General Discussion, Monday, May 2, 2016

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Stella
Prairie smoke blossoms

Prairie smoke blossoms

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  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 2, 2016 at 12:09 am

    I’ve never seen those before–very pretty!

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 2, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Fred in good form:

    The Mask Comes Off: Putrefaction Most Foul

    http://fredoneverything.org/the-mask-comes-off-putrefaction-most-foul/

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 2, 2016 at 12:45 am

      Again, what makes anyone think this place is still a democracy? Y’all feel that Hillary or Her (just gettin’ used to referring to her in the capital letters) International carpetbagger hubby are just figuring how hard they screw us and who’ll get to pick over our bones (higest bidder, no doubt)?
      Hillary’s already signaled she and her progressive cabal have their sights firmly set on the destruction of the 2nd Amendment with the 1st not far behind. The Feds will have the power and the states will fall in line or suffer the consequences. Her and Bill’s einsatzgrippen, or should we instead say ‘grupos operatovos’, will have a field day suppressing dissent as they finally get a Supreme Court that will help them carry out the programs Bill tried to enact during his reign. Backed by millions of grateful non-citizens with drivers licences and voter IDs she’s got a pretty good following that will vote, probably more than once, to get Her elected. I wonder, considering the ocean of money she’s accreted selling thevtatter remnants of her soul, who’ll own us after November 8th?

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        May 2, 2016 at 9:33 am

        Good article by “Fred”. This “Club” has been around before the Republic was formed. If the Beast does win, by massive voter fraud, the Republic will be on its knees, and there will be a reconing against the political class.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 2, 2016 at 10:28 am

          In think she’s going to won, and maybe the RATS get Senate back. Look at the huge amounts of cash being dumped into her campaign, the levels of RAT-leaning voters energized by the promise of a Disneyland future, those voters not as interested in the future of the country as they are the hollow desire to be part of electing the first woman president, and the list goes on.
          The RATS see the death of the conservstive movement as a viable political reality this fall. A few red states will remain but the voting power will make its deciding shift to the left. The Republicans can continue to have their receding strongholds and continue to feed off of them, the RATS can wait to root out the pockets of conservstive power one by one. They see their chance to destroy us as we once saw our chance tobdestroybthem. Difference is they won’t smile and go back to grazing; they won’t sit by and let us lick our wounds while massing our forces for a comeback, they’ll hamstring us pick us off at leisure.
          Look at what they see: a liberal activist president, a RAT Senate and a leftist Supreme Court, all handed to them by a pruned and tended electorate. Not a bad deal from a party that should and could have been finished off during the Reagan administration.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        May 2, 2016 at 10:10 am

        Her (just gettin’ used to referring to her in the capital letters)

        this is her goal, but frankly it won’t even come from my hand if hell freezes over. She is and always will be The Beast.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          May 2, 2016 at 10:41 am

          But She’s gonna be OUR Beast. She’ll have access to real power and all of the enforcement elements that come with it. She learned from Bill’s term and everything afternit, even the POtuS seemed to be wary of her, appointing her to power positions despite her attacks upon him in 2008. Granted the puppets pulling his strings were behind it but still…
          Our old friend Soros is putting lots of $$$$$$ into her campaign so you can bet he’ll continue his program of weakening the US to a second world state while profiting from it. Bill’s usi g his foundation’s cash, Hollyork is going for a full court press, the MSM’s staying in line… Meantime what’s the Republican Party doing?

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          • lovely's avatar lovely says:
            May 2, 2016 at 11:11 am

            She ‘ll be The Beast, never my Beast.

            She will use her power, treachery and black soul to try and steal the presidency. She may succeed.Trump needs a phenomenal machine and safe guards in place to beat her.

            Two things The Beast has working against her is 1) her mental competency. She either has a bug in her ear or has some medication that makes her lucid sometimes for hours at a time, but there is something fundamentally wrong with her cognitive skills and it is a apparent whenever she starts to decline in public. And her long public absences. This is going to work to Trump’s advantage as he can throw her off her game. One thing she has a very difficult time controlling is her anger whenever someone hits a sore spot and especially if they don’t acquiesce to her initial answer. Trump is watching and knows this and he knows a lot of Hillary’s weaknesses.

