General Discussion, Thursday, January 21, 2016

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    January 21, 2016 at 12:05 am

    Another Fred mix of humor and possible doom:

    The Inevitability of Eugenics: A Race of Self-Designing Tinker Toys [Fred on Everything]

    http://fredoneverything.org/the-inevitability-of-eugenics-a-race-of-self-designing-tinker-toys/

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    January 21, 2016 at 12:08 am

    I chose my twitter avatar better than I knew. B/c as I have to get back to work, you may all…

    A blessed Thursday to everyone!

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  3. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
    January 21, 2016 at 6:04 am

    Morning Mary! It’s 14* with an inch of fresh snow last night.
    Stella, great photo, has to be in Tundra’s AOR! Looks like Nye on the surf board “hanging ten”!

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  4. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
    January 21, 2016 at 7:19 am

    MamaTEA: SITREP on Trump rally!

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    January 21, 2016 at 7:41 am

    Mornin’ y’all!

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  6. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 21, 2016 at 8:09 am

    I saw the movie 13 Hours yesterday. I was going to write about it after I came home, but found I just couldn’t, I was so moved by it. Wow, what a great movie. I thought it was very well done and the actors were wonderful. My friend who went with me kept saying, “And no help ever came.” She was just aware that some people had died in Benghazi before this. I kept wanting to stand up and scream obscenities a the “so-called leaders” who should have sent help. Talk about heroes. These guys are real heroes.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      January 21, 2016 at 8:20 am

      Mom, you should have stood up and scream!! I knew many guys like this many years ago.

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    • Patriot1783's avatar ctdar says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:10 am

      Hubby saw it the other night said was best movie he’s seen in a long time. I knew if I went it would make me madder since that night is still so etched in my mind. Staying up all night watching the news and posting on the tree. The film clips of the billowing black smoke, ransacked building, bloody bathroom, the photos of the handprints scraping off the outside beam as if someone was being dragged away, and the awful photos of ambassador Stevens being paraded thru the streets with shirt and pants undone.
      The events leading up to and the night of September 11, 2012 happened almost 4 years ago….yet still Clinton & Obama not held accountable for their lies and dereliction of duty while Secretary of State and President of the United States.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        January 21, 2016 at 10:17 am

        Mornin’ ctdar!

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      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
        January 21, 2016 at 10:18 am

        Amen, Ctdar.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        January 21, 2016 at 11:12 am

        I felt the same way. I just decided it was my duty to see it. Actually, when the date 9/11 was shown on the screen I started shaking. I had to grab myself by the collar and tell myself to get a grip or I had to leave. So, I got a grip. 🙄

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        January 21, 2016 at 2:51 pm

        Ctdar, yes, well said. My dream of late is this: As Trump takes the oath of Office, when done, Trump walks over to Obola, “Your under Arrest”, FBI agents take that wussy off the platform. As this happens, Hilllabeast and that rapist are Arrested by FBI agents, And everybody who worked for the Clinton Criminal Foundation also are picked up. Now, as Trump leaves the platform, Lois Learner, is picked up by FBI agents. And then I wake up!!!

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    • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
      January 21, 2016 at 5:21 pm

      I applaud your courage. I haven’t mustered the courage to go see it yet. What happened to the guys in Benghazi was the nightmare that played in my mind everytime my DH would go “outside the wire” for days at a time on a mission. It took me a long time to work up the courage to see American Sniper; even then I had to watch in the privacy of my own home on Netflix in case it got to be too much.

      Thanks for the report. I hope that more Americans become aware and begin asking questions. We can only pray it is so.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        January 21, 2016 at 5:39 pm

        You might be better off watching it at home. It is very intense. And, it just occurred to me (now that I have calmed down) that it is amazing that more lives weren’t lost with how long it lasted and the firepower and numbers against them. I think that really says something about the training and the courage of the heroes that there weren’t more deaths.

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        • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
          January 21, 2016 at 5:41 pm

          You are correct … I am a HUGE woosie when it comes to graphic violence. In the movie theatres, I will hide my head in my DH’s lap. The betrayal … I don’t think I’m emotionally armed to deal with the confrontation of that on the big screen in a room filled with strangers. I will most likely break down emotionally.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            January 21, 2016 at 5:54 pm

            Exactly. That is what caused me trouble. When the date 9/11 came up on the screen I went ballistic. I had to calm down. All I could think of was “help wasn’t coming.”

