Friday, August 25, 2017

Tech News

Average reading time (excluding links; including video):  4m

ArsTechnia: High Court in  New Zealand rules government spied on Kim Dotcom:
...the entire government spying operation conducted against two of Kim Dotcom’s closest colleagues was not authorized under local law in 2011.

[T]he Government Communications Security Bureau conducted an "unlawful" and "unreasonable search" of Bram van der Kolk and Mathias Ortmann, two Megaupload executives. The GCSB is the New Zealand equivalent of the National Security Agency in the United States.



Then and now: The NOAA in May, 2009. NOAA News.gov:
Forecasters say there is a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven could become hurricanes, including one to three major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5).
And now;  CNS News:
Thursday, August 24, 2017 marks a record 142 straight months since the last major hurricane made landfall in the continental United States.
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GizmodoThe Ten Best Albums to own on Vinyl.  Not to bust anyone's bubble, but there are only nine...because we all know that "Dark Side of The Moon" is on that list.
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Electronic House: Your Roomba is spying on you. Tech News WorldSmart appliances and you. I wonder if Roomba, and wireless refrigerators and thermostats, can all communicate with each other? And who is gathering all that information?
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Geek: The burger with the cheese on the outside. I didn't want to copy and paste the pic of the burger - you HAVE TO see it at the link. And it probably will make you hungry.
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ArsTechnia: If anyone reading this lives near Monterey, California - or plans to attend The Monterey Car Week - - -   would you leave a comment sharing some of what you saw there? Thanks.
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The Tesla Big Rig. C|Net:
...the truck's electric drive system will give it a range of 200 to 300 miles. That range makes it suitable for regional freight delivery, short of the long-haul trucks that travel the interstates.

Tesla will also test its autonomous driving technology for the freight truck.

Tesla's Semi
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TechCrunch: Apple's next iPhone? Well, you may have to shell out $999 for it.
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Elon Musk's Space Suit.  ExtremeTech.
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Ethics in computer science, research, security, Internet.  At Freedom To Tinker, which I have found to be just a wonderful sight. If you like IT, are in IT, are interested in technology law, ethics, etc - FTT is a must-bookmark.
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"Keep your microbes away from my microbes." NewAtlas: 99% of the microbes in your body are unknown to science.
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Nextgov. Technology, War and AI. How AI will change wars. Please also see at The Guardian, Elon Musk; Killer robots have to be banned.

And Technocracy: Fully Weaponized Drones Are Here.
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Security Week: Are these U.S. Navy Ship collisions cyber attacks?
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For Safari users, BGR: Safari iOS 11 axes Google Amp links.
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Technology Review: The Myth of the Skills Gap.
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Tim Curry as Pennywise, from the television series "It."  From imagearcade.com

C|Net:  Clowns-only showing of Stephen King's theatrical film 'It' is worst idea ever.
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Do you remember this ad? BetaNews: Remembering Windows 95.

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Link fixes; several times: 8/25/2017

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Almost $1 Billion

Some incredibly fortunate person won Wednesday night's PowerBall. Fox 8; Cleveland:
A mistake by the Massachusetts State Lottery on Thursday injected a little extra drama into the massive $758.7 million Powerball drawing — the largest won by a single ticket in U.S. history — after lottery officials initially bungled their announcement and gave the wrong shop and location.

The lottery corrected the site where the single winning ticket was sold to Chicopee, Massachusetts. Overnight, they had announced the winning ticket was sold at a shop in Watertown, just outside Boston.
The life of the winner has changed dramatically overnight. I can't even imagine. May that person be Blessed and given the insight to do good things for those who are in need.

The randomness of numbers...

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Who are you? "... a gaggle of yelping fanatics that serve as their de facto collaborators." Fascists, Anarchists, Neos, Cryptos and alt-Lights - - oh My!

Average reading time (excluding links); casual read 8m 45s / speed read 6m

CITIZEN KAINES

"...... a gaggle of yelping fanatics that serve as their de facto collaborators.."

Who are they? The Antifas? The Anarchists? The Fascists? Some other -ists?

The Portland Antifa: If you believe your cause is just, why are you hiding?

First, let's look at two quotes from Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate, and U.S. Senator, Tim Kaine on the issue of Charlottesville.

Sunday, August 20, 2017, on CBS "Face The Nation":
SENATOR TIM KAINE (D): "We should call out violence of any kind. Peacefully protesting is a Constitutional right."
From March, 2017; Senator Kaine, speaking about his son, in the Jeff Bezos Daily Propaganda:
Linwood Kaine, son of Tim Kaine, the Democrat Vice Presidential candidate of 2016 (Hillary Clinton's running mate), was arrested on suspicion of second degree riot at a rally for President Trump.
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“We love that our three children have their own views and concerns about current political issues,” [said the Kaines]. “They fully understand the responsibility to express those concerns peacefully.”
From May, 2017, TwinCities.com:
Among those charged was Linwood “Woody” Kaine, a son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine[.]
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The 24-year-old Minneapolis man is accused of fleeing police on foot and concealing his identity in a public place, both misdemeanors, and obstructing legal process, a gross misdemeanor.
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[The group of Kaine and others] were wearing black clothing, with their faces and heads covered, and goggles — which a police official described as an indication of people who identify as anarchists.

