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Pergatory

I am increasingly anxious, having lived in my well-over-a-month-long coronavirus home confinement, that I may be destined for a multi-eon-long pause in purgatory. I think going straight to hell might just be preferable?

Headlines

James Comey says he’s backing Biden for president

10-year treasury falls below 1%  for the first time after Fed slashes rates due tc virus

Fauci pandemic warning ...

Hillary: Bernie’s campaign is baloney

Donna Brazile to Ronna McDaniel: ‘Go to hell!’

Coronavirus live update: US cases rise to 108, Fed cuts rates on outbreak risk

Tensions rise as U.S. death toll from coronavirus reaches 7 ...

AOC: Only a ‘progressive mass-movement’ can defeat Trump

Deadly overnight tornadoes disrupt voting in Tennessee

Trump campaign sues Washington Post for defamation

Fed cuts rate half point ...

Beto O’Rourke: ‘Only Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump’

Powerline Pic

‘Nuf said ...

The Author

There was an author  from Hell,

Who never learned how to spell.

So, as you suspect,

He used auto-correct.

It didn't turn out very well.

Today's Quote

When you are going through hell, keep going. -- Winston Churchill

Hell Frozen Over

In that I am tutoring chemistry of late, I am reminded of this entry that was originally published in my blog Junkier Science in 2006:

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One anonomous student, however, wrote the following:

“First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct ... leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’"

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A".

Sleepwalking to Our Perdition

I am more and more verklempt that the American public … and its increasing dissatisfaction with the Obama administration … are becoming irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. We protest and Obama plays pool … lifting a middle finger to our angst as irrelevant.

Our fearless leader cares not a wit about the mare’s nest that he (and Hildebeest and the Botox boy) have created with our foreign policy … nor his administration’s cacophony of corruption interrupting our domestic tranquility. He reads his Teleprompter li[n]es completely assured that this absolves him from any responsibility for these problems. He is not the trouble … it is the do-nothing Congress … or the tea party … or Darrell Issa … or Rush Limbaugh … or the Supreme Court … or those mean Israelis.

“There is not one smidgen of corruption at the IRS. Al Qaida is on the run.  Bin Laden is dead and G.M is alive. The Affordable Care Act will bend our healthcare costs down. Just wait [until after 2016]!” We are a nation of pajama-boys whose concerns are not to be concerning to Barry.

After all David Letterman will joke with him at the drop of a bad pun … and Slick Willy will defend Obama’s many screw-ups with his folksy delivery … and the New York Times is still in his corner fanning him with its ticky-tacky towel … and Jon Stewart will give America’s youth the straight liberal skinny … and most of Hollywood will write him big checks. Obama’s only rationale and salvation is, “I won.”

And the searing flames and the stink of hell’s sulfur are the only things that possibly might interrupt the damning somnambulance of America’s media mindset. But somehow I doubt it ... admitting that one was wrong is a feast not savored.

Unlikely to Happen

- My winning the Powerball lottery

- The New York Times endorsing a Republican for President

- A gay marriage in a Mosque

- Harry Reid bringing a Republican bill up for a Senate vote

- Rush Limbaugh admitting that he is a blowhard

- Eric Holder charging a black man with a hate crime

- U.N. staffers staying in one-star European hotels

- Obama approving the XL pipeline before the 2014 midterms

- Russia's Putin proposing self-determination for Ukrainian voters

- The ACLU defending the display of a creche on public property

- Gabby Giffords propounding Second-Amendment gun rights

- Iran endorsing Israel's right to exist

- Bill Clinton coming out of the closet

- Hell freezing over ... but ... then again ... maybe not

European Heaven and Hell

I figure I have offended a goodly number of Americans with my previous blog post … suggesting that (too) many of us are susceptible to Obama’s B.S.  So, to be fair and balanced, it is now time to dis(respect) the Europeans.  This is a (hopefully) humorous story I heard well over twenty-five years ago ... so I trust it is new to many of you.  It is the European version of heaven and hell.

European Heaven

A German mechanic

An English policeman

A French chef

An Italian lover

and

A Swiss administrator

European Hell

A German policeman

An English chef

A French mechanic

An Italian administrator

and

A Swiss lover

Bada Bing …