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      • tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
        January 21, 2016 at 6:14 pm

        Americans are aware. But no matter what we know and what we learn, nothing is done about it. That is the most troubling thing to me. Outright criminal acts just being swept off the floor as if they are nothing. Lives lost and an attitude of what difference does it make. She couldn’t have said it better because it makes none to her or any of them that protect her and Obama.

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      • Patriot1783's avatar ctdar says:
        January 21, 2016 at 10:49 pm

        I couldnt watch American Sniper until movie came out on video either. I still left the room at the end, couldnt watch. no way that horrible day wasn’t a set up. Someone as bright as Chris Kyle would never put himself in questionable circumstances, had to have been ambush.

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  7. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:16 am

    Good morning everyone! Another beautiful day in the United States!

    No matter how much I complain (winter and all), I still believe the way I did as a child – how lucky I am to be born in the greatest country in the world.

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  8. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Breakfast!

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  9. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:55 am

    Flint, MI is not a Republican Scandal

    National Review essay. Really good one, too.

    It’s all a Democrat scandal. Flint (and it’s big bruh, Detroit) has ALWAYS been a Democrat failure. Just like every other city they control.

    FTA:

    …that is the Democrats’ approach to calculating the chain of responsibility: Go up the ladder or down, as needed, until a Republican is located, or a private firm, in which case capitalism can be blamed. The Democratic monopolies in Flint, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark? Somehow, somewhere, there’s a Republican responsible for that, even if he has to be brought in on an overnight flight from Oklahoma.

    Ex-mayor Ray Nagin is smiling thinking of Flint.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:19 am

      It’s so sad. Heartbreaking, even, what the Democrats have done and continue to do.

      Just as sad that Republicans won’t stop any of it, or even speak out. They just take the blame like a whipping-boy, with hardly a complaint.

      SD is right. It’s a UniParty.

      How many people in FEMA, during and after Katrina, were Republicans? I’m going to go ahead and guess NONE. All SEIU minions. So then, we must go up the ladder and find a Republican to blame.

      I hope Trump fires everyone in Washington, D.C., and makes them all submit applications and resumes anew.

      Every single person, in every single agency.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
        January 21, 2016 at 11:24 am

        If Reagan fired all the Air Traffic Controllers, and Obama fired everyone in the entire Federal Judiciary, then Trump can fire everyone at the EPA. And OSHA. And the IRS. And every other lawless agency that is making de-facto laws all day, as their job.

        Fire them ALL. Re-submit applications on Jan 21, after inauguration. We will review them. And we will check your FB posts. And we will look at your bumper stickers.

        Adults only need apply.

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        • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
          January 21, 2016 at 5:29 pm

          I think I would settle for all of our Veterans genuinely having priority for the meaningful jobs in DC, especially our combat-wounded veterans. Veterans make up less than 1% of the total population, did the unbearable selflessly as was asked of them, but have no one really in their corner – aside from Trump.

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  10. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    January 21, 2016 at 10:02 am

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 10:12 am

    Good for him!

    Former Mozilla CEO Chased Off by SJWs Announces New Internet Browser ‘Brave’

    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/20/copy-new-internet-browser-brave-announced/

    Ousted Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has a new Internet browser, and it’s nothing less than you’d expect from the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of the company behind FireFox.

    Brave is a new browser that aims to “fix the Web.” How? By blocking everything except the content you explicitly want. That means no ads, no cookies, nothing that you haven’t personally requested from the Internet. The exceptions are extremely specific, and the approach is as aggressive as the ads themselves.

    I’m taking a look, and maybe giving it a try. I’ll let you know what I find out.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:22 am

      Its still in beta, and the install process is tedious, but I’m happy about this, too.

      Eich got booted from Mozilla because Democrats found out he donated a couple hundred bucks to California’s Prop 8, five years prior to his getting booted.

