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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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The Great Kiss-off

An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

12 comments

  • Noah Peal

    Hilarious! Thanks, ET.

  • John Conyers

    Very funny!

  • Cotour

    Very funny, laughed out loud………………………. but.

    Lets interpret this video in the way that an indoctrinated Liberal, ANTIFA radical or a feminist in the fast approaching minority for the moment future might interpret it.

    This oppressive video is just one more example of a patriarchal society model where the dominant and institutionally controlling Christian males teach and reinforce young and vulnerable females who are exploring and discovering their sexuality and their potential for each of them to love those of the same sex to reject their natural feelings and predilections.

    And the coupe de gras? When the male oppressors in the end scene shame and disgust the vulnerable and developing and as of yet undecided and sexually unassigned androgynous young ladies who were more than likely forced to participate in this vial patriarchal meme exercise by their male DNA donor overlords of control.

    And the final scene where the subservient male dips the symbolic tool into the toilet and then applies it to the mirror, the mirror in which the vulnerable young ladies see themselves everyday and now forever in their shame and disgust! Then the subservient male and the Alpha male bond in laughter as their subjects of control and reprogramming run screaming in disgust from the bathroom, re-instructed.

    As crazy as this interpretation may seem at first to some, and I hope that this video dissection and reexamination exercise has not offended anyone, but its out there. You know its out there, I guarantee it.

  • wayne

    C–
    …it’s funny.
    (let us not interpret it!)

  • Cotour

    Like it or not, offended or not………………its out there.

    That or some version of that is what is bouncing around in some of these political operatives minds and that mind set and learned interpretation and justification is what they use to justify their insanity and actions.

  • wayne

    Susquehanna Hat Company
    https://youtu.be/THZV5g1CNZM
    6:25

  • Cotour

    Classic funny, I have not seen that in some time, thanks for that.

  • wayne: Why do you always post these great videos in a comment, instead of recommending them to me as an evening pause?

  • wayne

    Hey– (no time)
    I must give due credit to one of my customer’s, via joe rogan & joey diaz for the Susquehanna skit.
    There is an excellent animation short of joey diaz ranting about “Susquehanna.” but I won’t directly hot link to it (*adult language*) just search “joe rogans Susquehanna moment” from paulytoons.
    –it’s deeper than it sounds— the hat company in the original is just a “McGuffin,” or as diaz says, a “fugazi.” (and rogan therein, displays his lack of knowledge of Abbot & Costello and he’s a comedian…)
    Anyway….
    comedy is tough, generally trend toward submitting music. (and Edward is the energizer bunny of suggestion’s!)

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    -Definitely Abbott & Costello, over Laurel & Hardy, but the 3 Stooges over either.

  • Cotour

    I have two words for you: Niagara Falls!

  • wayne

    Who is on first, What is on second, and I don’t know is on 3rd…

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