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Ought to have done that long since.

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My question is: What does Bill Gates need with a yacht?

On the other hand, it does look like the Nautilus from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen….

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US Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, the head of the Navy’s 2nd Fleet, raised eyebrows this week with alarming comments made at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event.

He told the think tank audience that a recent uptick of Russian submarine presence of the US East Coast means that the coastal area should no longer be considered “uncontested” nor should any longer be deemed a “safe haven” for US ships or submarines.

Perhaps they could arrange for marine biologists to tag them, the way they tag sharks. I’m always reading about sharks that have appeared off the east coast because they picked up the tags. Maybe the Navy ought to get on that.

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Around 45% of plastic waste is recycled annually in the UK and is on the increase. However, one of the problems with current plastic recycling methods is that you end up with a lower-quality plastic with worse properties than the original.

This means that plastic drinks bottles cannot simply be recycled into new drink bottles continuously, but instead are used for other lower-grade products such as park benches and traffic cones.

Now, scientists from the Universities of Bath and Birmingham have developed a new way of chemical recycling—converting plastics back into their constituent chemical molecules—so that they can be used to make new plastics of the same quality as the original.

Will it persuade the plastic-bag nannies to shut up? Don’t bet on it.

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Viruses are some of the most mysterious organisms on Earth. They’re among the world’s tiniest lifeforms, and because none can survive and reproduce without a host, some scientists have questioned whether they should even be considered living things. Now, scientists have discovered one that has no recognizable genes, making it among the strangest of all known viruses. But how many viruses do we really know? Another group has just discovered thousands of new viruses hiding out in the tissues of dozens of animals.

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A week ago, we published details that raised questions about the source of the Wuhan novel coronavirus, specifically questioning the official theory for the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, namely because someone ate bat soup at a Wuhan seafood and animal market as a fabricated farce.

The real reason behind the viral spread, we suggested, was that a weaponized version of the coronavirus (one which may have originally been obtained from Canada), was released by Wuhan’s Institute of Virology (presumably accidentally ), China’s only top, level-4 biohazard lab, which was studying “the world’s most dangerous pathogens.”

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Trump is not the pushover that the Bushes were. You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has written a letter to the House Ethics Committee requesting an investigation into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to tear up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address, arguing that “Her unseemly behavior certainly warrants censure.”

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Their grandchildren may actually see it approved.

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Two can play this Congressional Fishing Expedition game.

The Democrats are going to learn hat sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

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Here are some pictures and video of the creepy culty Women in White sitting on their fat asses while Trump announced stuff like the lowest level of black poverty ever, or the lowest rate of black teen unemployment ever recorded.

I received a text message on my phone from a Bloomberg operative asking whether they could ‘count on me to support Mike’. I texted back that I’d first like to get an explanation for why a Republican is running for the Democrat Presidential nomination. No response as yet. Nor do I expect one. If I can find out where the Democrats are holding their primary caucuses I may track him down and ask him that in person. That would be fun.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Actually, I wasn’t all that curious.

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An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades — a feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure.

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Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving. It’s true that Homo sapiens look very different than Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin that lived around 2.9 million years ago. But it is also true that we are very different compared to members of our same species, Homo sapiens, who lived 10,000 years ago — and we will very likely be different from the humans of the future.

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Put a 20mm chaingun mount on it and I’m in.

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Not going viral, I suspect.

Radix malorum est stupiditas, as a friend of mine likes to say.

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If I were the richest guy in the world, I would have this dweeb kidnapped, flown to China, and dumped in a back alley in Wuhan.

Just sayin’.

On the other hand, anybody who would trade this:

for this:

has a screw loose. So there’s that.

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Or maybe not, but it sounds very interesting.

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Asked if he would carry a gun as mayor, Adams replied: “Yes I will, number one. And number two, I won’t have a security detail. If the city is safe, the mayor shouldn’t have a security detail with him. He should be walking the street by himself.”

Current Mayor Bill de Blasio has a security detail provided by a unit of the New York Police Department, the New York Post noted. The detail accompanies the mayor everywhere — even when he travels overseas.

The newspaper said the NYPD has refused to disclose how much money is being spent on the security detail.

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Fashion retailer Nordstrom gets it: Americans are becoming poorer, and it’s time for it to capitalize on recommerce, otherwise known as reverse commerce, which basically means Nordstrom is going to sell secondhand clothing.

I have a couple of Nordstrom suits that I like a lot.

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Hillary Clinton is running from Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s $50 million defamation lawsuit, refusing to have a lawsuit delivered, Gabbard’s lawyer said Wednesday.

Clinton or her aides have refused to accept legal documents from the congresswoman, Brian Dunne told the New York Post.

Dodging process servers? Isn’t that what crooks do?

She can dish it out but she can’t take it.