      I hope he eats Mozilla and spits out the bones.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:28 am

      The scientist who worked all his life to make a spacecraft actually land on a comet was also forced to resign, in tears, after the post-event press conference, during which he wore a tee-shirt with sexy anime girls on it.

      This is SJWs. It’s what they do.

      That guy should have said “F.U.” while wearing a Confederate Flag shirt.

      Never apologize to SJWs.

      I’m really happy for Eich.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:40 am

      That will be tough to do. It was always the problem of getting the web page authors to follow the HTML programing rules in the first place. Now that nobody knows how to program by hand anymore and just use tools or framework (like WP) it’s more up to the tool programmers to follow the rules of the browser maker now days.
      Look at the text only browser, lynx. It’s been around since the early 90’s. This web site is a huge pain to navigate using lynx, but everything is blocked except formatting and text.

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      • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
        January 21, 2016 at 5:36 pm

        My youngest just started her first IT internship. She confirms what you state, that the majority of them have no idea how to program or understand programming logic. When she comes home and tells me some of the work “gossip” about how her fellow interns are floundering, I despair that any of the follow on generation will ever rise to the equivalent of sending a man to the moon.

        Homeschool people, for G-d’s sake, Please!

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          January 21, 2016 at 5:50 pm

          For your youngest with my condolences;

          http://www.bofhcam.org/pfy/leatherman.txt

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          • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
            January 21, 2016 at 6:01 pm

            Lol. I will share with her. She’s at a school which is kinda known for its computer stuff (*cough “Fear the Tree” cough*) and the majority of her classes are filled with types who got perfect SATs etc but can’t logic their way out of a paperbag. She got in on as a recurited athlete in an esoteric sport, but still had excellent grades (4.3) and a strong SAT score – but had reams of other experiences, including teaching herself to code in hotel rooms all over the world. She is mystified how the “smartest kids in teh room” in her cohort want to be spoonfed and told the “right answer” instead of seeking genuine learning, and apparently, it’s more of the same in the internship cubicle farm.

            I guess I take as a “good sign” her immediate boss bought her an engraved Cross pen as a “first week of work anniversary” present and told her she’s a valuable asset to them and she’s already doing client work unsupervised (week three).

            I told her she doesn’t need to share that in the cubicle farm.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          January 21, 2016 at 5:57 pm

          Are you at a career crossroads? Are you asking “Should I become an astronaut, a firefighter, or a system administrator?” Here is a handy comparison chart that may help you make your decision.

          PURPOSE OF YOUR CAREER
          Astronaut: Advancing scientific knowledge for the good of humanity.
          Firefighter: Saving lives and property.
          Sysadmin: Assuring uninterrupted access to alt.binaries.erotica.sheep.

          ADVICE YOU’LL GIVE KIDS WHO WANT TO FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS
          Astronaut: “Study science and math and eat your vegetables.”
          Firefighter: “Study science and math and eat your vegetables.”
          Sysadmin: “DON’T DO IT! RUN AWAY!”

          QUESTION YOU’LL BE MOST TIRED OF ANSWERING
          Astronaut: “Where do you go to the bathroom?”
          Firefighter: “Do you really slide down a pole when the alarm goes off?”
          Sysadmin: “Can’t you do anything about all this spam I’ve been getting?”

          WILL YOU EVER BE ON TV?
          Astronaut: Yes!
          Firefighter: Occasionally.
          Sysadmin: Only MSNBC’s “The Site,” which doesn’t technically count as TV.

          WILL YOUR JOB EVER GET ANY EASIER?
          Astronaut: As computers get more and more advanced and able to control more of the functions of the space vehicle, yes.
          Firefighter: As more and more people install smoke detectors in their homes, yes.
          Sysadmin: As more and more clueless newbies discover the Internet, absolutely not.

          INSPIRING MOVIE ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION
          Astronaut: “The Right Stuff”
          Firefighter: “Backdraft”
          Sysadmin: Uh… gee, I’m really drawing a blank here… “Wargames”?

          YOUR WORK HOURS
          Astronaut: Fairly long days during the mission, but lots and lots of time between missions to relax.
          Firefighter: 24-hour shifts, but 48 hours between shifts to relax.
          Sysadmin: Not really “work hours” or even “work days”… more like “work millenia.”

