ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

Let's get the dumbest and most arrogant of human questions out of the way a.k.a. are we alone in the universe? 
A model to help get your head around things. If you could count every grain of sand from ever beach and desert on earth, the number would still not add up to the number of stars in the known universe. And if only one advanced tech society existed in every know galaxy in the universe (ours being the Milky Way galaxy with a hundred billion suns, so that's us, folks) the universe would still be filled with billions of advanced life species. 
Now, having got that out of the way...the discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a nearby star has really gotten everyone who has an interest in the possibility of space colonization thinking. Found by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based TRAPPIST Telescope, there seems to be at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

The biggest surprise was that three or four of these planets are in the so called Goldilocks Zone - not too far from the star, not too close, not too big for a planet, not too small – a sweet spot where liquid water is stable on the right-sized planet with an atmosphere on which life could develop or survive if transplanted. 
But this very young sun - only 500 million years old, 39 light years away from our Solar System - is an ultra red dwarf; so no sun tans to be had there, then. 
Even if complex life had not yet evolved in the TRAPPIST-1 system, the distance to these new worlds for humans to screw up, is not reachable with anything that we have - or likely to have - for who knows how long.  
Even traveling at near the speed of light, 39+ earth years is still be a bugger of a long, one way journey. Nope, this is for your future robot cousins to contemplate, not we organics. 

A mock up view of the TRAPPIST-1 system. 

LA LA COCK-UP!

There are brilliant films made by many countries - sometimes even American films - which will never get a gong; who mostly struggle for financial backing to be made at all; and then there's the uphill battle to find a distributor.

Meanwhile...the "La La Land" cast was on stage hugging one another in that luvvie, kissy-kissy way of theirs; giving speeches and having an arty-farty orgasm. Then, producer Jordan Horowitz stopped 'em short and announced suddenly that "Moonlight" had won. What a FU! Were the envelop openers coked up?
"Moonlight" the winner, not us "La la" folks?  Painted smiles that only the Tinsel Town prick and prickesses can fake. As the "Moonlight" cast and crew took the stage, chaos ensued. Well, what does one expect from Crew Socialism?

HALF BAKED FRENCH LOAF!

France is home to an estimated 8,250 known hardcore Islamic radicals. However, only 17 submitted applications for deradicalization - and only nine arrived for the programe. Presumably the others couldn't get time off from bomb making class. Not a single resident has completed the full ten-month curriculum.
 I'd like to hear what the first day lesson was:
Gather round class. Relax, put on the blindfold and  think nice thoughts...or perhaps you have a very special lady friend? What is teacher going to ask you to do? Oh, it's called a Trust Game. You simply leap off the fourth floor window sill and some Jewish fellas will catch you in a blanket before you hit the ground. Sounds fun, eh?
"Deradicalizing someone does not happen in six months. These people, who have not been given an ideal and who have clung to Islamic State's ideology, are not going to get rid of it just like that. There is no 'Open Sesame.'" said one hopeful instructor.
"The deradicalization program is a total fiasco. Everything must be rethought, everything must be redesigned from scratch." Senator Esther Benbassa said with the look of the desperate.
Which of the many dim wit bewildered actually thought up this Euro wasting exercise? Memo to  Senator E Benbassa: I guarantee complete success with said death cult followers; and financially speaking, it will be oh so much cheaper: Shoot the fuckers.

FARRAKHAN LITE COMES SECOND!

It was a nail biter and the vote was tight; the victor was required to win 218 out of 435 votes. Perez the Pretzel won 235 to the 200 won by the Farrakhan Lite Ellison. Both men appealed for unity as each of them spoke after the results were announced. Perez immediately asked Ellison to join him as his deputy chair. Ellison responded in a statement, “I look forward to helping the Democratic Party in any way that I can."
How about pissing off to some place south of the border...like that socialist slimming school better know as Venezuela? And will Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz, - a damn decent kind of chap - will he now only half leave the Dems?
Meanwhile, Hillary is going to be leading the Dems "resistance"and will be with her shock troops 'every step of the way'. How she will achieve this feat while situated in her sulk room without resorting to quantum entanglement will be interesting.

Hi comrades, it is I, The Petzel. But worry not; for when I'm
indisposed, you'll have Farrakhan Lite in charge of proceedings.

SO...ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS RACIST!

The Dems just can't enough of stupidity. Their latest journey into the twilight zone is an attack on the business language of the world: English.
The chief writing instructor at the University of Washington, Tacoma, is trying to dismantle the rules of grammar because he believes they are racist—and the college has given its endorsement to his campaign.
The writing center director, Dr. Asao Inoue - with his brains in his behind it would seem - is the genius. The students’ regressive notions of language has to be destroyed, is Dr Doom's message; who by the way is a "searcher of anti-racist writing assessment." According to his Twitter profile, he's published two books on how to promote a “socially just future” a.k.a. by dismantling academic structures that reward proper grammar and usage.
Just when you thought the loony brigade and thought police couldn't lay any more of their shit on you; they can!

Right now kiddies, who can draw me a kicking K?

BIG PHARMA AND THEIR ACADEMIC POSSE!

If anyone believes that academic professors and other "experts" are always squeaky clean, neutral, haven't an agenda or can't be bought; then I guess you'll take humans being the main cause of climate change as kosher science.
In the U.S. while big pharma  readies for battle with Trumpers - who called them out over exorbitant drug prices - the pharmaceutical industry is busy deploying economists and health care experts from the nation’s top universities.
Heaving under the weight of scholarly articles and blogs while booking conference venues, they lend their so called prestige to the lobbying blitz - while seldom disclosing their corporate sugar daddy.
The pharmaceutical industry is digging in. One of its trade groups to date has raised an additional $100 million for its “war chest.” For years, it has spent  millions of dollars lobbying politicians, and being rather successful in enlisting their support on a wide range of legislation. It has similarly wooed doctors, seeking to influence what they research, teach and prescribe. Now, it’s courting health economists.
 A thousand percent price rise for your life saving drug? Well, some "health economist" - before leaving you mud splattered from their wheel spinning Ferrari - has concluded you're still getting a real bargain.
Some may recall, the mantra "too big to fail"? Similar "experts" from the academic community - armed with  empirical evidence - gave their backing to political elites; who in turn press ganged the ordinary, tax paying Chuck and Cindies of America, to join that 2008 Financial Crash Fiasco Party.
Beware the academic priesthood; a very large contingent of them couldn't get their Nazi Party membership card through the mail fast enough.

KEITH ELLISON? THE DEMS FARRAKHAN LITE CANDIDATE!

Ellison is the leading contender in this weekend’s elections for a new Democratic National Committee chair, stressed “a long history of interfaith dialogue” during an interview on CNN.

His are weasel words. Ellison has spent most of his political life hanging with, and associating with, some of the most anti-American, anti-Israel dudes. Like Barry Obama without the smooth, he's every bit as treacherous. 
If the usual Jewish liberal types swallow his make - over bollocks, then they would probably have also sponsored their own cattle trucks to Treblinka.

Hey, bros; it's Keith-y E here;
 laying some of ma Jew luvin' tripe on ya.