Investigators used additional eyewitness interviews, social media postings and cellphone videos to identify suspects and connect their actions to criminal conduct, said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi.

“When people seek to prevent others who are peacefully assembled from making their voices heard, it threatens the very foundation of our democracy,” Choi said Friday.
Why do situations like the above occur? Because the Anarchists are intolerant of political views other than their own.

Why does Antifa hide their identity if they believe their cause is so righteous?

Kaine wasn't the only peaceful protester to cause bodily injury to defenseless Trump supporters, who had every right to assemble. From the same TwinCities.com link above:
Anton William Bueckert, spray[ed] several people “with a tear gas compound,” push[ing] through a crowd and punch[ing] people, a complaint said. Bueckert, 26, of Ontario, Canada, “fought and resisted” arrest, and a trooper’s thumb was broken during the struggle, the complaint said.
Linwood Kaine  was arrested with three others and charged with intent to violently disrupt a peaceful rally of Trump supporters in March, 2017. Twin Cities.com
... it took three officers, a “knee strike” and a chemical spray to subdue Kaine after he was identified as one of the counterprotesters [sic] who allegedly used fireworks or a smoke bomb to disrupt a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol, according to police spokesman Steve Linders. 
So much for the Left expressing their concerns peacefully, as Senator Kaine advises.


Liberals have been proudly calling themselves "Anarchists" for years; Self-Described Anarchists at that.

It was 2008, in St. Paul, MN during the Republican National Convention. It was a police raid on Liberal Anarchists. Star Tribune:
[Police]  raided at least six buildings across St. Paul and Minneapolis to stop an "anarchist" plan to disrupt this week's Republican National Convention.
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At least five suspected leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group, were taken to [jail].
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[Ramsey County Sheriff] displayed a number of the confiscated items: a gun, throwing knives, a bow and arrows, flammable liquids, paint, slingshots, rocks and buckets of urine.
PUKING ON THE STREETS OF ST. PAUL

Now, this "real piece of work", Dave Thune, is a story all in itself. And he would have genuinely enjoyed more violence, more destruction of property, more innocent people injured - perhaps killed - all in the capital city of Minnesota, where at the time he was a member of the city council, during the National Republican Convention in 2008.

Thune, on the record; The Seattle Times:
"I got 8,000 people who live downtown who don't want a bunch of Republican lobbyists puking on the streets."
But Thune is completely content with bags of urine and feces all over the streets. And blood and flesh. As long as he isn't around it.

Did you ever use the words, " I got" with a teacher in elementary school and recall how quickly the teacher corrected you? It's, "I have,"  not,  " I got."  But this speaks volumes for Thune, a miserable, selfish, nasty, confrontational Grade A Asshat.

In Divinity-Inspired poetic justice, Thune was cited numerous code violations on his own home! Highbeam.com:
Thune was cited for seven violations, including unkempt piles of construction materials, squirrel-damaged eaves, a missing balcony rail and a car with a missing license plate.

He said that most of the violations were the result of a roofing project completed last summer[.]
Yeah, right. A car missing a license plate is related to a roofing project HOW?

Typical, textbook Democrat response: Blame someone or something else. Do not take responsibility.

Thune's investment properties were in violation of building codes also.

Dave Thune, Ex St. Paul City Code Violator Council Member

BAGS OF URINE AND FECES FROM THE ANARCHISTS

Across town, in Minneapolis, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign’s March for Our Lives - aka The Liberal Anarchists - were on their way to Mears Park planning on disrupting a PEACEFUL group of protesters using bricks, urine and feces.

The LIBERAL RNC Welcoming Committee describes itself as, "anarchists."

From Wired, circa the 2008 Republican Convention:
[The] RNC protesters holding a black-and-red sign with the words "Against Capitalism," on it [were held back by a police line]  One of the protesters provokes the black-clad, helmeted cops by shouting "Sieg Heil!"
"Sieg Heil!"   Who are the neo-Nazis? Refresh my memory.

Peaceful Anarchist Jason Sparks did jail time.

Peaceful Anarchist Matthew DePalma did jail time.

Peaceful Anarchist David Guy McKay was planning to throw molotov cocktails and firebombs at police vehicles parked near the apartment [of the above mentioned police raid].

Peaceful Anarchist Bradley Neal Crowder did jail time.