          FRINGE BENEFITS OF YOUR JOB
          Astronaut: Lots of good stories to tell to impress members of the opposite sex.
          Firefighter: Lots of good stories to tell to impress members of the opposite sex.
          Sysadmin: You get ALL of the jokes in “Dilbert.”

          NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION
          Astronaut: A few, from people who think the government should be spending its money in different ways.
          Firefighter: A few, from people who think you take too long to arrive following a 911 call.
          Sysadmin: You’ll have to learn what comes after “trillion” to be able to count them all.

          YOUR VEHICLE
          Astronaut: Multimillion-dollar space vehicle atop multi million dollar rocket.
          Firefighter: Big red truck with flashing lights and siren.
          Sysadmin: 1978 AMC Gremlin.

          In conclusion, if the sysadmin option has seemed the most appealing in even one of these categories, you should become a sysadmin.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:48 am

      And it’s not just an ad-blocker.

      Websites rely on ad revenue, and Brave is going to be a balancing act in this regard.

      If I go to SD’s site with an ad blocker mod on my browser, he doesn’t get any money from my perusal of his site. So I don’t do that at CTH.

      I do, on the other hand, at Gateway Pundit, which is loaded to the gills, (and out the yin-yang, even) with intrusive code and ads and trackers. Hoft’s site has become an internet travesty. It’s horrible, the advertising code on his site. It could be such a good site, too, but he relies on these sub-moral companies to show me nothing but click-bait ads.

      I hope Brave is going to be the browser that is the “one weird trick” and the “you won’t believe this one secret method” that will make me never see “one weird trick” ads again.

      From what I understand, Brave is going to allow ads, but none of the underlying code that is embedded in these ads. Especially the malware-installing, behavior-tracking code.

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      • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
        January 21, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Websites rely on ad revenue,

        I’m sorry, but that is not a true statement. People rely on a faulty business model using advertisements to make money.

        My company has had a website since 1997 and never had one external advertisement.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 11:41 am

          Your website is a business tool, for you and your customers, I believe. It’s a business expense, rather than income.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
            January 21, 2016 at 11:55 am

            Exactly. Websites that are commenter-driven and -viewed are different.

            List ’em. Breitbart, Malkin, CTH, Stella’s, American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, PJ Media…

            Some of those are money-making sites. But most are making their money via unconscionable digital morals.

            “One weird trick.”

            “You won’t believe this thing!”

            So sick of it all.

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            • Stella's avatar stella says:
              January 21, 2016 at 11:59 am

              I don’t get revenue from ads because I don’t have enough traffic. So far, I am a “non-profit”.

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            • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
              January 21, 2016 at 6:12 pm

              “SD has stated that his “business model” is not the same as Jim Hoft’s.”

              I am curious (at the risk of incurring our hostess Stella’s ire) what *exactly* did SD claim his “business model” was?

              From my perspective, his “business model” seems to consist of appropriating other people’s work without full attribution, or completely making sh*t up (Benghazi) to be seen as an all-seeing Oracle, and lying about installing WordAds and tracking software, that follows you long after you’ve left the site to maximize his revenue, all the while claiming “no one was making any money” at the Tree, and selfishly exploiting the volunteer hours of the other Admins, while pocketing the cash, including donations made specifically to other Admins and the “Treehouse Gang” entirely for himself?

              And… in the classic hallmark of a true grifter, when confronted with same, instead of answering honestly and fully, deflecting by accusing others of being “unstable”? (For pointing out his complete lack of honesty and integrity …)

              But other than that, sure, I can see how SD would be a completely trustworthy and honest person worthy of your support and admiration.

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
                January 21, 2016 at 6:23 pm

                He didn’t actually say anything but what I stated regarding the CTH “business model”.

                It was in response to a rant of mine a year or so ago about TGP’s crazy glut of ads.

                The CTH business model is “Truth has no agenda.” And that’s pretty much it, which is why I go there. That and Nyet’s breakfasts.

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
                January 21, 2016 at 6:25 pm

                I didn’t know that I was opening a can of worms, when I opened that can of worms.

