Trump vs. Schwarzenegger, round 2

[ClydeR]

President Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger were embroiled in a long-distance feud on Thursday after the president
used a prayer breakfast speech to taunt the action star about his reality show ratings, and Mr. Schwarzenegger fired back in a
video posted on Twitter.

To be clear, this is actually happening.

More... (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/media/trump-arnold-schwarzenegger-apprentice.html)

Schwarzenegger's video said that since Trump obviously has a good understanding of show business, then he and Schwarzenegger should switch jobs.


Thankfully, it's not the outrage Obama cause a year ago. You remember it clearly, I'm sure. There may be a few dim people in this forum who do not, and I will post a reminder for them..


His latest challenge came Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast. At a time of global anxiety over Islamist terrorism, Obama noted pointedly that his fellow Christians, who make up a vast majority of Americans, should perhaps not be the ones who cast the first stone.

“Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history,” he told the group, speaking of the tension between the compassionate and murderous acts religion can inspire. “And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Some Republicans were outraged. “The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,” said former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (R). “He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.”

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“6EQUJ5" --The Signal from Cosmic Depths That Might Have Changed Human Civilization (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/12/6equj5-the-cosmic-signal-that-might-have-changed-human-civilization.html)


August 15, 1977: the night before Elvis Presley died, at 11:16 p.m. an Ohio radio telescope -a rectangular structure, larger than three football feilds- called the Big Ear recorded a single pulse of radiation that seemed to come from somewhere in the constellation of Sagittarius at the 1420 MHz hydrogen line, the vibration frequency of hydrogen, the most common molecule in the universe -exactly the signal ET-hunters had been instructed to look out for. The signal was so strong that it pushed the Big Ear's recording device off the chart.

Three nights later, on August 18, astronomer Jerry Ehman sat at his kitchen table flipping through a thick computer-generated printout displaying the cryptic stream of blank spaces and black digits shown below. As Ehman looked carefully through this forest of information, he zoomed in on a an odd column that read, from top to bottom: “6EQUJ5.”

This small section of paper with its imperfectly printed characters, together with Ehman’s emphatic note, "represent what some people think remains the best evidence of a signal from the cosmic depths that was of artificial, purposeful, and intelligent origin," according to Caleb Scharf, director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University.