New Horizons team unravels the many mysteries of Ultima Thule

Phys.org
March 18, 2019


The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing it's secrets, as scientists piece together the secrets of Ultima Thule - the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New Year's Day, four billion miles from Earth.

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Ultima Thule is the first unquestionably primordial contact binary ever explored.
Approach pictures of Ultima Thule hinted at a strange, snowman-like shape for the binary, but further analysis of images, taken near closest approach - New Horizons came to within just 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) - have uncovered just how unusual the KBO's shape really is.
At 22 miles long, Ultima Thule consists of a large, flat lobe [nicknamed "Ultima"] connected to a smaller, rounder lobe [nicknamed "Thule"].

The strange shape is the biggest surprise, so far, of the flyby.
"We've never seen anything like this anywhere in the solar system," said New Horizon's Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado.
"It is sending the planetary science community back to the drawing board to understand how planetesimals - the building blocks of the planets - form."

More + video:
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-horizons-team-unravels-mysteries-ultima.html

Post a line from a song & see if anyone knows the song without using Google - Part 9

1) "When you see your ship go sailin'..When you feel your heart is breakin'"

2) "You been runnin' all over town now...Oh, I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground" (answered)

3) "Oh yeah, she don't stand no cheatin'...She don't stand none of that midnight creepin'"

4) "Gonna see my baby, see my baby fine..Wanna take my baby, wanna take my baby mine"

5) "I tried to tell the woman, But she doesn't believe a word I say..Go light pretty baby, Gonna need my help some day"

6) "Two girls for every boy" (answered)

7) "There was a rumor, about a tumor...Nestled at the base of his brain" (answered)

8) "When you are near me, my heart skips a beat..I can hardly stand on, My own two feet"

9) "Well, I went up on the mountain, I looked down in the sea..I saw the crabs and the fishes. doing the B-Bop-B"

10) "I see a woman in the night..With a baby in her hand...Under an old street light...Near a garbage can" (answered)

11) "Baby let me play your eighty-eights, I'm gonna bang 'til the whole house rocks" (answered)

12) "Would you believe, that yesterday...She was in my arms and swore to me..She'd be mine eternally" (answered)

13) "I was cruising in my Sting Ray late one night" (answered)

14) "Once they got you, Man they'll never let you go"

15) "Since she left me, I haven't been the same"

16) "If you wanna be somebody else...If you're tired of fightin' battles with yourself...If you wanna be somebody else.."

17) "She handles all the big ones every year in Makaha...And all the surfers know her from here to Baja" (answered)

18) "I've been on the road nearly all my life...Been 'round the world 'bout a thousand times" (answered)

19) "If you don't come soon, I'll be wearing a shroud" (same band as # 14)

20) "She's a melody in search of the words "I love you,' She's a rose, with no room to grow..She's a light in the night with nowhere to shine.."

21) "I wake up every morning about 7 O'Clock...Catch the 9:02 and I make several stops"

22) "Thought you're nearest to my heart..Please don't ever say we'll part"

23) "Well, I love you so..And, I'll never let you go"

24) "What you gonna do tonight, When you need some lovin' hands to hold you tight"

25) "To save my soul I can't get a date..Baby's got it tuned on channel 8"



Unanswered lines from Part 8
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181185372

Rescuer Spotted This Dog Crying On The Roadside Then She Saw What Was Tied Around It's Neck

This dog had given up on life...then a miracle happened!

Happy Birthday Carl Reiner!

Carl Reiner, born March 20, 1922, is an American comedian, actor, director and writer whose career spans seven decades.

In the 1950's, he co-wrote and acted on "Caesar's Hour" and "Your Show of Shows' starring Sid Caesar.
In the 1960's, Reiner was known as the creator, producer, writer and actor on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"

He also had great success as a film director and writer, and in the 1970's and 1980's co-wrote and directed some of Steve Martin's most successful films, including "The Jerk"

He directed 15 films and wrote the screenplay for 7 films.

Reiner is a lifelong Democrat.
He endorsed Bernie Sanders for President in 2016.

He's written several books, including his 2004 memoir;
"My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir"

At 97, he is one of the oldest celebrities active on Twitter.

Happy Birthday, Carl Reiner!

Great Rob Reiner tweet about his dad and Spanky

Twitter
March 20, 2019

Rob Reiner
@robreiner

"97 years ago today my father was born..He served in WW2..He was on TV before we owned a TV..He's won 12 Emmys..He loved my mother for 65 years..He has 3 kids & 5 grandkids that he loves..He is my hero..I love him.
The best gift he could get would be the removal of the WH cancer"
https://twitter.com/robreiner

Trump Officials Take Bold Steps on Medicaid

The Hill
March 20, 2019


The Trump administration is pulling out all the stops to encourage red states to make conservative changes to Medicaid without Congressional input.

Administration officials are pushing ahead and granting approvals to states seeking to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, even in the face of legal challenges and large-scale losses in the number of people covered.

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) granted Ohio's request for work requirements, the ninth such approval since Trump took office.

The approval was announced just one day after administration lawyers were in federal court defending the work requirements for two other states, Arkansas and Kentucky.