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              • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                January 21, 2016 at 11:49 pm

                I’m sorry. I guess sometimes success changes a person.

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          • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
            January 21, 2016 at 11:59 am

            My website a pain in the butt that I have to go update.
            taqiyyologist made an all-inclusive statement. The website ad-revenue business model has always been faulty and based on a lie. It was a way to tell investors a website would make money no matter what, so please give us a million dollars anyway.
            It’s always been a house of cards that everyone uses the data collected to track everything.
            Little people only get paid to keep everyone using the business model.

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            • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
              January 21, 2016 at 12:39 pm

              Are you saying you don’t approve of bloggers making money? I’m not following where you are going here nyet.

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              • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
                January 21, 2016 at 1:20 pm

                Except I did say “some” and “most”, so it wasn’t really all-inclusive.

                SD has stated that his “business model” is not the same as Jim Hoft’s.

                Stella has no finacial business model at all.

                I just don’t like the devious.

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                January 21, 2016 at 1:46 pm

                I’m sorry taqiyyologist, but I didn’t read the words “some” or “most” is your opening statement. The American public and business owners have been brainwashed that things in IT exist when they don’t.

                “Innovation strategy” – greatest bunch of BS double speak created. Consultants, businesses, companies, books, videos, lectures, software licenses. Billions of dollars per year industry created overnight. Nobody knew what it was, even the book authors and consultants. Nobody wanted to seem stupid or unqualified so nobody asked in public what the hell the company innovation strategy was or why they had to have a innovation officer position at a six figure salary per year.
                Before the computer, it was called a “suggestion box”. Customers or employees would fill out a little card and drop it in the slot at the top of the box.

                “The cloud” – Pure BS. I have to go….. for now….

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            • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
              January 21, 2016 at 6:19 pm

              Yes. The real money is in the data brokerage.
              I’ve decided to be an Amazon Affiliate, and link to books, etc that we are discussing with the upfront adage that they are being sent to a product link. If people choose to buy, fine, and they are under no obligation to do so. Our readers seem to be happy with that arrangement, and feel that the info we are providing and discussing is of value to them.

              I vowed I would never subsidize a webblog out of my own pocket ever again, so now that our website has generated some cash through Amazon sales, we’re hiring an intern to work on the page and marketing, and will pay to turn off the tracking ads.

              We’ve managed to cause two books and self-install door armor to be “sold out” on Amazon, with back orders … so it seems to be a model that is working for us, so far.

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              • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
                January 21, 2016 at 6:28 pm

                Maybe I shouldn’t be so harsh about advertising revenue. I know lots of people that do it. Since I do physical things (smoke/drink) I’ve never bothered.

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                • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
                  January 21, 2016 at 6:40 pm

                  I think my issue isn’t the “ad revenue” per se, as that’s obvious, it’s the hidden data mining and tracking through the ad revenue, which I have a problem with as I see it as inherently dishonest (no matter who is using it). And – it can also be used for other purposes other than to just sell you stuff … speaking as the spouse of a former spook, IFYKWIMAITYD. What they are prohibited from by law from tracking on their own, they can legally buy with Congressional blessing from a data broker… capische??

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        • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
          January 21, 2016 at 5:40 pm

          There are many revenue models. “Ad revenue” isn’t the only choice and in my experience, it tends to p*ss people off.

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    • YTZ4mee's avatar ytz4mee says:
      January 21, 2016 at 5:26 pm

      I wish him all the success with this. I don’t know if his new product will be compatible with Linux, but I will have to check it out!

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 10:29 am

    On this day in 1954, the world’s first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN-571), is christened and launched at Groton, Conn.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 10:54 am

      I bought a bag of pot across the river from there, long ago.

      While on the crew of the Kentucky (SSBN 737), yet to be completed.

      It was not a good time in my life.

      General Dynamics is one great company, though.

      I was in Navy jail for AWOL when the Kentucky was in the first round of sea trials. With a whole bunch of junkies and drug-dealers.

      Somehow I got an Honorable. Had to be God.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
        January 21, 2016 at 10:56 am

        Whenever I meet a sailor who did serve honorably, I thank them.