And there were others.  L.A. Times:
Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael [sic] Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Max Spector, face up to 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge [for their violent protests].
We have an organization of Democrat self-described Anarchists whose intention is to incite violence against another group of people who have assembled peacefully.

Who are the bullies?

THE DEMS ARE OKAY WITH THE KKK

Democrats have selective memory when it comes to their [deceased] U.S. Senator Robert Byrd being a KKK Grand Pooba. Or whatever-the-hell-title his Klan bestowed upon him.

Sometimes "time" spent waiting can be good. In the case of me writing, rewriting and editing this piece - well, it took a few days. So I was very happy to see a story from The Nation, published Tuesday, the 22nd, with a U.S. Democrat Congressman condemning the KKK: 
When Congressman Steve Cohen heard Donald Trump’s awful response to Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, he knew he had to act.

“Instead of unequivocally condemning hateful actions by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Klansmen following a national tragedy,” said the Tennessee Democrat, “the President said ‘there were very fine people on both sides.’ There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen.”
Oh, so true Congressan Cohen, why, we all remember how Democrats denounced Robert Byrd. All that noise and fuss over condemning Byrd? You don't remember? Either do I, because it never happened.

I guess the Dems made an exception for Byrd. Or would that fall under the description of hypocrisy instead of exception?



THAT GAGGLE OF YELPING FANATICS

That "...gaggle of yelping fanatics that serve as their de facto collaborators...";   they are the words of writer Tom McKay at Gizmodo, writing about the Free Speech Rally in Boston last Saturday:
...this [Boston] particular rally were not quite the horde of “alt-right” Klansmen, Nazis, white supremacists and neo-Confederates that wrecked Charlottesville.
Instead, it was a bevy of crypto-fascist “alt light”[.]
The Libs are desperately dragging out labels and terms hoping anything will stick.

We cannot overlook a few other notables who are Liberal "self-described anarchists":

There is (probably NSFW) Emily Lance, Mad World News:
Emily Lance is another Liberal "self-described anarchist." She's "famous" for urinating on an American flag while standing up.
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[Lance had a friend film her as she urinated on an American flag submerged in her toilet with the help of a GoGirl, a device which allows women to urinate standing up.]

The link to this story above has the uncensored images.

Emily is quite the agent provocateur, isn't she? Could she be a victim; suffering from a case of lifelong, unrelenting and severe penis envy?

Super-Duber-Uber-Goober Liberal, and all-around America hater, Noam Chomsky describes himself as "an anarchist."

The Anarchists justify their actions, saying no one else is willing to stick up for the Liberal Agenda. Really? This justifies the violence in the mind of the Antifas.

Check out an absurdly long and meandering manifesto, titled "It's Going Down," from IDG.org. It's dated July 7, 2017 and it appears on the IDG home page titled "Anarchist Movement."
It is time for liberals and progressives to lose their illusions about the anarchist movement and our tactics, because, quite frankly, you have no one else willing to fight for you.
What type of tactics is the writer suggesting that are lost? That the Liberal self-described Anarchists have moved from using bags of urine and feces to bringing baseball bats and homemade flame-throwers to counter-protest a peaceful gathering?

And this gem, a tweet from the IDG link above:
Anarchists have built a free healthcare [sic] clinic in #Athens with doctors and dentists from @UR_Ninja https://t.co/IVz4q4EJ1a

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) July 5, 2017
How much confidence would you have receiving medical care from a clinic built by Anarchists? Just curious.

YOU ARE ALMOST DONE READING THIS POST!

Liberal Anarchist = Good.

Conservative or any non-Liberal Fascist = Bad.

And look for more frequent use of the terms "crypto-fascist" and "alt-light".

Clearly, this group of Deranged-Unhinged-Liberal-Alt-Left-Neo-Crypto-Nazi-Marxist-Maoist-Fascist-Anarchists will be in the news at every event where Trump supporters gather peacefully.

And for the political party that preaches tolerance, and being non-judgmental - especially when it comes to physical appearance - well, it cannot be said that Liberals are tolerant or non-judgmental and they certainly will analyze and conclude - wrongly - on the basis of physical appearance.

A Colorado man was stabbed by a Liberal Anarchist for no reason other than his haircutThe N.Y. Post:
Joshua Witt, 26, [believes his long-on-top, buzzed-on-the-sides haircut got him mistaken for [a neo Nazi]  — and nearly stabbed to death by a confused anti-fascist.
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“All I hear is, ‘Are you one of them neo-Nazis?’ as this dude is swinging a knife up over my car door at me,” he said.

“I threw my hands up and once the knife kind of hit, I dived back into my car and shut the door and watched him run off west, behind my car.

“The dude was actually aiming for my head,” he said.
Millions of men have been sporting the buzzed sides and slightly longer hair-on-top for years. Suddenly the Liberal Anarchists are attacking these people based on their look and their haircut?

