ensure that very few remember Hillary's emails.
I've always enjoyed fiction which is why I still watch the evening news, a habit I acquired back in the days when there were only 3 channels on TV and no net so I've seen first hand how the alphabet channels have changed.
They've become even more biased, the propaganda arm of the democrat party.