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Previous research has shown that mothers and calves show individuality in their vocalizations, helping moms recognize babies’ calls, and vice versa. But Alexandra Green, a PhD student at the University of Sydney’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences, wondered whether cows also display unique voices in other aspects of their lives. So she headed to a free-range farm on the university’s campus, equipped with headphones and a shotgun mic.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Just in case.

The basic precaution is Stay Away From Other People.

Easier for some of us than others….

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Trump just keeps on winning.

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President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one making history at this year’s March for Life. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put an even bigger exclamation point on the day when he broke news at Family Research Council headquarters about new action the agency was taking.

After four years of watching California attack its own people, HHS is finally saying, “Enough.” If the state can’t be bothered to follow the law, Azar has decided to make it pay for it—in federal funds, if necessary.

It’s been a problem since 2014. That’s when California’s health department started strong-arming employers into covering abortion on their insurance exchange.

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If the enviro-fascists will let them.

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Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said.

At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said.

UPDATE: Terroristic threats by Omar’s enforcer

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A caravan of Central American migrants was stopped in its tracks last week by the Mexican National Guard, which arrested migrants as they crossed the river at the border town of Tecun Uman and hauled them off to a detention center in the nearby city of Tapachula.

Prediction: It won’t last. The cartels make too much off of smuggling people and have too much influence over the Mexican government for this to stick.

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Although practically all of the western media reports from the city of Wuhan have claimed that the city’s hospitals have been completely overwhelmed by cases of pneumonia as more cases of the Wuhan coronavirus are confirmed, the South China Morning Post reports that a team of researchers at Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital have retraced the movements of the first individual who was diagnosed with the virus, and determined that he had no links to a shady seafood market selling live snakes and bats for human consumption.

UPDATE: Did China Steal Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponize It

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I’ll bet you’ll never guess what it looks like….

Personally, I have no problem with it.

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A court in El Salvador ordered Raúl Antonio Ventura to be held in jail Thursday for social media posts and telephone messages that encouraged people to congregate in San Salvador, the country’s capital city, in late January in order to form a caravan to the U.S., the Associated Press reported.

A step in the right direction.

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Big technology companies have begun dabbling with RISC-V, which replaces proprietary know-how in a key part of the chip design process with a free standard that anyone can use. While it’s early days, this could create a new crop of processors that compete with Intel Corp. products and whittle away at the licensing business of Arm Holdings Plc.

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Protesters rallying outside court in Vancouver, Canada, this week in support of embattled Huawei finance chief Meng Wanzhou turned out to be paid actors – who said they thought they were extras for a film or music video.

Each person in the group held a white or red-colored poster that carried messages such as “Free Ms Meng Equal Justice!” or “Bring Michael home, Trump stop bullying us.”

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Is this a great country or what?

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Brexit is here.

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Is this a great country, or what?

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The Mexican government continues to fend off hundreds of Central American migrants who are trying to cross its border in order to reach the U.S., an indication of how much Mexico has stepped up its own immigration enforcement measures.

UPDATE: ‘Removed, Returned, Repatriated’: DHS Chief Issues Warning To Members Of Migrant Caravan

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With its SMR design, which is “just one-tenth the size of a typical large-scale reactor site,” a pressurized water reactor is enclosed with robust safety layers that are still far smaller in volume than the reactor space in a traditional nuclear plant. The reactor is oriented vertically, so gravity helps to move the hot and cold water around. Despite its much smaller size, the reactor will produce an expected 450 MWe, compared with 600 MWe at each of the two reactors at the existing Dungeness B plant in Kent.

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The Mexican government continues to fend off hundreds of Central American migrants who are trying to cross its border in order to reach the U.S., an indication of how much Mexico has stepped up its own immigration enforcement measures.

Mexico is a country, not a road.

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Everything is bad for you so you might as well just kill yourself.

Never touch the stuff myself.

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The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.

The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have “enormous potential”.

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Answering the burning question that nobody asked ever.

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Adolfo Cardenas smiles faintly at the memory of traveling with his 14-year-old son from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border in only nine days, riding buses and paying a smuggler $6,000 to ensure passage through highway checkpoints.

Father and son walked about 10 minutes in Arizona’s stifling June heat before surrendering to border agents. Instead of being released with paperwork to appear in immigration court in Dallas, where Cardenas hopes to live with a cousin, they were bused more than an hour to wait in the Mexican border city of Mexicali.

“It was a surprise. I never imagined this would happen,” Cardenas, 39, said while waiting at a Mexicali migrant shelter for his fifth court appearance in San Diego, on Jan. 24.

UPDATE: Buttigieg Says American ‘Economy Needed 11 Million’ Illegal Immigrants

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So far, the team has identified four distinct ageotypes: Immune, kidney, liver and metabolic. Some people fit squarely in one category, but others may meet the criteria for all four, depending on how their biological systems hold up with age.

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If you’ve got Hammer tech, flaunt it.