"Are you one of them neo-Nazis?" Spoken just a Liberal Yokel Anarchist whose sister is also his wife. (Did I just write that ?)

And Liberals, for decades, have been telling everyone; "please don't judge us on our appearance. Judge us by what's in our hearts." What is that, Anarchists, what is in your hearts? Hatred, incivility, intolerance, violence, bodily harm, throwing bags of feces or urine? Clearly, these people. Are. Not. Adults.

I know who the people are who are the gaggle of yelping fanatics, and so do you.

Do they recognize themselves?
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Grammar correction  8/24/2017

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

World News Links

Image credit: picture-alliance/dpa/Polizei Osnabruk
From Deutsche Welle: "Make Partying Great Again." German Police drug raid nets thousands of Ecstasy pills...in the shape of Donald Trumps' head.
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Middle East Eye: Yemenis flock to view public executions.
...Muhammad al-Maghribi, a man in his 40s, was led from a prison van by armed police, hands tied behind his back, and moved to a clearing in Sanaa's Tahrir square.

[He] was led to a carpet, held face down, and shot several times in the back with an automatic rifle. His public execution was the first in what the Houthi movement says is a new crackdown on hardened criminals.
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Turkish security kill three terrorists planning a vehicle bomb attack.  Turkey World Bulletin:
Security forces also seized weapons and ammunition and destroyed two shelters and 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of ammonium nitrate, an ingredient in bomb making.
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Der Spiegel Op/Ed: The Unforgivable Disgrace of President Trump.
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Sky News: The U.S. "Fire and Fury" plane. (Can't miss video).

"Fire and Fury."

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Cannabis News:
 * In the U.S.; From The Republic: Denver eyes opening legal marijuana clubs.
 * In the U.K.; From Sky News: Liberal Dems seek "common sense" to "regulate and control" marijuana.
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News Asia: Dumped dye in Mumbai turning dogs blue.

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RTT News: Survey says...Parents are a bad role model when it comes to texting while driving.
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Gaming; from Engadget: State of Decay 2; who will be Zombie food?

State of Decay 2 screenshot.
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The N.Y. Post: WILD Cape Cod party leads to two Kennedys' arrested.(Only two???)

Tech News

Average reading time (excluding links): 2m 



Another instance of technology out-pacing law. Biometrics Law Suit Courthouse News Service:
[A] federal lawsuit claims that Alvarado Manufacturing’s “intelligent admission control” turnstile system violates Illinois law by collecting fingerprints and other biometric identifiers without consent.
The 13-page class action suit is HERE, and worth the time if you like the subject matter. And a 13-page suit is not a long read.
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Those Billionaires like having their beaches private.  Courthouse News Service:
...a picturesque stretch of the California coastline remains closed with No Trespassing signs clearly posted – despite a court order to open the gate so people can access the nearby beach.
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I've taken a few light jabs at Elon Musk on this blog (but I admire the guy), but I agree with him; there needs to be an outright, and immediate, ban on killer robots. The Guardian:
 “Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. "
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PC World: Build your own Jurassic World. Or...something.
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BGR: ...coming down the homestretch it's Galaxy but here comes Samsung on the outside...
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No, Barclays isn't tracking how often employees are at their desk or workspace. Nextgov:
Studying how workers use their physical space is not a bad way to save money. But if the finance industry is really interested in reducing unnecessary costs, they might also figure out how to stop activities that led to $321 billion in fines.
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TechCrunchSnapChat will host a CNN news program.
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Beta News:  Here's a memory moment that will jog you. It was year 2000 and version 4.75 of......Netscape was released!
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MS Did WHAT...?!? MS' cloud app security automatically logs off suspicious users.  (I'm sure MS will release a patch to fix this.)
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But is this tech news? Sure. Razorology? That's it - Razorology. Red Orbit: Results from an online survey saying 1/4th of all Americans...have injured themselves when...trimming body hair.   Down there...

Monday, August 21, 2017

Rest in peace, Jerry Lewis.

Jerry Lewis has died at the age of 91.

March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017

The typewriter scene from "Who's Minding The Store?" 


First Lady Melania Trump accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama. Lest we forget The King of Plagiarism, Joe Biden.

Average reading time (excluding links): 3m 30s

Oh - Hypocrisy...Thy name is Liberal.

First Lady Melania Trump is accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama, again?!? MSN.com:
First Lady Melania Trump came under criticism[.]

Soon after the violence at the rally in Charlotesville, Virginia, Melania tweeted August 12, "our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence." #Charlottesville.
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[No sooner had her tweet been published were accusations that she had copied a comment from first lady Michelle Obama last year.]
Ah, The Left and Their Selective Memory. How soon they pretend to forget.


