Early Morning Thread 4/4/15 Minority Report edition.[krakatoa]

The EMT knows what you are thinking, and has reported you to our homosexual overlords.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:00 AM

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1 "Our homosexual overlords"

Obama?

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 04, 2015 06:04 AM (vd4oB)

2 G'morning everyone.

Posted by: JTB at April 04, 2015 06:15 AM (FvdPb)

3 So it's left over pizza for breakfast?

I can deal with that. Or at least outline a framework.

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 06:16 AM (olGfj)

4 To bounce start the morning - MMD Super Sonico

https://youtu.be/frItNH405MQ

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2015 06:18 AM (+EPmu)

5 Going outside to check on the eclipse, with a stop in the kitchen to get some coffee started.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2015 06:18 AM (go6ud)

6 Morning. Anyone watching the moon?

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 06:20 AM (Vh+W5)

7 Ace cited on Instapundit:

ACE: Kill Your TV and Save Your Life. Well, mine currently doesn't work, so there.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2015 06:20 AM (WIUGG)

8 Might have a hint of a shadow, here in Western Ohio. Clear view, but I don't think we're getting much of a show.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 06:22 AM (Vh+W5)

9 Long rant I just posted in Ace's 'Kill Your television' thread. Sorry for scroll finger exercise if you find it boring...

Yes, cut the cable. When you're connected to the 'retention specialist' please mention MSNBC as one of the reasons. Mention no 'a la carte' pricing as another. They've given the consumer and conservatives the finger for too long. Keep your internet and wi-fi though.

You're now saving around $800 bucks a year. Some of that money went to MSNBC. Feel better already?

Now in my opinion an Amazon Prime account at $99 a year and a $39 Amazon Fire Stick is the best combo for watching online content. Amazon is the best of capitalism right now. They are constantly improving the product while keeping the price constant. They probably have thousands of LIFETIMES of content available. Want to watch history? A LIFETIME of content available. Science? A LIFETIME of content available. Movies? Many LIFETIMES of content available. First run movies? They are there for a reasonable fee. Remember you're still saving $600 plus dollars per year. Splurge a little.

Everything works. It's truly amazing technology. Commercial free. Pause if you want. Rewind. Fast forward. Exit and come back and it returns to where you left off.

Start with this setup. More online content is on the way. Add a subscription to Netfix for another $100 a year. It works with the Fire Stick. Same with HuluPlus. Some satellite providers are preparing to enter the game. There are probably hundreds of Apps for the Fire Stick now, with more on the way. Stream free music. It will 'learn' what you like and create playlists for you to choose from.

Sure, reducing the amount of time in front of the television is good. I also believe in optimizing the quality of ones television experience. Learn something in the process; learn the history of Hawaii while taking a HD helicopter tour of the islands as I did recently. Breathtaking experiences are there at your fingertips.

But for the love of G-d, cut the cable and stop feeding the MSM and MSNBC.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 06:23 AM (xQX/f)

10 Interesting thread yesterday about getting rid of TV. Mrs. JTB and I had a long discussion about it and there will be more this weekend. I suspect sometime this year we'll make the decision to kill it.

Yeah, definitely have to get the percolator going.

Posted by: JTB at April 04, 2015 06:23 AM (FvdPb)

11 Or read the short story Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven and get really nervous.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 04, 2015 06:23 AM (+EPmu)

12 Spending the weekend enjoying all the things I gave up for Lent. Guess I get Easter gruel tomorrow instead of ham.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 06:24 AM (rOxvw)

13 Saw a bit of the eclipse. Cold out there, though...brr.

Posted by: Lizabth at April 04, 2015 06:25 AM (Qeh6Q)

14 Good Morning,
it's raining here in Boston area.I know we are supposed to have very strong wind alert fom 10 am to sometime tonight.

I've been & still have stomach bug & don't care enough to look it up.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:27 AM (sj3Ax)

15 Nothing but clouds this morning. Maybe that silly boy from Richmond loses its' job today to make up for it.

Posted by: jsg at April 04, 2015 06:29 AM (MaKT7)

16 "Blood Moon." Totally metal!

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 06:31 AM (wdXFj)

17 Currently about 1/3 of the moon is in a hazy shadow. Neat, but the view would be much more exciting from the moon.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 06:33 AM (Vh+W5)

18 I like a few shows & watch but most are on Showtime or AMC & Shameless (Showtime) season finale is to Sunday & last 7'of Mad Men starts tomorrow.
There is nothing else I watch on weekends.