            Something that Trump does that is very subtle is remind his enemies that the has a dossier on each of them. Remember Rubio’s face when Trump brought up the house flipping scam, Bush’s face when Trump brought up Saudi Arabia and the Bush Family ties, Cruz and the Goldman Sachs signature bond, remember how quickly he shared Grahm’s phone number, the plaque from Walker, the extortion letter from Club for Growth and on and on.

            Trump has already winked in the direction of Sharpton, Sharpton said some nonsense about Trump and Trump said, “Look Al Sharpton has his schtick, I have a letter form him when he said something nasty about me in the past and he sent me a letter apologizing and said “You know Don I gotta do it because it’s what is expected of me.”

            Hillary has the power, the insider knowledge, and the benefit of Bill’s presidency and lessons learned there, coupled with the ruthless soul of a Pol Pot wannabe she is no less a force of evil than the likes of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadior.

            That said, Trump has a dossier on The Beast, Trump has the will of the people supporting him, Trump is willing to fight and is not intimidated by The Beast nor is he intimidated by the LSM chastising him for picking on the poor little damsel in distress.

            A battle of the titans may be underway.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              May 2, 2016 at 11:43 am

              She’ll be ‘our’ Beast as Hitler was the Beasy of the Germans whondidn’t support him, the Jews, Gypsies and other ‘less than Master Progressives’ whom he inflicted himself upon. Like a disease you didn’t ask for is yours, you didn’t ask to be infected, you worked your hardest not to become infected, but all the same…
              Trump still has an uphill battle, he has a large following but all too often enthusiasm doesn’t translate into action, gettin’ ’em to the polls in large enough numbers is the key. The RAT mechanism to transport RAT tools to thebpolls, legal and illegal, is well oiled and highly functional, the Republican hierarchy won’t spare funds from their gala patties to do anything like it. You Know Who’s funding elections being stolen while Reince is mulling over the canapé selection at the ‘too bad we lost’ party.
              Gotta face it – sometime evil just wins.

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              • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                May 2, 2016 at 1:29 pm

                Do you think there will ever be a another civil war or revolt here in the United States? I am interested in anybody and everybody’s thoughts on this.

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                • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                  May 2, 2016 at 1:34 pm

                  Looks to me like we are headed for total chaos in the streets, total anarchy. And, it is being orchestrated by that bunch of criminals in the WH. I don’t know what we will call it.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 1:35 pm

                    And, it is beginning NOW.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 1:54 pm

                    I agree that we are headed toward chaos.

                    The ignoramus minions and thugs that attack cops, perpetrate knock out crimes, go on wilding sprees, rape at will, rob at will, have no respect for a civil society are the spawn of the Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, Ryans, Romneys, Sharptons, Jacksons, the pompous Hollywood elites who live like kings while bemoaning the lot of poor folks, 98% of MSM and all those people (well maybe not Hollywood and MSM) should know that they will be the first to suffer at the hands of the monsters that have created once their creation decides that the only thing that is keeping them from storming the homes of the elites is their own feet.

                    It will be both interesting and terrifying to live through the coming storm of well armed, well trained, well supplied and reasonable thinking patriots defending their homes and families against the hordes of rampaging wilding savages who feel entitled to take whatever and whoever they can by force.

                    God’s mercy.

                    And, Yes Nyet I know that it didn’t start with the Clintons 😉 and it is not the first time the peasants, savages and overlords will come to pitchforks, spears and Tavors 😉

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  May 2, 2016 at 1:53 pm

                  I don’t see the Conservatives revolting as we’re sorta in a reactive mode, too steeped in law and order. The Left is generally the group that goes into full-blown militant revolt as they use the youth, disaffected thugs and other societal outliers who tend to be more active and have less to lose. It’s easier to clean up those revolutionaries the Left is left with after the win, look at the Russian purges and Hitler cleaning up the SA.
                  The Conservatives have a vested interest in the status quo, everything thry’ve worked for is on the line while the Left’s entire purpose is to, as George Carlin would say, ‘steal their s**t’. I don’t see the Conservatives going to the streets, I see them staying close to home and compromising to keep what they can. Less of a revolutionary bang than an evolutionary whimper.