        Because I sure didn’t.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 11:08 am

          My brother served in the Navy in WWII, on the hospital ship, USS Comfort. They were struck by a kamikaze attack off Okinawa in April, 1945. He was not injured, but had friends who were killed.

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          • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
            January 21, 2016 at 11:13 am

            I wish I had served honorably, and had been adult enough to even think to do so.

            I was just a stupid hippie, then. I made a choice to go in, with no knowledge whatsoever. They let me out, because Downsizing, I guess. Honorable, though it wasn’t.

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
        January 21, 2016 at 11:02 am

        C.O.B. Zollars told me, while I was trying my butt off to get processed out because I was a lazy hippie, “You’ll never amount to anything.”

        He was a gruff Master Chief. I probably just replied, “Ok.”

        I hope to meet him again someday. I don’t want to punch him, or anything. He’s probably over 100 now, anyway. I just want to show him that he was wrong.

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        • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
          January 21, 2016 at 11:06 am

          Everyone in New London thought I was a “narc”. That Navy haircut.

          I just wanted to smoke a joint. I found a Beavis and Butthead couple of buds, they put me in this empty apartment and told me to wait. And I gave them my navy I.D. for collateral.

          I sat on a dirty mattress, on the floor of this apartment, for a good hour and a half.

          Sure enough, these two came through with a dime bag. I smoked it all with them, as I told them I would, and then went back to the base.

          It was a strange year for me. And not at all happy.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 11:10 am

      I know that base, though.

      Picked up trash on it for about six weeks.

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 21, 2016 at 11:15 am

    I look forward to reading your report. 🙂

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 21, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Samuel Jackson has a happy 🙂

    That’s not very zen! Buddhist monk is jailed for 162-car tyre-slashing rampage after he accidentally stepped on an insect

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3409765/Buddhist-monk-jailed-162-car-tyre-slashing-rampage-accidentally-stepped-insect.html

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  15. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    January 21, 2016 at 12:08 pm

    My favorite way to kill yellowjackets is to slap them, hard, toward the ground.

    That immediately stuns them, and they lay twitching, on the ground.

    Then you step on them.

    Then their friends and family come, and you run.

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  16. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    January 21, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    This is why I don’t trust humane societies, especially in areas where the cops side with them and then you add stupid neighbors and you can’t even let a dog play outside, much less live outside.

    These types would probably lock me up and throw away the key if they knew I had dogs who spend their entire lives outside guarding farm animals. There are times when it’s bitter cold and snowing and instead of being in a warm barn, they’re outside guarding the barn or walking the property line scaring away any predators.

    http://www.ksfy.com/home/headlines/Family-speaks-out-after-dog-is-seized-by-animal-control-365862441.html

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 1:26 pm

      SJWs.

      They just do what they do to justify their existence.

      While what they do is ample justification for their joining the ranks of the unemployable.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        January 21, 2016 at 2:13 pm

        I can’t believe we live in a country where you can be arrested for having a dog or child playing in your yard.
        I also can’t imagine having neighbors who would call the police on you because your dog was playing in the yard.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 2:28 pm

          I have a neighbor who put a note on my door because I let my dog out at 7:00 am and, apparently, she barked. I still think it was another dog that sounds like her (there is one). I didn’t hear her, and I usually do. He was upset because he was working afternoons at the time. I have found that neighbors can be incredibly nosy.

          ADD: He lives two houses down from me. Just about everybody in our neighborhood has a dog, and most of them bark.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            January 21, 2016 at 2:58 pm

            I live in an apartment. A neighbor directly next door once accused me of turning my dog out in the middle of the night and she was barking and waking her up. She just wouldn’t believe I never let her out in the middle of the night. She kept insisting.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 2:31 pm

          When I lived in my last house, we got a ticket from animal control because my daughter’s dog was barking inside the house when we weren’t home. We had a busy body neighbor there – an old man who was retired and grouchy. He probably stood on our porch, and she barked at him – in other words, she was doing her job. He called the police on everybody for minor reasons. Anyway, she had to go to court to try to get the ticket overturned. She still had to pay $50 in court costs. It was a learning experience for her, while she watched a shoplifter released on her own recognizance – no fines, no jail time.

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  17. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    This is interesting.