I have Fox & Friends on but I'm not paying attention & should turn off.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:33 AM (sj3Ax)

19 Moon about 1/3 covered, coffee ready. going back outside.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2015 06:33 AM (go6ud)

20 Would like to have seen the blood moon but total cloud cover here. Bummer! I take it personally.

Posted by: JTB at April 04, 2015 06:37 AM (FvdPb)

21 Too bleeping cold to go outside.

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 06:40 AM (z9VMD)

22 Wow, Sat morn thread at 6 am? I sat here and went to sleep.

Good Morning Morons. Today is Saturday, April 04, 2015. On this day in 1975 Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They moved the company to Washington State in 1979.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:41 AM (wlDny)

23 Obama to bring in another round of Hispanics from Central America in a program that classifies them as refugees and makes them eligible for citizenship bypassing the normal immigration process which again, is illegal. By the time they reach 18 (if not already there) they will be eligible to vote, which is the whole point of this crap. But anything to fight this is "off the table". (Note link at Fox does not work)

http://bit.ly/1asm5B8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:41 AM (wlDny)

24 Corrupt Democrat Gov of OR was hugely influenced by his then fianc�e. He had previously said she had little or no role and was therefore exempt from OR ethics laws.

http://fxn.ws/1EU7tHD

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:41 AM (wlDny)

25 In his Good Friday address the Pope warns the world to not be like Pontius Pilot and ignore the persecution of Christians.

http://fxn.ws/1xLDYFa

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:42 AM (wlDny)

26 Sarah Brady, the wife of former White House Press Secretary James Brady and tireless advocate for gun control, has died at the age of 73, her family announced in a statement Friday.

http://fxn.ws/1NIggeW

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:42 AM (wlDny)

27 A church in Jackson, MS seeing that they did not have enough room for all the Easter services attendance rented the medical conference center at the University of MS. At the last minute the university cancelled citing fear of litigation or some shit. The said the atmosphere was not "conducive" to a church service. The church had a signed contract, they should sue.

http://fxn.ws/1GafZ5r

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:42 AM (wlDny)

28 The Obamanites have a regulatory group for everything. Here the one that overseas off the road vehicles wants to make a new regulation that makes them unsafe to use "off the road".

http://fxn.ws/1J39JLd

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:43 AM (wlDny)

29 The CA man who operated the "revenge porn" site and used it to extort money from victims has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. He will get to see some revenge porn first hand.

http://fxn.ws/1y5NOlO

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:43 AM (wlDny)

30 More anti-Israel hate from Obama's State Department.

A State Department official dismissed a plea Friday from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Iran nuclear agreement include clear recognition of his nation's right to exist, declaring negotiations are only about the nuclear issue.

That's diplo speak for we don't give a shit what you evil joos want and we know everything is off the table.

http://fxn.ws/1CDGfkM

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:43 AM (wlDny)

31 The Secret Service reportedly is being accused of leaking private information on how Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, one of the agency's toughest critics, was rejected for a job there more than a decade ago.

So they "apologized". Why isn't someone being fired and charged with a crime? Oh, they are "investigating". So why did they apologize? I suspect the investigation will be completed about a year after the next election. This has been the standard foot dragging and delaying tactics of this corrupt administration.

http://fxn.ws/1NIhG9t

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:43 AM (wlDny)

32 Effective July 1, KS residents will be allowed to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Good news as the gun grabbing nuts have used these permits to track down gun owners and publish their names and addresses in the paper.

http://fxn.ws/1BYONAm

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:44 AM (wlDny)

33 The Camero-Mustang wars are on again. Question is, will loyal Camero fans forgive Government Motors?

http://fxn.ws/1GTlVz5

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:44 AM (wlDny)

34 On Friday, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, along with Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and ICE Deputy Assistant Secretary Salda�a warning them not to release an illegal immigrant with drug-resistant tuberculosis into the general public.

So what are they going to do besides blow hot air? Everything is off the table. And we know McShitty would never do anything anyway.

http://bit.ly/1y5A3Ud

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:44 AM (wlDny)

35 In the latest barb of a recent conservative onslaught aimed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new watchdog group said Friday it has asked the Federal Election Commission to determine whether she has violated campaign laws by failing to formally declare her presidential candidacy.