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 2:00 pm

                    I don’t see the Conservatives going to the streets, I see them staying close to home and compromising to keep what they can.

                    I’m not sure we are going to have the luxury of compromise or sitting it out. I think when the dam breaks that the modern day barbarians (read liberals) will go mad, literally attacking anyone who does not have the sign of the Beast on their forehead. I’m not sure what that sign will be but I do think that the scale is so tipped that there is going to be a purge of some of the population. Who knows the barbarians may go totally crazy and attack each other it wouldn’t be the first time.

                    Liberals have bitten the tail of the tiger so many times eventually they are going to have to deal with the consequences.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 2:11 pm

                    That will make the Agenda 21 folks happy. They want to decrease the population.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 4:17 pm

                    Let me clarify my point: I do find progressives revolting

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                  • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                    May 2, 2016 at 5:40 pm

                    Yes, Czar, I know you find progressives revolting 🙂 . Doesn’t every normal ordered human being?

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  3. Jacqueline Taylor Robson's avatar Jacqueline Taylor Robson says:
    May 2, 2016 at 12:13 am

    Good morning! Very pretty blossoms in that photo. I’ve not seen those before, unusual, but really beautiful.

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  4. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 2, 2016 at 12:41 am

    Just picked this up on Facebook. Taken about 45 minutes ago over Lake Superior at Marquette:

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  5. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    May 2, 2016 at 1:14 am

    This looks very useful–chronological layout, themes highlighted, etc:

    THE KORAN AT A GLANCE

    http://www.koran-at-a-glance.com/

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 2, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      Yeah, local news was showing there is a large number of arteeests on board, reaching out to their non-politically aligned, progressive ideology like-minded Cuban brethren. Some small business folks too, appears Cuba’s ready for a flood of hair and nail salons. New Orleans is ready to pimp itself out to Cuba as they city mothers believe the city will be THE major US to Cuba port, forgrtting about the ones on south Florida.
      City’s also hoping it will get a major slice of the Cuban cruise ship business – though it most likely to be tourists moving from Capitalist hell to the Socialist paradise.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      May 2, 2016 at 2:22 pm

      Sorry, s/b posted to thread below. Have no idea how it ended ip here, I’ve decided to become a Democrat for five minutes and absolve myself of any blame.

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  6. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    May 2, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Here’s one to make
    the socialists happy,
    come holiday time. 😉

    History in the making;
    been fifty years since
    I don’t know when. 😉

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:1240202/mmsi:310530000/imo:9210220/vessel:ADONIA

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  7. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    May 2, 2016 at 7:52 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  8. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 2, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Mornin’ kids!

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  9. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    May 2, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Morning all! I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable weekend and that your Monday is a good one!

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 2, 2016 at 9:23 am

    Good morning! Moving slowly this morning. In fact, I might be sleeping if the cat hadn’t decided that it was time for me to feed her. The dog helped.

    Today is the final day before the Indiana primary, and Trump has two scheduled events. The first is in Carmel, IN at 4:00 pm, and the other in South Bend, IN at 7:00 pm.

    Raining softly, and in the forties this morning. I can see that my lilac bush is getting ready to bloom. It was a gift from my daughter the first or second year I lived in this house; that would be 2001 or 2002. It came from Door County, Wisconsin, where her neighbor has a second home. It was a little stick of a thing when it was planted, and I put a small fence around it so the dog wouldn’t trample it. Today it is almost as tall as my garage and almost as wide, constantly threatening to overtake the garage door. I thought I planted it far enough from the garage to avoid this kind of problem, but the lilac has proven me wrong!

    The same could be said for my forsythia. It was a gift from a coworker, Patrick. It also was a stick of a thing; I left it outside my back door while waiting to plant it. It was in a plastic grocery bag, and got caught in a sleet storm before it finally was planted outside my dining room window. Now it is a constant battle to keep it in check. I’ll have to cut it back again some time this week.

