My favorite time of the year, President Obama being wowed by smart young kids and their science projects. I’m gonna miss this…
Your mid-morning open thread.
ETA: In case you missed it, a compilation of previous WH Science Fairs:
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My favorite time of the year, President Obama being wowed by smart young kids and their science projects. I’m gonna miss this…
Your mid-morning open thread.
ETA: In case you missed it, a compilation of previous WH Science Fairs:
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Doug R
MARS!
Germy
I imagine a president cruz would host a regular bible study with kids, and discontinue that science nonsense.
Hillary Rettig
so much coolness. a couple of years back my nephew’s robotics team traveled to MIT where they competed in a worldwide competition. they were on a LIVE link not just to the European teams (who met up somewhere in Germany, I think) but also the Space Station – the latter because the robots were actually tested (in rt) up at the station. It felt like a miracle, but again was just something we decided to do.
caught the two watches that one astronaut was wearing
Mike in NC
@Germy: President Cruz would pass an executive order for the Smithsonian to open permanent exhibits on Creationism and Noah’s Ark.
oldgold
Do you think President Cruz would attempt to ban play-doh?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Germy: Oy, you remind me of those articles from the summer of 2001, about all the Bush staffers forming bible study group, including hate-wraith Mary Matalin talking about how it changed her life
debbie
@Hillary Rettig:
Yet approachable. Recent Republican presidents have carried themselves like kings, above the unwashed masses. Can’t see Bush, let alone Cheney, relating to kids the way Obama has.
Germy
@Mike in NC: Cruz would put Ken Ham in charge of the National Science Foundation.
@oldgold: Quite possibly play-doh would be among the things president cruz banned.
AkaDad
I had that same look on my face as Obama did. We’re so much alike.
Why did everyone just roll their eyes?
Germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I remember an anecdote about the humorist Robert Benchley. When he was a Harvard student, he tacked up a sign on a bulletin board. “Bible study meeting 2:00. Penny ante limit”
Doug R
Germy: The irony being that the oil business is dependent on geological time and evolution. Cruz was born about a hundred miles from one of the best dinosaur museums on Earth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tyrrell_Museum_of_Palaeontology
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: LOL at “hate-wraith Mary Matalin” — good description. She and her angry fetus mate deserve one another.
AkaDad
Cruz can’t ban dildos, because his wife would divorce him.
A Ghost To Most
@Betty Cracker:
Caught her visage in passing this morning on my way to knocking over a foot of snow off my lilacs. Scary!
Major Major Major Major
Man. He really will be missed. …By me. I’ll miss him.
I wanted to write something snarky but I really just will. What a class act.
oldgold
@AkaDad:
Yes, that, and banning fingers is going to be a steep political hill to climb.
smith
@Major Major Major Major: Are you the Major Major Major Major FPing at Wonkette (could there be two?)? If so, many thumbs up for christening the Bundy Bunch as the Ranch Dildonians. An instant classic!
slag
My favorite part of this science fair was when Obama directly connected science to America’s founding and constitution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIeEgCCa6c
I hate the thought of going back to flag pins and patriotism platitudes after this president leaves office.
D58826
Not to worry by the time Prez. Cruz re-introduces the gold standard, the creationism museum will be the least of our problems. And no one will be able to afford dildos
Major Major Major Major
@smith: I am not, but thanks for playing :)
? Martin
@D58826:
Which is ironic, because after the IRS is dissolved, we will be freed from the shackles of having to figure out how to deduct our dildos as business expenses. It’s like the conservative version of that gift parable with the dude with the busted Apple Watch and the lady with the hair extensions.
? Martin
And how the fuck did this post get written without including the MBK video of Obama mentoring Steph Curry.
Mike J
Please do not use analogies from classical antiquity if you don’t understand them:
SarahT
@AkaDad:Same with Rohypnol.
SarahT
@oldgold: Heh.
debbie
@Mike J:
I think Kasich does see himself as Caesar. That’s certainly how he’s governed in Ohio.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: Oh lord.
Alea iacta est, indeed.
slag
@? Martin: LOVE that video! So hilarious and true.
James E Powell
So many of us are already feeling the sense of loss – Do we need to form support groups?
rikyrah
I love how our President respects science.
SarahT
@James E Powell: Yes, please. Count me in.
Glidwrith
OK, why would play-doh be banned?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@James E Powell: @SarahT:
Yes.