And notice how McClatchy here calls this a "conservative onslaught" against poor suffering Scankles. Of course she is violating the law, but all you wingnuts must realize that the Clintons are exempt from laws because it is not covered by Scottish law or something.

http://bit.ly/1BZ3tyc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:45 AM (wlDny)

36 Washed up has-been endorses Scankles.

http://bit.ly/1CoHssE

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:45 AM (wlDny)

37 Obama statement on the murder of Kenyan Christians by muzzie terrorists is worse than useless.

http://bit.ly/1GrR0Jn

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:45 AM (wlDny)

38 The WH press core is sending a list of "demands" to Obama. No word on whether or not they include the demand that he drop his shorts so they can kiss his ass while it is bare.

http://bit.ly/1Frw1oQ

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:45 AM (wlDny)

39 Proponents of the Global Warming religion are going to desperate lengths now to push their crap. Why? Obama is doing it on his own anyway because everything of off the table.

http://bit.ly/19PDRNn

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:46 AM (wlDny)

40 The Iran talks in a nutshell.

The following sentence appeared in an early Wednesday Reuters update on the current state of the talks over Iran's nuclear program:

Negotiators have a tentative agreement on the rough outline of a possible public statement on the progress they have made so far that would also highlight areas of disagreement, diplomats close to the talks said.

Amazing.

http://washex.am/1P7bxHl

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:46 AM (wlDny)

41 Good Morning Daywalkers...er... Morons and ett's.

Eclipse was very visible here, looked like perhaps half the Moon was eclipsed, still going on but it dropped into the treeline and clouds are rolling in so I came back inside. No pictures, but it did happen!

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at April 04, 2015 06:46 AM (74McK)

42 Vic,
I was wondering where you were!
Good Morning.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:47 AM (sj3Ax)

43 The Daily Deals have not changed since yesterday.

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:47 AM (wlDny)

44 Arrgh! My precious retinas!

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 06:48 AM (Vh+W5)

45 I loved my Z-28.

Didn't have money to put gas in it.

IF I had gas, couldn't afford to burn it because I need the gasoline to get to work.

I've heard that females are a lot like that; if she was hot, I couldn't afford her. If she was fast, it was too dangerous to drive her.

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 06:48 AM (z9VMD)

46 Times flies when you are having fun!

Was it only two weeks ago the conventional wisdom had it that...

It would be Hillary 2016
Harry Reid was Senate Majority Leader for Life
Dick Durbin was the Senate Whip
Rahmbo was a shoo-in for re-election.

Where will we be in another two weeks?

Enquiring minds want to know! Will the ballerina school dropout ever get his matching asparagus green/bone white hoodie and tutu outfit in time for the Easter Parade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKt54TFrxMc

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 06:49 AM (EMi53)

47 BREAKING: Ancient Mariner tells local TV news reporter in Bridgeport, Conn., that he refuses to tell his story to guests with his tales at gay weddings!

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 06:49 AM (wdXFj)

48 (... or something.)

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 06:50 AM (wdXFj)

49 The word "regale" is missing there, I think.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 06:51 AM (Vh+W5)

50 42 Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:47 AM (sj3Ax)

Good Morning Carol

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:52 AM (wlDny)

51

DAY 878

585 to go (658 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2015 06:52 AM (St6BJ)

52 CJ 428 sideoiler stuffed into a KR500 was a friends ride back in the day. I hear the new Mustang runs circles around it's performance stats.

PS... GM will never be able to sell me a car, give? maybe, but I will not invest money in a company that screwed its stock holders over like that to pay off GD overpaid useless union thugs.

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at April 04, 2015 06:52 AM (74McK)

53 Obama to bring in another round of Hispanics from Central America in a program that classifies them as refugees and makes them eligible for citizenship bypassing the normal immigration process which again, is illegal.
__________________________

They're not even bothering anymore with the fiction that these people are in any kind of danger in their home countries -- which is what is supposed to be established before one can claim "refugee" status. No, they're just handing out "refugee" status like it's Halloween candy -- even though it entitles the "refugee" to the full panoply of federal (and many state) welfare benefits.

This insanity -- all of which is blatantly illegal -- will end up costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars every year for decades, and that is on top of the hundreds of billions of dollars a year we're already spending on the millions of illegal aliens already living in the U.S. and sucking up enormous public resources. The situation was already bad enough, but now Obama is rubbing our faces in it by using our money to FLY more illegal alien poor into the country.

This is more than an outrage; it is clear treason. We already have record numbers of Americans out of work, and we've got $17 trillion in debt, and hundreds of trillions more in unfunded liabilities. The last thing we need, or can afford, is to be flying in thousands more unskilled, uneducated, poor foreigners to park themselves on our welfare rolls.