In 2008, Barack Obama plagiarized from a speech by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. CBS News:
Obama's speech Saturday sounded similar to a speech given by Patrick in his 2006 campaign for governor, according to the video.
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[Obama used many of the same phrases as used by Patrick].
And I would be egregiously remiss if I did not mention the King of plagiarism, Joe Biden. From Slate (hardly a right-wing publication):
Biden's misdeeds encompassed numerous self-aggrandizing thefts, misstatements, and exaggerations that seemed to point to a serious character defect.
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[Biden adapted, for his own speech, a previous speech given by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.] (Heh- "adapted." Sounds better than "stolen" or "plagiarized". - DD)
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Over the next days, it emerged that Biden had lifted significant portions of speeches from Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. From Kennedy, he took four long sentences in one case and two memorable sentences in another.
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If that wasn't bad enough, Biden admitted the next day that while in law school he had received an F for a course because he had plagiarized five pages from a published article in a term paper that he submitted.
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And Biden conceded that he had exaggerated in another matter by stating in a speech some years earlier that he had joined sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie theaters, and was thus actively involved in the civil rights movement.
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Newsweek soon reported on a C-SPAN videotape from the previous April that showed Biden berating a heckler at a campaign stop. While lashing out at the audience member, Biden defended his academic credentials by inflating them, in a fashion that was notably unbecoming and petty for a presidential candidate.

"I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect," Biden sniped at the voter. "I went to law school on a full academic scholarship." That claim was false, as was another claim, made in the same rant, that he graduated in the top half of his law-school class. Biden wrongly stated, too, that he had earned three undergraduate degrees, when in fact he had earned one[.]

"I graduated summa cum laude with 17 and 11 Phd's in Lying."

I also must mention Biden's five military deferments, for asthma. Five is also the number of deferments of Dick Cheney.

It's a bit puzzling that someone with asthma played college football. Because doesn't dirt and dust and sand - and those sometime damp, wet and humid football Friday Night Lights' games - act as an irritant to asthma?

But oh, wait - Joe was lying about his college football career too.

I wonder if THIS SONG  was written with Biden in mind?

Well, nobody messes with Joe. Nobody.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

WTF is wrong with people? Moroccan boys rape donkey; get rabies. No, this is not fiction.

I can't believe I run across a story that is similar to this one, in the same day. Or even a week.

(sigh) From The Middle East Monitor:
At least 15 [Moroccan] boys, aged seven to 15, have contracted rabies after gang-raping a donkey[.]
Same story, different source.  The Times, Sri Lanka:
The family members of the youngsters are very disappointed and shocked.
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Local authorities are now trying to find out who else had approached the donkey to "admire" it to limit the further possibility of the disease spreading.
I don't think that the word "admire" is the most accurate term to use.

Same story, another source;  stating what others have not: Defence Forum India:
15 Muslim teens treated for rabies after raping donkey.
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8/18/2017: Fixed bad link

Tech News

Average reading time, excluding links: 1m 30s

BBC: Islamic State recruiting European teens; training them for terrorism.
Recruiting child soldiers is a war crime. But few have refined the process so efficiently as the Islamic State group.
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ArsTechnia: Google bans GAB App citing "violating Google's ban on hate speech."
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C|Net: Electronic Frontier Foundation criticizes tech companies for banning neo-Nazi website.
"...any tactic used now to silence neo-Nazis will soon be used against others, including people whose opinions we agree with."
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WiredDriverless truck designed to crash.

Driverless "crash truck."
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Beta News: BitCoin surpasses $4,500.
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BGR: Worldwide map for real-time lightning strikes.
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ZD NetYour car's safety features can be hacked and disabled.
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Shortlist: Retro: Popular website design, original vs current look.
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GizmodoApple function prevents cops from accessing your phone.
Apple has added a hidden trick that could help keep cops out.
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...allows users to press the home button five times to initiate an emergency SOS call. And as a part of the process, iOS 11 also disables Touch ID.
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In 2014, a judge in Virginia Circuit Court ruled that police can force users to unlock a phone using their fingerprint. However, a passcode or password is a different story, as that would fall under the Fifth Amendment, which gives people the right to avoid self-incrimination.
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TechnocracyMissouri citizens block massive wind power project.
 
Staggering size of turbine blade.
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Freedom To Tinker: When cookies meet the blockchain.
... if you shop online and pay with Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, how much privacy do you have? In a new paper, we show just how little.
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MIT Technology Review: Cancer atlas developed to help patient survival.
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IFL Science: How watching the eclipse without proper eyeware will ruin your sight.
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PM Live: Google; moving into the healthcare industry?
[W]hen asked whether [Google] could become a big healthcare company that conducts its own large-scale trials, [Alphabet's Eric Schmidt] answers “maybe in the future”.

