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September 02, 2012
Overnight Open Thread (9-2-2012)Welcome to the official Pre-Labor Day ONT party. As always pants are optional. Leaked: Full Secret Agenda of the Democrat National Convention Heh. Apparently the ritual stoning of the Boy Scouts and candlelight memorial for the victims of Mitt Romney have been moved to later in the week. 2012 Democrat National Convention Too Good to Check: The Obamas are planning to move to a modest $35million home in Hawaii in Jan 2013.
The NYT Keeps Repeating Old Lies About This Photo Despite the fact that the plane that dropped the napalm was flown by a South Vietnamese pilot it's always America's fault somehow: It has taken more than three months, but the New York Times today published a sort-of correction of its erroneous description about the napalm attack in Vietnam in June 1972 that preceded the famous photograph of children terrified and wounded by the bombing." Plus this: "[T]he phrasing - 'while the planes that carried out the attack were "American planes" in the sense that they were made in the United States, they were flown by the South Vietnamese Air Force, not American forces' - makes it sound like a bunch of teenagers borrowing daddy's car." Longtime ONT readers will also know what happened to girl shown in the photo. 'Hold Down the Fort' Now Officially Racist? Well at least according to the State Department's PC department because it might offend native americans: How many times have you or a colleague asked if someone could "hold down the fort?" For example, "Could you hold down the fort while I go to." You were likely asking someone to watch the office while you go and do something else, but the phrase's historical connotation to some is negative and racially offensive. To "hold down the fort" originally meant to watch and protect against the vicious Native American intruders. In the territories of the West, Army soldiers or settlers saw the "fort" as their refuge from their perceived "enemy," the stereotypical "savage" Native American tribes. Except when you actually look at the history of the phrase, there's zero evidence that it ever was used in reference to indian attacks. In fact the earliest American usage seems to have come from the Civil War when Gen. Sherman relieved a trapped Union force near Atlanta: Many had fallen, and the result seemed to render a prolongation of the fight hopeless. At this moment an officer caught sight of a white signal flag far away across the valley, twenty miles distant, upon the top of Kenesaw Mountain. The signal was answered, and soon the message was waved across from mountain to mountain: Yet another case where administrators turn to their own inner racist for the etymology of phrases. Apparently this is supposed to show the decline of America or something. But to me the growth seems steady and organic - which is a sign that Walmart is doing something right and has a winning formula. Watch Neil Armstrong Escape Death The LLRV (Lunar Lander Research Vehicle) was a notoriously dangerous yet effective trainer for practicing landing on the moon. Here in 1968 due to winds and a propellant leak Armstrong was forced to eject with less than a second to spare. But that was just another day for him. In his Armstrong biography First Man, author James Hansen recounts how astronaut Alan Bean saw Armstrong that afternoon at his desk in the astronaut office. Bean then heard colleagues in the hall talking about the accident, and asked them, "When did this happen?" About an hour ago, they replied. Bean returned to Armstrong and said, "I just heard the funniest story!" Armstrong said, "What?" "I heard that you bailed out of the LLTV an hour ago." "Yeah, I did," replied Armstrong. "I lost control and had to bail out of the darn thing." "I can't think of another person," Bean recalls, "let alone another astronaut, who would have just gone back to his office after ejecting a fraction of a second before getting killed."You can watch the full clip here. Plus the one thing that gave Armstrong nightmares before the mission. So Why Can't You Wear White After Labor Day? Short answer: To show that you aren't nouveau riche. While no one is completely sure exactly when or why this fashion rule came into effect, our best guess is that it had to do with snobbery in the late 1800s. Do NOT Taunt LeeAnn Rimes on Twitter Or else she'll track you down and berate you over the phone. To recap: LeAnn Rimes is an unstable lunatic who is on twitter 24 hours a day, mostly to argue with anyone who calls her names. One of those people was a teacher in California named Kimberly Smiley, who then stopped following Rimes. But Rimes had more to say, so she called Smiley at home and cursed for 20 minutes. Smiley recorded part of the call and put it online here. And then sue you for recording her berating. Rimes filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Kimberly Smiley and her daughter Lexi Smiley secretly recorded a telephone conversation "to spitefully ensure that out-of-context excerpts of that recording would be disseminated to the public on various websites" and to portray Rimes "in an egregiously false and negative light and cause her emotional distress." Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings Top 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by energy jello shots made easy: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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