    Have a very good day!

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 2, 2016 at 9:48 am

      Morning Stella, speaking of lilacs, my favorite one is blooming like a weed, very dark purple. It beautiful………

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      May 2, 2016 at 10:18 am

      Good morning Stella! I’m hoping to make it to beautiful Door County (Washington Island) this Summer 🙂

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      May 2, 2016 at 10:30 am

      Good morning Stella. The first home we ever bought someone gave me a lilac bush, it looked more dead than alive, but they assured me it would grow. I planted it and it did grow, didn’t bloom for like 5 years, but it grew. When we sold that house it was huge with beautiful blooms every spring.

      The house we have now already two huge established lilac bushes and folks always think I’m lying, but it’s the honest truth, they bloom more than once, good years they bloom three times. They bloomed this year in early April and lasted two weeks, but now they’re starting again and in a few weeks will be pretty again.
      I asked the elderly lady we bought the place from if they were a hybrid breed, because I had never saw them bloom more than once and she told me she didn’t think so, she got them from her mother when they built this house in the late 60’s and she just always assumed they were supposed to bloom more than once.

      I’m going to be gone most of the day, I have to go Tulsa today. I hate Tulsa, but it can’t be avoided.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        May 2, 2016 at 10:49 am

        There is a strain of lilac that bloom repeatedly. The old-fashioned ones don’t. In fact, if you prune a lilac, those branches won’t produce blooms for three years.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          May 2, 2016 at 9:51 pm

          That’s what threw me off about these, they are huge and beautiful, but then they also were planted in the 60’s. They almost always bloom at least twice, some years 3 times, except last year they only bloomed once. I think all the rain messed them up as well.

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  11. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    May 2, 2016 at 10:05 am

    I know it’s missing an “L” but I thought you might like it 🙂

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  13. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    May 2, 2016 at 11:01 am

    Hollywood’s October surprise – sounds interesting.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/hollywoods_october_surprise.html

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  15. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 2, 2016 at 11:21 am

    FBI’s pulled a list of some 3600 New Yorkers off of social media, people on a hit list compiled by the ISIS-connected United Cyber Caliphate were being contacted by the FBI in an attempt to calm their fears that a group that’s already killed untold thousands would target them by name. Even Chuck Schumer has taken the step to come out and tell the listees that they shouldn’t be worried, he stands between ISIS and his constituents, shirtless and stalwart. Get thst picture out of your mind, eh?
    We have had these lists popping up all over the US, lists compiled by hackers we’ve been told live in a cave and power their old Z-80 computers off of two electrodes stuck into a goat. They’ve managed to hack into servers and extract personal information of police, members of the military and regular civilians. They’ve used this to compile hit lists they’ve publically posted on extremmist sites, yet our elected and appointed official’s best response is: “Don’t worry, it’s all posturing”. Geez, maybe they’ll lend us some of their personal scurity, or the special security our tax dollars pay for to keep them safe from their political decisions. Then again they’ve told us that a certain number of innocent American vivilian deaths are acceptable in the pursuit of a diverse and inclusive society – unless their the bureaucrats’ deaths.

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    • MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
      May 2, 2016 at 4:07 pm

      “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.”
      —Isaiah 43:2—

      To keep in mind.

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    • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
      May 2, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      “…. lists compiled by hackers we’ve been told live in a cave and power their old Z-80 computers off of two electrodes stuck into a goat.”