Friday, August 18, 2017

Mark Hook

I can't bring myself to provide a description from the story.

READ IT HERE.

Mark Hook

Steve Bannon...He Go Now

Steve Bannon...

... He Go Now.

Finland Police shoot knife-weilding man who stabbed several people. Witnesses say he shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before stabbing.

No update, had to delete broken link and add new link (CNN) of same story.

From CNN: 
At least two people were killed and six others hospitalized Friday in a stabbing attack at two markets in the Finnish city of Turku, police said.

Officers took a suspect into custody after shooting him in the leg after the attack, police said, and they were searching for other possible perpetrators. Police in Finland have shot a man who reportedly stabbed a number of people in the south-western city of Turku.
From Reuters :
Police said they arrested one person after a shootout and had launched a manhunt for other possible attackers. 
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08/18/2017: Changed broken link and story; (link #1) 

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Barcelona; five suspects shot and killed by police; Cambrils terrorists killed

Several shot by police. Sky News:
Police confirm several attackers have been killed in a shoot-out as raids are carried out following the Barcelona attack.
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19:09 - According to La Vanguardia, five suspects were shot dead in Cambrils in an operation that began about nine hours after the attack in Barcelona city centre.
19:01 - Police in Catalonia have confirmed they have killed the perpetrators of a "terrorist attack" in Cambrils.
19:00 - Spanish media: Several attacker [sic] have been killed in a shoot-out south of Barcelona after police announced an operation in Cambrils.
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Sky News is now reporting the Cambrils incident may have been a second, attempted terrorist attack. 
Four suspected terrorists have been killed in a shoot-out with police in a second possible terror attack in Spain.

Police warned agents had been deployed to the coastal town of Cambrils, while Catalan authorities urged local residents in a Twitter post to "stay home" and "stay safe".

Obama's Barcelona Tweet

Because he did SO MUCH in EIGHT YEARS fighting Islamic Terrorism.

Barack Obama: All talk, no action. See PUSSY. (SFW)

Man in background from #Barcelona Twitter

Watch the man who walks across the screen; notice his shirt. 

From Twitter, #Barcelona.

Barcelona Terror Attack - breaking news 10:41AM MST

The Guardian: Barcelona van driver still on the run.

Continuing Barcelona updates and coverage located at Jihad Watch.

4:15PM MST - Fox News on YouTube and The Independent reporting van driver NOT IN CUSTODY.

Reddit Barcelona "False Flag" accusations with no supporting evidence.

A handout photo made available by Spanish National Police shows Maghrebi Driss Oukabir


3:49 PM MST - UDPATE: Suspect or Not? Fox News:
The first suspect named by police in connection to the Barcelona terror attack was identified as Driss Oukabir, a Moroccan citizen.

However, later in the day, Spanish media agency La Vanguardia reported a man with that name approached police to say he was not the suspect. Police so far have not clarified whether they released the right name.

Updates: #Barcelona @Twitter

3:42 PM MST - UPDATE:  Fox News' Shepard Smith is reporting that the driver of the van is NOT in custody. This, from Fox News television coverage at YouTube. 


3:30 PM MST - UPDATE: The Telegraph is reporting Police say earlier house explosion is connected to van attack. 

Other news sources have not confirmed the above.
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The van believed to have been used in the attack. - The Telegraph

3:22 PM MST - UPDATE: Death toll at 13.  The Telegraph:
"We can confirm there are 13 dead and more than 50 injured," regional interior minister Joaquim Forn said in a tweet.

Catalan police said they had arrested one suspect, and denied earlier reports that the perpetrator was holed up in a bar near the scene.
The Sidney Morning Herald: People started running, screaming.

Live coverage here. 

UPDATE: Hostages said to be taken. The Sun:
HOSTAGE TERROR Barcelona attack – Two ‘gunmen’ storm Turkish restaurant and takes hostages after Las Ramblas terror van rampage leaves ’13 dead’ and 20 injured.
MoreSpain News 12 lists the timeline of events.
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Barcelona, Spain terrorist attack. Sky News:
Police say a "massive crash" in Barcelona city centre in which several people are feared to have been killed is a terrorist attack.

A white van mounted the pavement of Las Ramblas, the main tourist area in the city, and struck several people, police said.
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Several newspapers have reported two people have died and at least 20 have been wounded, and officials have confirmed there are dead.
More coverage at:

The Independent.  

The Telegraph. 

The Daily Star. 

Steve Bannon, Should he stay or should he go now?

Average reading time (excluding links and video):  1m 30s

An almost unlimited number of stories on Steve Bannon.

The most recent story; Bannon's venting in a phone call that he made to the American Prospect. BoingBoing:
Bannon described his efforts [to] "neutralize his rivals at the Departments of Defense, State, and Treasury" and said that (in Bannon's words), "They’re wetting themselves."

