Does anyone else think the creator of “The Matrix”, movies, that gets pissed off if a few perhaps conservative people take the Red Pill, it seem almost anti the message of the Matrix movies? It’s almost like the “The Matrix” maker is stuck in the matrix of false polarities and only SJWs can take the red pill, or only she deems worthy

Strange times anons, strange times indeed! Who’s says that Ivanka and Musk are not SJWs. Very odd events in the matrix for sure! Do you think the real “Matrix” is disintegrating and they are freaking out? I do!

I love it when the military call everything “A loss if confidence”, two leaders removed in the last month

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/18/navys-chief-recruiter-removed-job-amid-2-investigations.html

Fred Willard Was an Army Veteran, Comedy Legend and Commander of 'Space Force

You’ve got to hand it to the army, honoring one of their own

Fred Willard, the comic actor whose hilarious roles made him one of the most revered supporting players in Hollywood history, has died in Los Angeles at age 86.

Willard, from Shaker Heights, Ohio, was sent to military school as a teenager and followed that with a two-year stint in the U.S. Army that saw him serve in West Germany.

After his military career, he worked at clubs and theaters as a comedian and as part of improvisation groups. He didn't get his first television credit until age 32 but went on to amass 499 appearances in movies and television over the next 54 years.

Willard took the jobs when they were available and is noted for guest roles on shows like "Modern Family," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "The Love Boat," "Love American Style," "Mad About You," "Family Matters" and "Roseanne." And, just to prove he was up for anything, Fred did a guest arc on soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" in 2015 and won a Daytime Emmy.

His weirdest job may have been in 1979 as the host of "Real People," a news/entertainment hybrid show from "Laugh-In" producer George Schlatter that predicted the rise of viral video, reality television and cable news filler.

Willard's career started to really take off in 1977 when he created Jerry Hubbard, the talk show sidekick to Martin Mull's Barth Gimble on the satirical comedies "Fernwood Tonight" and later "America 2-Night." Hubbard was a friendly-but-clueless man who said whatever popped into his mind, and that shtick became the foundation of Willard's most memorable characters.

Fred became a legend because of his performances in a series of mock documentaries that are among the most beloved modern comedies. Here are some video clips from his funniest work.

'This Is Spinal Tap'

Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary about a fake British band launched the genre and featured Willard as Lt. Hookstratten (weirdly credited as a "colonel in the movie credits), who's in charge of welcoming the talent when the band takes a gig on a U.S. Air Force base as its tour is falling apart.

Willard, ever gracious, tries to let Spinal Tap know that he's a fan. Well, maybe at least of rock music. Or perhaps just music in general.

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/05/18/fred-willard-was-army-veteran-comedy-legend-and-commander-space-force.html

US Military's Mystery Space Plane Rockets Back into Orbit

Well this is interesting

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The U.S. military’s mystery space plane rocketed into orbit again Sunday, this time with an extra load of science experiments.

It’s the sixth flight of an X-37B, a solar-powered plane that's flown by remote control without a crew.

Officials aren't saying how long the spacecraft will remain in orbit this time or the purpose of the mission. But a senior vice president for X-37B developer Boeing, Jim Chilton, noted each mission has been progressively longer.

The previous mission lasted a record two years, with a touchdown shrouded in darkness at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last year.

The winged spacecraft resembles NASA’s old shuttles, but is just one-quarter the size at 29 feet (9 meters) long. The one just launched features an extra compartment for experiments, including several for NASA and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, making it the biggest science load yet for an X-37B.

The Air Force has two of these reusable space planes. Their home base is a former space shuttle hangar at Kennedy.

“You could say that the X-37B stands on the shoulders of the space shuttle,” Chilton said. “From a common shape to a common home.”

Since the first flight in 2010, the secretive space planes had logged a combined 2,865 days in orbit as of Sunday.

“If you add up all the missions, just under eight years in orbit and 1 billion miles, so a lot of traveling by this machine," Chilton said during the launch broadcast.

Delayed a day by bad weather, this marked just the second rocket launch for the newly established Space Force. In March, it hoisted a national security satellite.

United Launch Alliance, which provided the Atlas V rocket, declared success 1 1/2 hours after liftoff. It dedicated Sunday's launch to the health care workers and others who are working on the front lines of the pandemic.

The company said it followed health advice for the launch. Many of the flight controllers wore masks and were spread out.

Precautions were less evident along area causeways, where spectators parked to watch the Atlas soar. Thick, low clouds spoiled the show.

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station has an exceptionally fast turnaround for its next launch.

Before dawn Tuesday, SpaceX will attempt to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites for global internet service. It will be SpaceX's last flight before its first astronaut launch, scheduled for May 27 from next-door Kennedy Space Center.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/18/us-militarys-mystery-space-plane-rockets-back-orbit.html

VA Says it Won’t Stop Use of Unproven Drug on Vets for Now

the fuckers even have the military concerned

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing criticism, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday that it will not halt use of an unproven malaria drug on veterans with COVID-19 but that fewer of its patients are now taking it

Still, it acknowledged that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie had wrongly asserted publicly without evidence that the drug had been shown to benefit younger veterans. The VA, the nation’s largest hospital system, also agreed more study was needed on the drug and suggested its use was now limited to extenuating circumstances, such as last-ditch efforts to save a coronavirus patient’s life.

In the first week of May, 17 patients had received the drug for COVID-19, according to VA data obtained by the AP. The department declined to say how many patients had been treated with hydroxychloroquine for the coronavirus since January, but a recent analysis of VA hospital data showed that hundreds of veterans had taken it by early April.

“VA has not endorsed nor discouraged the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients and has left those decisions to providers and their patients,” the VA said. “While all drugs have the potential for adverse events and some drugs in particular, like hydroxychloroquine, are known to have specific risks, when they are used carefully and judiciously, they can be managed safely.”

In responses provided to Congress and obtained by The Associated Press, the VA said it never “encouraged or discouraged” its government-run hospitals to use hydroxychloroquine on patients even as President Donald Trump heavily promoted the drug for months without scientific evidence of its effectiveness.

As of Friday, 11,883 veterans had been confirmed to be infected with the virus and 985 had died, according to VA statistics.

Responding to written questions from Sen. Jon Tester, the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the department admitted it had no studies or evidence to back up Wilkie’s claim that hydroxychloroquine had shown effectiveness in younger veterans in particular.

“The use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID has dropped off dramatically,” the VA said.

Trump repeatedly has pushed the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, but no large, rigorous studies have found them safe or effective for COVID-19, and they can cause heart rhythm problems and other side effects The Food and Drug Administration has warned against the drug combination and said hydroxychloroquine should only be used for the coronavirus in formal studies.

Two large observational studies

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/16/va-says-it-wont-stop-use-unproven-drug-vets-now.html