https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYxj9fSe5yw

And she looks great!

Besides, where would we—or AOC—be without cows?
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Speaking of AOC…regarding “Could she be preending”…that last is a delightful construction, a wonderful word, a masterful malaprop—an ingenious cross between “preening” and “pretending”…

And it fits AOC to a T.

Note: In spite of the wishes of some of our most enlightened commenters, one MUST hope that for her sake stupidity is NOT a comorbidity and that she recovers Absolutely, Overall, Completely. (Otherwise, who will be left to entertain us…?)

Thanks, fixed!

Andrea Widburg agrees with you, and so do I.
Precedent and stats.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/ostensibly_a_biological_woman_beat_a_socalled_transgender_woman_at_a_swim_meet.html

The first act in this play was in the summer of 2020 when there was a big kerfuffle that New Zealand was sending Hubbard to compete in the women’s weightlifting category at the Olympics. People noted his bigger bones, as well as the lifelong benefits testosterone, gave him when it came to physical strength, even though he’d been taking female hormones. However, once at the Olympics, Hubbard flamed out completely. As I noted at the time, leftists immediately crowed that his failures showed that there was nothing unfair about having men compete against women.

Because I’m cynical and suspicious, I openly wondered whether Hubbard threw the competition on purpose. Sure, he didn’t take home a medal but, as a good activist should, he weakened the primary argument people have made against allowing biological men to claim womanhood and then compete against women; namely, that physically, men will beat women. This was one man who couldn’t.
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The debate was reignited in December when Thomas wiped out his NCAA competition at a swim meet in Akron while swimming as a female. As with Hubbard, people again pointed out that letting men compete against women ensures that women will be at a serious disadvantage. The fact is that even teenage boys are faster and stronger than grown women and Thomas’s victories simply reinforced that truism.

However, yesterday, quite conveniently and miraculously, a woman beat Thomas at an NCAA swim meet. To add color to the story, the woman, Henig, claims to be a man, although she denies ever having had testosterone.

So, if you’re trying to keep score, last month, a man pretending to be a woman outswam real women. This month, a woman pretending to be a man outswam the man pretending to be a woman. Once more, just as with Hubbard, we have this wonderful “proof” that biological women can beat so-called “transgender” women (that is, that biological women can beat men).

But just as with Hubbard, I’m troubled by the numbers. It’s hard to do one-on-one analyses because they’ve been swimming all sorts of different races, but I compared whatever information I had available when it came to Thomas’s top times to the overall Division I top NCAA times, as well as comparing them to his and Henig’s times yesterday. What emerges is that Henig is a decent swimmer for a woman, although by no means NCAA champion material, and that Thomas experienced a sudden collapse:
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I’m not accusing Thomas of throwing the races. I’m just pointing out how useful it is that Thomas, just like Hubbard, suddenly flamed out when the debate about men competing against women reached a fever pitch. The fact that he flamed out against a woman who believes she’s a man only makes the story more colorful, rather than making it any less useless when it comes to the cause of men competing against women.

Thank you for those links.

Linda S Fox,

That’s certainly a real possibility, even probable. If Lia/Will was feeling poorly, why not just call in sick? As being there for the team wouldn’t be a consideration. Since we know he could care less about his teammates, having demonstrated he’s willingness to participate in the destruction of women’s sports. That is, as long as he has the leading role.

Anything to be in the record books!

As an Illini grad I’m not sure I can back up your testament to Big Ten athletics. At least Illinois’ contingent. I think our football team would struggle against Bryn Mawr!

(thanks for the help, mkent!)
Like most everything the press covers the press almost always botches near miss asteroid stories. Yeah, a six-mile diameter rock buzzing by us at the distance of the moon’s orbit is a really close call, astronomically, but that’s still a quarter of a million miles away.

If you scroll to the “Ongoing Projects” section of this wikipedia article it lists some of the stuff done in the last 3 – 4 decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance#:~:text=In%20April%202018%2C%20the%20B612%20Foundation%20reported%20%22It%27s,to%20be%20the%20biggest%20threat%20to%20the%20planet.

The “Collision Avoidance strategies” section a bit after that one lists many of the proposed solutions and progress, if any, towards prototypes.

It does seem a near mathematical certainty some chunk of something large enough to cause a massive, if not total, extinction event is bound to strike Earth in the future. It’s happened in the past. But the number of such objects has been greatly reduced since the solar system formed and it’s not an absolute certainty. But it only takes one! 😉

World governments have greatly stepped-up attention to this matter, along with funding. At the current rate we’re likely to have a reasonable solution in 30 – 100 years and detection will just keep getting better and better. That may sound like cold comfort, especially since one could hit this year, but based on the reality that we only became able to do something about it in the past decades, it’s not a bad pace.

Penn State is in the Big Ten. The Ivy League may have more social cachet. But Big Ten athletics are far superior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS

They are about to be joined in the search by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is scheduled for first light this October and to begin the sky survey next October.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory

It’s a topic that gets a fair amount of attention in the aerospace community, but apparently not a lot of popular press.