Bannon also contradicted Trump on North Korea: "There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it."
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Or maybe, Roosevelt didn't say that. (I'm not sure who, or what group, decided that MetaBunk is the final authority on anything. I tend to always be skeptical regarding sites like MetaBunk or Snopes).

Either way, it isn't all that hard to believe that the Roosevelt "quote" is likely to be more accurate than not in the political arena.

You can throw a dart at any search engine and find news stories and Op/Ed pieces on Bannon, both pro and con.

I don't know if the Trump Admin is in chaos and disarray or not. If it isn't, and a carefully cultivated plan is to make it appear the Trump Admin is in chaos, then that plan certainly seems to be a successful perception by the public and - of course - the MSM.

I don't know if President Donald Trump selected Bannon without forethought of how controversial Bannon is, and would be, especially in how The Left views Bannon.

So was Bannon's phone call actually spontaneous and off the cuff, or was it a carefully planned strategy?

I haven't decided if Bannon should stay or if he should go.

What are your thoughts?


No matter how the Bannon issue concludes, I thank God every single day that our president is NOT Hillary Clinton.
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8/18/2017: Fixed embedded video code (several times).

Brain Break Games

Let's take a moment and step back from politics, current events, global climate warming change, and exercise our brains in a different manner.

A search on Optical Illusions, (something I've always enjoyed) turns up a lot of different sites. There's tons of them at which to play around.

I found some interesting ones at Illusions.org. Especially the one below:

Look at the chart below above and say the COLOR
 of the word, not the word itself.

Why is it so difficult?  Because the right half of your brain
is trying to say the color, while the left side of your brain
is trying to say the word.

I started out "okay" because I knew what I was supposed to do. But I stumbled on the third row on the Blue colored word Yellow. And I had to concentrate on the rest and definitely felt that "left side/right side" conflict of the involuntary reflex of wanting to say the word, not the color.

And THIS ONE explains why I am not a good proofreader of my own material.

And THIS ONE is fantastic. 
 
Put the world on "hold" for a few moments, and have some fun with optical illusions.
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Grammar error fixed: 8/16/2017

Now is the time to start worrying over Y3K !

I love it when prophecy fails to materialize. The inability of Man attempting to accurately predict future events is folly.

Matthew; 24-36:
The Day and Hour Unknown
36)  “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
So I was not surprised when an earth axis shift did NOT occur on August 15, 2017:
This telepathic message was received on August 15, 2017 at 3:09 am Mountain Time at the Star Lodge healing Center in Lake George, Colorado USA[.]
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[The message was] sent from RaTesh, the Pleiadian [sic] Cosmonaut[.]
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[The] planetary Axis Shift of Earth, will cause your planet’s oceans to “slosh” greatly – ON A MUCH BIGGER SCALE than this recent “minor”, approximately 13 degree Axis Shift – which just occurred a few days ago, of your Earth time.
Yeah, RaTesh...not a good batting average. (Is Al Gore, Jr. impersonating RaTesh?)

But we really should start worrying about Y3K right now. Shouldn't we?

U.S. Blackhawk down near Hawaii

Pray people...pray.

From The Telegraph:
Officials at Wheeler Army Airfield, near Honolulu, reported losing communications with the crew of a UH-60 Black Hawk at around 10pm local time on Tuesday (9am BST).

Is this the New Glock?

Is this the new Glock 17M : The Firearm Blog:
... someone finally got their new Glock 17M duty gun in from Glock! I am inclined to believe that it is a genuine photo because our source is an officer with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department, one of the first agencies to receive the new guns. The officer that this 17M belongs to is one of the first to get the new Glock[.]
 Hit the link for the details.

Additional info, Soldier Systems.

Check out more leaked 17M photos HERE,  at Guns.com. Definitely worth the time.


Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Man accidentally shoots himself in heart with Nail Gun

Image:Scripps Media

Man accidentally shooting himself in the heart with a nail gun drives himself to the hospital.  WCPO.com:
... [Doug Bergeson] was working on framing in a fireplace at his house near Peshtigo in northeast Wisconsin when his nail gun accidentally fired, sending a nail ricocheting off some wood and into his chest.
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As he tugged at his sweatshirt, Bergeson, 52, said he realized only about 1 inch of the 3 1/2-inch nail was sticking out of his chest.

"I could see the nail moving with my heartbeat. It was kind of twitching with every heartbeat," Bergeson said.
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Note to Scripps Media advisory: "Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."

I have every right under Fair Use Section 107 U.S. Copyright Code to reproduce your material. If you don't like it, sue me. I can use the publicity.