    The most Googled products in every country in one crazy map

    http://www.techinsider.io/google-cost-searches-2015-4

    NOTE: Prostitution is considered “recreation”

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  18. tessa50's avatar tessa50 says:
    January 21, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-braces-for-worst-cold-in-30-years/ar-BBovvKK?ocid=HPCDHP

    “It will be below freezing in over 90 percent of the world’s most populous country, according to the official Xinhua news agency.”

    Hi everyone. Haven’t read yet, will be back later. Hope all are having a good day!

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  20. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    January 21, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    BOOM! goes the artillery…

    Victor Davis Hanson:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430056/hillary-clinton-scandals-finances-hypocritical

    Oh, this is good.

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  21. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    January 21, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    I just got a really good laugh on FB.
    On one of the farm groups this lady was giving away hens. She said she had broke her foot and couldn’t take care of them. She loved her girls dearly and would only let them go to a good forever home because she had raised them from chicks. She wanted pictures of their new home and wanted you to meet them.
    That was enough to make me laugh, then of course you had all these folks who would take them and give them a good home and would treat them like pets.
    I was having to sit on my hands to not comment, then some fellow Okies did what I was trying my hardest not to do.
    They started posting pics of plates, pots and roasting pans.
    That of course started a FB war, which still was pretty darn hilarious.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      January 21, 2016 at 7:39 pm

      I can’t understand having chickens as pets. Except for a banty hen I had as a kid – but it was given to somebody as a pet, who gave it to us, and it was tamed and pretty smart, as chickens go.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        January 21, 2016 at 7:45 pm

        I’ll never get it either. My kids when they were younger would turn chickens into their pets. They had a few over the years that would follow them wherever they went and fly up into their lap.
        They had a hen one time that they called peep, she got killed by a dog. I knew the older two were old enough to understand, the youngest one was only about 4 so I figured he would cry. Instead he said, “well I guess we’ll have to raise another peep.”

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      • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
        January 21, 2016 at 7:47 pm

        Chickens are mean. They stand on the weak chickens — like, all day until they die.

        They are weak. If you let it rain on chickens, they drown.

        When you twist their heads off like you’re spinning a bag of bread, you get a bad taste in your mouth.

        Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Sweet Baby Ray’s on some pulled chicken, but damn.

        It sucks to be a chicken.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 7:50 pm

          The roosters are mean. The chickens are just stupid.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          January 21, 2016 at 10:19 pm

          It’s not so much that they’re mean as it is they are stupid. They pile on each other like that because they’re stupid.
          Now sometimes roosters will get mean and so will hens, but they don’t get to stay mean for long around me and they go into the pot. Flog me once and you’re dinner. My DH will give the roosters he likes the way they look more chances and will just kick them, not me they can be a very pretty rooster and flog me and their days are over.

          As dumb as chickens are though, they aren’t as dumb as turkeys. Turkeys are the dumbest birds alive and turkeys are even nastier than chickens.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 7:44 pm

      If I were there, I’d be posting brine recipes.

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  22. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    I Accidentally Found Even More Awful Things Inside Obamacare

    http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/21/i-accidentally-found-even-more-awful-things-inside-obamacare/

    The summary:


    Earn More Money, Get Worse Healthcare

    Then it dawned on me: the Democrats had struck again. It wasn’t enough to merely grant subsidies to lower-income people so they could buy coverage. No, lower-income earners deserved better coverage, too. The incentive was clear: earn less and get better benefits. Earn more, and pay the price with worse insurance coverage.

    I still hardly believe it. I still shake my head. But now that the sun is shining on the rules, the game is afoot. Unfortunately, it is a game with lousy rules that incentivize the wrong actions. What a mess.

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  23. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 21, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    Hmm, I just saw that Obama showed an interviewer what he carries in his pocket, a rosary, a Hindu Monkey God, a Coptic Cross, and a lucky poker chip.

    Wait what?

    He carries no symbol or token of Islam? The religion that he equates to the most beautiful sound on earth? The religion of his childhood? Nothing? Pfftt…..

    What a bad actor.

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  24. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 21, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    BTW I caught a few minutes of Rush today and he said the Trump “either by design or chance” was saying words that connected with people who have traditional American values.

