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Have we done a BOLO on Orly lately? Seems very very quiet.
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bill_g wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 3:15 pm Have we done a BOLO on Orly lately? Seems very very quiet.
He's still posting occasionally on Twitter -

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Okay. Good he's alive, and probably well. Thank you.
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Italian children should be given the surnames of both parents, the constitutional court has ruled, overturning the tradition by which all newborns are automatically named after their fathers.

The practice was “discriminatory and harmful to the identity” of the child, the court said in a statement, adding that both parents should be able to choose the surname.

Children should be given both parents’ surnames in the order they decide, unless they agree their children should take just one of them, the court added in a statement.

New legislation, to be approved by parliament, is required to implement the decision.
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Madeleine Albright's pins:

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Her funeral service was held today.
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:eek:

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The Albright pins are fascinating. :biggrin:
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The cop running behind the pig was the funniest part.
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While I am a child of the early age of manned space flight I very much agree with the astronomer royal. There is no reason to send people into space. :nope:
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I dunno, there are SOME people I think we need to send into space...
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tek wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:46 am I dunno, there are SOME people I think we need to send into space...
But launches into the sun are still very expensive.
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Think of a successful expedition to Sun. Bringing home all that solar power. No longer dirty coal or crude oil spills or bird killing wind energy....... :twisted:
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🎵A-hunting we shall go🎶
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RTH10260 wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:35 am Think of a successful expedition to Sun. Bringing home all that solar power. No longer dirty coal or crude oil spills or bird killing wind energy....... :twisted:
Yeah, but you have to go at night.
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tek wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:46 am I dunno, there are SOME people I think we need to send into space...
One way.
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We can use catapults for near space insertion. Unfortunately they will never achive orbit, and therefore plummet back to Earth.
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Ian Fleming’s Lost ‘Moonraker’ Script Found, Revealing Dramatically Different Vision for James Bond Movies

However, diehard fans will be quick to point out that the lighthearted nature of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore eras was itself a departure from the original books. Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are quite dark, and the early films have little in common with his more serious spy tone.

Fleming’s involvement with the films was minimal , but he did attempt to adapt one of his novels, “Moonraker,” into a screenplay. He wrote a 150-page treatment for a “Moonraker” movie in 1956, a year after the novel was published but six years before the first Bond film came out. The script was largely ignored and forgotten by the film industry, and the 1979 film of the same name has little in common with Fleming’s vision.

The script was purchased by a collector in 2015, and new reporting from The Observer has revealed some new details from the lost piece of film history.

While the “Moonraker” film is one of the silliest entries in the series, featuring Roger Moore’s Bond traveling to space (just two years after “Star Wars” became a cultural phenomenon), Fleming’s vision was much more serious. While both stories feature Bond going to great lengths to stop supervillain Hugo Drax from destroying the world, the 1956 script is much more grounded, clearly informed by the threat of nuclear war.
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TF @_hyphenate wrote: Trevor Noah: Id ask Chuck Todd a follow up question but he doesn’t know what those are
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 2:18 pm https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/i ... uxbndlbing
Ian Fleming’s Lost ‘Moonraker’ Script Found, Revealing Dramatically Different Vision for James Bond Movies

However, diehard fans will be quick to point out that the lighthearted nature of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore eras was itself a departure from the original books. Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are quite dark, and the early films have little in common with his more serious spy tone.

Fleming’s involvement with the films was minimal , but he did attempt to adapt one of his novels, “Moonraker,” into a screenplay. He wrote a 150-page treatment for a “Moonraker” movie in 1956, a year after the novel was published but six years before the first Bond film came out. The script was largely ignored and forgotten by the film industry, and the 1979 film of the same name has little in common with Fleming’s vision.

The script was purchased by a collector in 2015, and new reporting from The Observer has revealed some new details from the lost piece of film history.

While the “Moonraker” film is one of the silliest entries in the series, featuring Roger Moore’s Bond traveling to space (just two years after “Star Wars” became a cultural phenomenon), Fleming’s vision was much more serious. While both stories feature Bond going to great lengths to stop supervillain Hugo Drax from destroying the world, the 1956 script is much more grounded, clearly informed by the threat of nuclear war.
Moonraker was just flat out a BAD flick from go to whoa.
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60 Minutes @60Minutes wrote: No, the government didn’t massacre billions of birds and replace them with drones. The Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy is pure parody, meant to mirror the absurdity of conspiracy theories that have taken flight across the country, says founder Peter McIndoe https://cbsn.ws/3LzIeiB
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raison de arizona wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 8:55 pm
60 Minutes @60Minutes wrote: No, the government didn’t massacre billions of birds and replace them with drones. The Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy is pure parody, meant to mirror the absurdity of conspiracy theories that have taken flight across the country, says founder Peter McIndoe https://cbsn.ws/3LzIeiB
Yeah, sure.

That's what they WANT you to think.
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