"To approve it the day after the court hearing was pretty in-your-face," said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
"It's a statement of 'we're going to push forward with our policy regardless of what a judge thinks.' "

Read more:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/434834-trump-officials-take-bold-steps-on-medicaid

Post a line from a movie & see if anyone knows the movie without using Google-Part XXll

1) "More tea, anyone?" (answered)

2) "Oh, Johnny..I apologize...I forgot you were there...You may go now" (answered)

3) "WE'VE GOT A BLEEDER!!" (answered)

4) "I'm about to enter 'Little Old Lady Land'" (answered)

5) "Daphne had a proposal last night!" (answered)

6) "It's like, how much more black could this be?..And the answer is 'none'..None more black!" (answered)

7) [Reply to: "It tastes a little funky"] - "That's because it's from Debbie's left breast, Greg" (answered)

8) "I was building a house!" (answered)

9) "For years I wouldn't kiss her face, now I'm kissing her ass!" (answered)

10) "Are you saying there's something wrong with my gear?"

11) "Put...the..candle...back" (answered)

12) "I'm from Miami fucking Beach, and you want to show me the ocean, huh?" (answered)

13) "I lied ya, baby...I lieb ya...I lieb ya....Now lieb me alone!" (answered)

14) "Take it easy, Ned...But take it!"

15) "e.g...i.e...Fuck you!" (answered)

16) "I got kicked out of school...Aren't the new neighbors nice?...I got vodka!"

17) "Those aren't pillows!" (answered)

18) "You puked on my printer!" (answered)

19) "I am the author, you are the audience...I outrank you!!" (answered)

20) "Back when you and Sarabeth were still married, that last year.....She and I were fucking" (answered)

21) "Muskrat, Jack!"

22) "I think I'm Jewish."

23) "Are you fucking with me?"

24) "No one ever called me Leo before...Even in kindergarten they called me Bloom" (answered)

25) "Tick-Toc, Doc"

26) "You touched my brick?"

27) "Hey, Pinocchio, Where are YOU going?"

28) "I AM in a world of shit!" (answered)

29) "Where is pancakes house?" (answered)

30) "It's my project!"

31) "Five!...I killed five of 'em" (answered)

32) "When Bones finds out what you did, he's gonna take everything, including the sporty little hat on your head"

33) "OVER THE LINE!!" (answered)

34) "Wallace Beery..Wrestling picture...What do you need, a road map?" (answered)

35) "Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it"

36) "Well, I saw everybody else lining up, so, uh (lowers voice) I thought you were selling drugs"

37) "I'm gonna just sit here and enjoy my coffee!" (answered)

38) "In California, you just plop a seed into the ground, you find a sprout the very next day"

39) "Don't ever, ever, ever call me stupid!" (answered)

40) "We can't travel in that shit heap!"

41) "Can I have me paper back?"

42) "You'll always be 'Shorty' to me"

43) "Put..the coffee..back..in.,the cup!"

44) "You can smoke this?" (answered)

45) "I feel like I'm insane!"

46) "Is your granny spry?"

46) "We'll never find it, huh?...We'll never find it, huh?..We'll never find it, huh?"

47) "I've never seen that!...I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and then bang the hell out of it with a stick...I've never seen that!"

48) "Well, I wasn't born with your hand in my bush."

49) "Are you off your fucking meds or something?"

50) "Is that my phone?" (recurring line)

51) "Two Wongs don't make a white"

52) "Blanche, John, Grandma, talk to him, will 'ya?..Stay quiet, be quiet, will 'ya?"

53) "Don't be talking about the shit bucket in front of strangers!"

54) "I could tell you stories that would curl your hair, but it looks like you've already heard them" (answered)

55) "Is everybody gay? Is this a Twilight Zone?"

56) "What do you want to do tonight, Angie?"

57) "His entire body is bloodshot!"

58) "I've got news reels in my head!"

59) "Sidney, give my favorite crooked lawyer here a drink!" (answered)

60) "Pass the celery"

61) "Roy Gillis is in town!" (answered)

The Russian Mob, under Trump, has infiltrated Witness Protection

Twitter
Patrick Simpson
@patricksimpson
March 14, 2019

BREAKING NEWS:
The Russian Mob, under Trump, has infiltrated Witness Protection


In October, 2017, Curt Weldon joined the board of advisers for Monarch Air Group, which had just completed it's first contract with the Justice Department's Witness Security Division.

Monarch Air is a known Russian mob front.

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Why would the Trump Administration's Department of Justice allow a company that operates as a front for the Russian mob anywhere near the sacred halls of Witness Protection, not once, but twice?
What was going on in June 2017 and January 2018 that warranted these contacts?

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Monarch is significant because of the ties it represents.

In USA v. Alimzon Tokhtakhounov, Attorney Joshua Naftalis made a matter of fact statement that the defendants were using Monarch to funnel money and drugs on behalf of the Russian Mafia.


https://twitter.com/patrickLSimpson/status/1106271952887525377

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out NRA After New Zealand Shootings

"What Good Are Your Thoughts And Prayers?"

Newsweek.com
March 15, 2019


Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the NRA after the mass shootings at two New Zealand Mosques that left at least 49 people dead and 20 injured, asking what good was offering thoughts and prayers when "they don't even keep the pews safe?"

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardem said the attacks at the mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers could now "only be described as a terrorist attack."

Four people, three men and one woman, were taken into custody in connection with the attack, with at least one male suspect confirmed to be an Australian-born citizen.
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the suspect was an "extremist right-wing terrorist."

Disturbing footage made by one of the suspects showed him live-streaming the attack as he repeatedly shot his victims.
Police urged people not to share the "extremely distressing" footage.

More:
https://www.newsweek.com/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nra-1364093