And meanwhile, the useless fuckwits in the Republican party sit on their thumbs and do nothing to stop Obama's lawlessness.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 04, 2015 06:53 AM (lmdHn)

54 53 And meanwhile, the useless fuckwits in the Republican party sit on their thumbs and do nothing to stop Obama's lawlessness.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 04, 2015 06:53 AM (lmdHn)

As I posted yesterday, 3/4 of them go immediately on welfare and stay there for life. And the repukes?

They are off the table.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:55 AM (wlDny)

55
Hope you shape shifters had a nice first seder. Haven't attended one in years and have never conducted one. Maybe next year (which I said last year).

Happy Easter too!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2015 06:57 AM (St6BJ)

56 Thank you, Vic.
How are you & Mrs. today?

Did I post my brother wanted NM only because it has no national weather events? That's his only reason & limits less than half the state.
Anything near or that has I40 above it has winter.

I'd much rather take my chance in Marble Falls, Texas.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:58 AM (sj3Ax)

57 Here's one from the classical jukebox for all you Peanuts fans!

Imagine you are Lucy as Schroeder starts to play...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAsDLGjMhFI

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 06:59 AM (EMi53)

58 Kind of a pink crescent now. "Blood" overstates it.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 07:00 AM (Vh+W5)

59 56 Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 06:58 AM (sj3Ax)

We are doing good, thanks. I would avoid NM like the plague. TX is much better.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 07:00 AM (wlDny)

60 Thank you J. J.
It's not your fault but it's not soon enough for zero to be out!

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:01 AM (sj3Ax)

61 Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven

I think I remember that story, but it's within my price range so grabbed a copy and will re-read it.

Interesting to see it mentioned as just last night re-watched the movie "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage.

It has a sad ending. I cried. The people behave somewhat irrationally which is frustrating. You want to see your heros being heroic, not in a panic. Kinda fits the mode of the moment.

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 07:03 AM (z9VMD)

62 Alix Bryan has apparently lawyered up and posted this on her twitter account.

https://twitter.com/alixbryan/status/584180649050898432

In order to truly savor this letter, watch a few episodes of "Better Call Saul" to appreciate the creativity of her new story.

Her basic contention is that she is a lousy researcher and a lousy reporter. That is not a crime. It is, however, something that her employers ought to fire her over. The link to Ms.Bryan's twitter feed on the station's web site indicates some level of endorsement. I knew who had set up the GoFundMe site long before she did and I do not claim to be either a researcher or a reporter. Research and reporting skills are what CBS6 theoretically pay her for. If CBS6 does not fire her, they are making a public statement that they are content with incompetent researchers and that the quality of their reporting is abysmally low.

Her claim that she was concerned that people supporting the beleagured pizza shop owners were being swindled is laughable. It is refuted by her earlier posts that she refers to in her lawyer authored statement. Ms.Bryant would be delighted to see a bunch of homophobic rubes get swindled.

If Alix Bryant were a real reporter instead of a Social Justice Warrior with access to the megaphone of a news organization, she would have researched the that the initial story was ginned up by another young female reporter who took advantage of the naivete of some small town pizza shop owner. The reporter got her story and the life of the naive woman was turned upside down. That sort of stuff has been going on since the first newspaper was printed and the first reporter needed a story by deadline.

While Alix Bryant and other junior reporters might learn a lesson about being more circumspect in their social media postings from this episode, the rest of us should take away the lesson that the only response one should ever give to a reporter is the same response one should give to the police, "Talk to my lawyer."

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 07:03 AM (KDbAT)

63 The Haunted Forest!

Scary!!!! Beware the Russian Trolls!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJbruRZDNpQ

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:04 AM (EMi53)

64 I saw the Homosexual Overlords open for Butthole Surfers back in 92 at some crappy warehouse bar in ATL. Pretentious, bad sound, and the bassist puked onstage.

Posted by: Jaws at April 04, 2015 07:06 AM (Rbtz3)

65 Those Damn Persians and their 1,001 excuses!

Some things never change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:06 AM (EMi53)

66 Just last week I purchased two Mohu Leaf 50 flat indoor antennas, and severed the relationship with ComCast.
We were only paying $25.00 a month for absolute basic, with nothing in HD.
Now?
17 Channels, including the major three side channels, all in HD.

Fios is coming to our block next week, and I am considering imply the digital phone, and 50/50 internet with no TV. Then take the new Roku3 that we bought last week, and with the Amazon Prime, which we already have, and HuluPlus, that should cover everything we need.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:06 AM (/eHbj)

67 Moon about 1/2 covered as it sank into the treeline.

In other news, 26F, clear, light breezes, sun rising as expected.

