Trump Speech Open Thread
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Just as an aside, we have the US beloved clown and Vice-President down here on the fringes of civilisation, in a goodwill visit, and to shore up NZ support for the US presence in the Pacific now that China is trying to steal the Spratly Islands and various other atols in the South China sea.
He has offered a non-nuclear powered warship to come to attend the 75th.anniversary of the Royal NZ Navy celebrations in a month or two time. You may recall the anti-nuclear stance that the NZ government of the time took in the 1980’s which prevented the USA visiting our shores due to their “neither confirm nor deny” nuclear policy. This embargo has been been lifted by degrees over the past decade or so and has now been discarded.
All good.
Can’t i’m watching star trek tonight.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in tonight’s production of “Good versus Evil”, the part of Good will be portrayed by Also Evil.
Nate, do you get Heroes & Icons Network? You probably wouldn’t know it if you do. Mostly classic westerns and Hill Street Blues. I get them on broadcast. Anyway, they just got the rights to all five Star Trek shows, and they’re starting them on their schedule this Sunday.
Thx pinky!
Quick review: best of the new. At current rate movie six will be worthy of the name Star Trek.
This Sunday, all five pilot episodes of Star Trek will be shown. Imagine, five chances to hear the exact same speech: “You aliens may be smarter than we are, but humans have a need to explore and learn and overcome our faults”.
What? Why that just proves how much star trek plagiarizes star trek! *boo hiss*
;-D
Don the Kiwi, the reason the NZ policy has been ‘discarded’ is due to the retirement of large portions of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the last 20 years. The U.S. still refuses to “confirm or deny”, but a close reading of the list of dismantled warhead types effectively constitutes a denial that U.S. surface combatants carry such weapons any longer.
Cool comment Pinky- I am sending it to some friends
“Ladies and Gentlemen, in tonight’s production of “Good versus Evil”, the part of Good will be portrayed by Also Evil.”
I watched PBS coverage of the Trump acceptance speech. – Judy Woodruff (Hillary donor) and Gwen Ifil Mark Shields David Brooks– It was like a self flagellation for me.