      I don’t know which is more humorous, your description or reality. I laugh every time I see foreign agents access sensitive data as HB tech workers or off shore staffing companies and are paid by the very US companies they spy on to boot.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 2, 2016 at 9:40 pm

        Largely due to,our government being hampered by PC: political correctness and political crookedness. We werecwatching the Russians, in the early 90s, establishing college courses in hacking, they were training their first generation of strategic hackers. Rooskies read our War College papers, way back then, on the future of IT in the government, commerce, industry and military and saw, where we didn’t, the implications.
        Chinese too, they’re no slouches, and when my Federal civilian agency got the chance to have the military’s premier counter-hacking agency look over its IT system, the same one that protected the personnel and payroll records of some 80% of the Fed workforce they said ‘no thanks, our made-in-house fols are adaquate’.
        Out of over a hundred ‘programmers’ you could count the number of real-school trained programmers and not trained-in-house code-stringers on one hand. Then we have the civilian contractors hired regulsrly all over the government to come in and clean up the mess created bybfoljs who are barely, if that, competent. Remember Snowden?
        In much of the Federal goverment that goat-powered Z80 would be a welcome upgrade.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          May 2, 2016 at 10:25 pm

          Remember Snowden?

          Pffft! The situation that allowed “Snowden” should have never happened. Unfortunately, I see the same type of environment at almost every client I go to now and not one of them understands it. Security has become an impressionistic free flowing art form, interpreted by a malcontented employee that no one wants to work with and can’t be fired.

          I no longer point out issues the customer has not identified themselves unasked. Rather than thank you, they will show you the door out of fear they themselves will be held responsible for the issue they didn’t see.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 3, 2016 at 12:47 am

            Under Clinton the entire security system fell apart, fell victim to social engineers who valued PC and EEO over correctness and, well, security. Also a lot of spurious contractors who may have just paid hefty contributions for jobs didn’t help the matter much.
            I was a DIA-trained SSO in a SCIF from about ’97 till I retired in ’07 and it was a fight all the way. We had to fight to,prevent people from having access to classified info before their clearances were finalized. We had to argue with senior officers who wanted some guy with a record to have access to or courier classified data. The military personnel who were of A Protected Group who didn’t meet the basic requirements for a security clearance yet felt entitled to one. And the list goes on but you know…

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          May 2, 2016 at 10:32 pm

          I haven’t run into any of those Moscow mathematics majors for about 10 years or so now, but I know a few that have ended up working in the DC area. I always wonder just who the @#$@ does the background checks for them. Oh that’s right, it’s all been farmed out to a 3rd party. Never mind.

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          • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
            May 3, 2016 at 12:20 am

            Since Clinton gutted the DIS the clearances were farmed out to OPM so the Chinese are probably doing the bring-ups by now. Msth majors, si, but the Rooskies were training actual hackers, just like the ones here but the ones there ain’t living in their folk’s basement. I agibe a degreeskimin hacking…then again it beats a MA in the history twerking in modern dance.

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  16. Stella's avatar stella says:
    May 2, 2016 at 11:48 am

    I just saw an interview on a PBS show about startup companies with the woman who founded “Hot Girls Pearls”. The thing that jumped out at me was when she said that she tried to find a manufacturer here in the U.S. who she could work with and “nobody wanted to talk to me”, so she now manufactures in China. Her website:

    http://hotgirlspearls.com/

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  17. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    May 2, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    No special reason;
    just happen to have
    memory flash. 😉

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  18. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    May 2, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    That time of the year again. I had to drive into town and, in a friend’s field along the way, I saw two feral sows with some shoats. These weren’t the usual farm-looking pigs gone wild, these were the black, hump backed, mane-along-the-spine Russian wild boars that the hunt clubs brought in and have escaped on to farm land.
    We have a few really large hunting clubs that own/lease thousands of acres. They ilegally bring in wild European boars to make the hunt more exciting. Some of the pigs escape and breed with the feral pigs, the wild pigs taking over the genes if not the herds entirely. The feral boars are nastier than the domestic pigs gone punk, the boars will stand their ground and even attack while the pigs usually just run.
    Back to packing major heat out on the acreage, if it ain’t one thing it’s another.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      May 2, 2016 at 10:39 pm

      That’s why I keep my Uncles’ old 30-30 Winchester in the scabbard plus 100 rds on a belt on the side on the tractor when working in the fields, along the fence, or just hanging out by the pond……..

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        May 3, 2016 at 12:14 am

        Too many oarts yo clean, I prefer my AR with the new 80-grain bullets or with the .458 Socom upper on it. Gettin’ too old and slow to be levering shots, rather just spray and pray.

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