Bits & Bytes

DEMOCRAT: CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1777706121165222111 [:52] to hear Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX-18] say,

“A full moon is a complete rounded circle. Which is made up mostly of gases. And that’s why the question, the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon. Are the gasses such that we could do that. The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable and you will see … that NASA is going back to the moon.”

Rep. Brown is the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Congressional Black Caucus whip. She currently sits on three Congressional Committees — Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Budget – where she is the senior Democrat. She also chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee for Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Reread that list and ponder our future.

In the past, she served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA. During that time, she famously asked NASA scientists whether they could drive the Mars rover to where Neil Armstrong placed the American flag. (FACT CHECK: Armstrong planted the flag on the moon. We have not landed any human beings on Mars.)

In 2010, she pointed out that, “Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace.” (FACT CHECK: After we abandoned South Vietnam, the Communists running North Vietnam conquered the south. Today there is only one nation, Vietnam.)

Another of the erudite Democrats’ geography lessons concerned “countries like Europe.” But, to be fair, our First Black President (who wasn’t Bill Clinton) has also referred to “countries like Europe.” (FACT CHECK: Depending on how you count them, there are about 50 countries within the continent of Europe. N.b., Europe shares a land mass with the continent of Eurasia.)

• https://notthebee.com/article/i-wish-i-was-half-as-confident-as-sheila-jackson-lee-is-when-she-says-going-to-the-moon-is-possible-because-its-made-mostly-of-gases
• https://jacksonlee.house.gov/
• https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/walter-e-williams/driving-the-mars-rover-to-pick-up-the-moon-flag/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

SCRABBLE TOGETHER: Some conservative sites are mocking this as “Scrabble for Snowflakes.” I am no snowflake, but I am very much looking forward to buying Scrabble Together. We enjoy cooperative games and this one looks like a great one to play with the grandkids. My only complaint is that I’m going to end up paying a lot to get it shipped to the U.S., since it is only being released in Europe.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/classic-board-game-dumbed-down-to-be-more-inclusive-less-intimidating-to-young-people
• https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifestyle/scrabble-makes-historic-change-for-first-time-in-75-years/

GRAMMY NOTES: Forty-five years and four months ago, Dearest and I met for the first time. Later, we attended Engaged Encounter with 17 other couples. The first activity was for each couple to stand up and introduce one other to the group and say where you had met.

Couple after couple said, “We met in a bar.” People started to snicker, then, as couple after couple also said, “We met in a bar,” everyone got very interested to see if the streak would continue. And it did … until us.

We were at the very end of the fourth row of seats, so went last. When we got up, my quiet guy said, “This is Chrissy.”

Not so quiet me said, “This is David. We met ….”

I paused. You could hear a pin drop.

“… on a retreat.“

BEST laugh I ever got!