    It really made me angry. What a lowdown backhanded slap at Trump. Did it ever occur to Rush that the words Trump speaks are sincere?

    I don’t get angry when I listen to folks like Chris Mathews because he has declared himself an ideologue, there is no backstabbing going on with Chris, he hates me and my values, I can live with that. Mathew’s doesn’t hide his hate under phony stabs. I don’t like or respect Mathews but he doesn’t make me angry.

    Rush on the other hand has really teed me off with his wolf in sheep’s clothing routine when it comes to Trump.

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    • Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
      January 21, 2016 at 9:00 pm

      Don’t listen, Lovely.

      I stopped listening to radio yellers years ago, and now I’m four days ahead of Rush.

      Heck, the only reason I ever listened to Rush was because he was four days ahead of the five newspapers I read each day. (Boston Globe., Boston Herald, NYT, WSJ, USA Today)

      I’m a MUCH happier person now that I know more than Rush, four days before he does, and I don’t have people like him, and Hannity, and Levin, and Savage, yelling what I already knew in my ears.

      The other day at work, two guys got into a political argument. About the Electoral College or how our votes don’t matter or something. I didn’t say a word. Eight years ago I would have jumped into that like an Irishman into a fight. But I was like “Wow, look at what I used to do!!” as I observed and listened to their bullsh&t argument.

      It was like watching two guys who know nothing about cars having an angry argument about cars.

      And I used to do it all the time. As if I was an expert on politics or society or religion.

      Its like being on the outside looking in, now, Lovely.

      It’s a Wonderful Life

      Quitiing talk radio, after quitting TV, was an amazing, liberating thing for me. Now, I comment, but I seldom,.if ever, ARGUE. Just love.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        January 21, 2016 at 9:33 pm

        HI Taqi,

        I don’t listen much to talk radio. I enjoyed our local guys and gal up until the Trump took the election by storm and the men anyhow arched their backs every time they said Trump. I haven’t caught our local female commentator so I don;t know her opinion on Trump.

        I didn’t have a TV for 14 years. I decided to get one about 10 years ago and I’m not sorry for the time I didn’t have a TV but I’m not sorry now that I have one. Probably my favorite pastime is watching and reading people, so I find a lot of stuff fascinating.

        Anyhow thanks for your thoughts 🙂

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          January 21, 2016 at 9:37 pm

          When I was still working, I listened to talk radio all day (with ear buds). It helped minimize interruptions by deadening ambient noise, and people were hesitant to interrupt me when I was “plugged in”. Since I’ve been home, I hardly ever listen, and I don’t really miss it that much. I do watch more television, but different programs than in the past. I dropped regular cable, so I bounce around from PBS to some of the Roku channels, and watch OAN for news.

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  25. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    Here’s Obama’s motorcade, trying to get back to the White House from Air Force One:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-obamas-motorcade-slip-and-slide-through-snowy-streets-605902915910

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  26. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Only six people showed up to greet Hillary in Beaumont, TX – and she ignored them!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNj2ScPW-eg

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  27. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    To all those here who love their bacon, you can have your bacon and fewer muslim immigrants, too. 🙂
    “Let There Be Pork: Denmark Sends Message to Muslim Migrants
    Did somebody say bacon?”
    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/let-there-be-pork-denmark-sends-message-muslim-migrants

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  28. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    January 21, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    The problem for her is that she probably just lost 6 votes.

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  29. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    January 21, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Good gawd. The LSM is really diggin’ for dirt. Woody Guthrie hated Trump’s dad. In the 1950’s. 🙄

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/woody-guthrie-really-did-not-like-donald-trump’s-racist-dad/ar-BBowZsM?li=BBnbfcL

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  30. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    January 21, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    I’ll bet all those in-bred goat humpers are real upset about this. Some grand muffalata over in Iranistan has outlawed chess. I know that most of the chess grand masters I’ve read about over the last two centuries all came out of that craphole. 🙄 🙄

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chess-forbidden-in-islam-rules-saudi-arabia-grand-mufti/ar-BBowhI1?li=BBnbcA1

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  31. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    January 21, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Smiles.

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