Tech News

Average reading time, excluding linked material:  45s


Human DNA embedded with malware. Beta News:
Security researchers have managed to infect a computer with malware embedded in a strand of human DNA.
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Once the malware-infected synthetic DNA strand was sequenced, the machine got infeced [sic] and essentially granted unlimited access of the system to the hacker.
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C|Net.  A must read for Daryl fans. An interview with Norman Reedus, of "The Walking Dead."
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Wired: Would you be creeped-out by an insect-like six-legged, crawling robot?
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Do you use a password manager? Is it secure? From Security Week:
A password recovery firm has claimed that the overall security of password managers is debatable. "Are password managers more secure than keeping a list of passwords in a single Excel spreadsheet?" it asks. "Not necessarily," it concludes.
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BackReaction: It's not the universe that makes you look fat.
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ArsTechnia: Here's a Tab trick for you Chrome users.
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BGR: How Cox upped their monthly fee $50 and no one noticed:
Make no mistake about it: Cox has gone sideways to end up at a point where, to get the same plan that you enjoyed a year ago, you have to pay $50 more.
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Security Week: Public clouds more secure than private and hybrids.
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Computer World: MicroSoft is having a hard time figuring out how to support Windows 10. (Doesn't that sound exactly like a headline from "The Onion"?)
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Information Week: The Future of Data and Analytics.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Toppled Confederate soldier, tells Workers World Party, Durham Branch, "you didn't hurt me at all."

Average reading time, including video: 2m 15s

A group of the Workers World Party Durham Branch tied a rope around a metal statue of a Confederate Soldier and pulled it to the ground. Then they kicked at the statue. They sure showed him, huh? WXYZ.com:
The statue has stood outside the courthouse since 1924.

According to a Facebook event page, the protest was organized by the Workers World Party Durham Branch. The protest was organized to demand the removal of all Confederate symbols.
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"Charlottesville and racist monuments across the country are the result of centuries of white supremacy,” Alissa Ellis, a member of Workers World Party Durham branch, told the News Observer. "But we cannot ignore the fact that the current Trump administration has emboldened more Nazis, KKK, and white supremacists to target, brutalize, and kill our communities"[.]
I'm surprised - no, SHOCKED! - that Alissa doesn't have a hyphenated-last-name. Usually-especially-women-who-are-in-groups-like-this-have-hyphenated-last-names. Alissa is an iconoclast.

Here's their Facebook page, if you were considering "liking" them.

And good for Alissa for invoking Godwin's law. Nazis, the KKK, Hitler, etc can never be mentioned enough when pointless organizations like the WWP have no point.
 
Workers World Party Durham Beach displaying their intelligence.

Memo to the WWP: You did not hurt the soldier.

For the sake of argument, let's pretend this disrespect of property is removed from any political nuances. These people are out of their minds. They are the mob that is the mob they so abhor.

They are suffering severe Cognitive Dissonance.

Let's just get a basic understanding and definition of the WWP from Wikipedia.

The Wiki entry for the Workers World Party describes them as:
...a communist party in the United States, founded in 1959[.]
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WWP describes itself as a party that has, since its founding, "supported the struggles of all oppressed peoples".
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The WWP has maintained a position of support for the government of North Korea.
They are a Communist party, supporting the struggles of oppressed people...and they support the government of North Korea ruled by Kimmy Jong Un, an oppressive and ruthless tyrant?

Here they are below, proudly displaying their evolved prefrontal cortex:


My guess? They all have severe amygdala damage and trama.

Monday, August 14, 2017

World News Links

Average Reading Time (allowing for video but not how much time you spend at the linked stories): 4m 45s 

The Telegraph - Over 300 dead in Sierra Leone mudslide in city of Freetown:
An estimated 2,000 people have also been made homeless[.]
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Speaking at the scene, Sierra Leone's Vice President, Victor Foh, said: "It is likely that hundreds are lying dead underneath the rubble."
Mudslide video. Pray for these people:

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Sky News: "A smooth and orderly Brexit."
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Another bank, another crisis - Azerbaijan. Eurasianet:
...loan sharks are an increasingly popular way for Azerbaijanis to get money, amid a banking crisis that has rocked the country’s legitimate financial sector.Azerbaijan.
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...the government sharply devalued the local currency which ultimately led to the closure of 13 banks[.]
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N.Y. Daily News: Info Wars creator and host Alex Jones blames the violence in Charlottesville, Va. on "Jewish Actors."
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Canoe.com: Chewbacca charged with attacking ski resort employee.
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Mutant Ant













Red Orbit: Mutant Ants!
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Goldfish are alcoholics? Courthouse News Service
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Technocracy: The United Nations new, supercharged, Urban Agenda. ("Entering New World Order, please form a single line.").
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New Atlas: You've probably heard of Tiny Houses? Well, welcome to the Micro-Cabin. And they seem pretty darn neat!
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Corriere Della Sera: Singer Morrissey claims "terrorized by Rome policeman."

Link fix 8/14/2017