WaterGirl
@Glidwrith: I wondered, too. I’m thinking you and I both missed some news cycle, but I look forward to hearing the details.
Glidwrith
@WaterGirl: The shapes that can be made? The delightful rainbow colors which mask the agenda of the devil?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@James E Powell: Part of me imagines Obama facing off against the 22nd Darthmendent– “Should you strike me from office I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…”
Amir Khalid
Speaking of science-related (or at least tech-related) matters, does anyone know anything about this?
JPL
@James E Powell: If Cruz or Trump become the next President, I fear that a support group will not be enough.
gogol's wife
@James E Powell:
BJ is my support group.
trollhattan
@Doug R:
Makes you wonder how Crazy Uncle Liberty’s spawn isn’t still in the race, given his fine state is home to the Creation Museum.
gogol's wife
@Glidwrith:
Maybe because you’re pretending to be God by molding people out of clay?
redshirt
@James E Powell:
You’re soaking in it.
SarahT
@redshirt: Heh
Iowa Old Lady
I’m ready for the primaries to be over. The nastiness is getting to me. I can accept losing. I’ve been voting since 1968 and God knows I’ve had practice. I just get depressed watching people succumb to their worst self and put it out for everyone to see.
oldster
When he says “It’s a prototype,” and you can tell he’s quoting something that the girls just said to him, and that he’s sort of laughing about their using that word, but that he’s also delighted that they used that word, and he is balancing a view of the event from their perspective with a view of it from the adult perspective, and you here his deep good will towards these kids, and
I just start crying. Not since Lincoln have we had a President this deeply humane and wise in the White House. I’m all fired up for Hillary, but I’m still going to miss this guy. I hope he has the best post-WH career ever.
Germy
@Glidwrith:
Because it can be rolled into the shape of a dildo. And then you spend the rest of the day smelling like a kindergarten classroom.
SarahT
@oldster: Seconded.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Germy: playdildo?
Germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: the saturday morning tv commercials were too intense!
Ultraviolet Thunder
Skyping my brother into Grandma’s 99th birthday pizza party. She has poor hearing and vision.
This is turning into a bit of a trial but she’s enjoying it.
Pizza was good.
Anya
@James E Powell: count me in. I am in Toronto this weekend and I think the people I’ve met here, would lie to join that support group.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anya: Remember when we were told Clinton’s sex life made us that laughing stock of the world? I think they tried that with Obama at some point, too, though for the life of me I can’t remember what prompted it. Anyway… I imagine the foreigners curious about Trump, thinking “that can’t be true’, and looking into it deeper to find that the other major contender is a creationist “Christian’ who wants to firebomb Syria till “the sand glows”
Anya
@Iowa Old Lady: I am with you. I want this stupid primary over. My first vote was when I voted for Obama. 2007/2008 was crazy in its on way but it was also inspirational. I feel so sorry for the young people Bernie “inspired”. I think his clueless campaign might have damaged them and made them into cynics. I was them in 08. I got lucky!
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t know where they get this idea that the world doesn’t respect the USA because of Obama. I spent 2013 traveling the world and i can’t tell you how many times I saw someone wearing an Obama Hope t-shirt or people who want to talk to you about him. I think he gave cover to a lot of our undesirable policies. Wait till he’s out of office and see how the rest of the world reacts to our foreign policy.
burnspbesq
Man, this is bad.
https://www.justsecurity.org/30606/burr-feinstein-crypto-bill-terrible/#more-30606
This really needs to be Feinstein’s last term in the Senate. If she won’t go voluntarily, we California Democrats need to nut up and kick her out on her ass.
Iowa Old Lady
@burnspbesq: I thought she said she wasn’t running again?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Iowa Old Lady: Always puzzled me that in the mania for primary challenges to Blue Dogs in Purple States, that nobody ever took a run against Herself.
Iowa Old Lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Truthfully, my biggest exposure to DF was in “Milk,” in which she unexpectedly becomes mayor of SF. I have too many Senate pains of my own to worry about her.
D58826
From Pat’s mouth to FSM’s ear
We can only hope. It helps when your on the right side of the arc of justice.
Will enjoy contributing one vote to kick his sorry butt to the ashcan of history come next November
catclub
@oldster:
Me. too. But Jimmy Carter sets a high bar. And is still going on.
karensky
Thanks for those, Ta Mara. I am gonna so miss that guy! I am in tears.