AnnaPuma, that was a great story.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2015 07:07 AM (go6ud)

68 Obnoxious A hole,
Are you from Texas& if so what area?

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:08 AM (sj3Ax)

69 I had a fleeting thought that diverged from lefty fascist dogma.

It was just for a second, honest.

Please allow me to continue to live.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 07:09 AM (lG2E3)

70 That's it. One last glimpse of crimson, and it sank under the treeline. I was nearly fully eclipsed, which I did not expect from here.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 07:10 AM (Vh+W5)

71 It's true. I was.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 07:10 AM (Vh+W5)

72 66 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:06 AM (/eHbj)

The cable/satellite here charges ~50.00/month for basic. The problem I have is my house is down in a valley between two hills and my reception downstairs is bad. I can only get two stations and one of them is intermittent. However, upstairs I can get a lot. Its just a PITA to go upstairs to watch any TV.

Good thing I don't really care anything about TV.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 07:12 AM (wlDny)

73 I missed the eclipse! About what time was it? I usually cant see things b/c of trees or buildings obscuring it. Oh, well.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 07:13 AM (iQIUe)

74 Read about a whole bunch of money falling out of a back of a Brinks truck. If you found it and decided not to return it, how wd you launder it? Can you launder marked bills? Wd they be marked? Probaby not.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 07:15 AM (iQIUe)

75 6:22 to 7:10 Eastern time, Bruce. Largely unremarked upon, but neat.

Posted by: Rev at April 04, 2015 07:17 AM (Vh+W5)

76 "The problem I have is my house is down in a valley between two hills and my reception downstairs is bad"

Any chance of putting something up in the attic, and dropping coax down to the first floor?

Some of these new antennas are nothing but a sheet of plastic, the size of a piece of standard printer paper.

I put both of ours behind paintings on the walls, and most people don't even notice that they are there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:17 AM (/eHbj)

77 Can you launder marked bills?

I'd give it one helluva good try.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 07:17 AM (lG2E3)

78 Vic,
I looked at NM & found its a very poor state, liberal, high crime. What more can a state have wrong with it before ruling it out? As of late yesterday afternoon he hasn't found anywhere yet.

Illegals are all over the place & more to come, but I don't want to live near Mexican border. They're a big problem in NM too.
They're in Massachusetts too. We have quite a few Sanctuary cities.

Send them all,back is my solution.
I'm sure if I broke a law, I'd be treated much worse than illegals who committed same crime.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:17 AM (sj3Ax)

79 Carol:

Marble Falls is quite nice. You may also consider Wimberly, New Braunfels, Kerville, or San Marcos. The Texas Hill Country is a good place to live. If you're considering NM, Ruidoso is the place-it's populated by Texans, and very beautiful.

Posted by: Nikkolai at April 04, 2015 07:18 AM (aEfC9)

80 I am considering imply the digital phone, and 50/50 internet with no TV.

Not sure if you need 50/50 -- I have FIOS 25/25 -- four tvs streaming HD through 3 Fire Sticks and an Apple tv, all while surfing the web on a Samsung smartphone. It doesn't bat an eye.

But bigger is better.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 07:19 AM (xQX/f)

81 Why is counterfeiting illegal? If you do it well--if no one detects your homemade cash as counterfeit--what difference does it make?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 07:20 AM (lG2E3)

82
http://rt.com/news/246757-australia-islam-protests-violence/

Ya, I don't know, but four people with minor injuries doesn't really sound like 'violence' to me.

Drunken hooligans at a football game do more than that.

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 07:21 AM (z9VMD)

83 @74 Not an expert, but I did used to dispatch biggish amounts of cash every day, back when there was real money, and it had to be handled. Every cash pouch would have an ink-spray packet in there, so if it was roughly opened the bills would be "self-marking." I'd imagine that for regularly scheduled cash shipments, a company like Brinks would do something similar.

OTOH, I've encountered red-tinted bills out in the real world many times, and nobody freaked out. With the New Money we have now, you have to wonder if anybody would even notice.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 07:21 AM (xq1UY)

84 "Can you launder marked bills?"

Best way is to spend the cash in small markets with no cameras and young clerks where nobody knows you. But if their bank refuses the notes, you'd be stealing from that store.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 07:21 AM (wdXFj)

85 76 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:17 AM (/eHbj)

I would have to drill a hole through the wall and I do not want to do that just for TV. And I have two of those little plastic square antennas. They have a metal grid of some kind inside the square and they do pick up pretty good, but only if you have signal to begin with. Those high frequency digital signals are really quirky and line of site only.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 07:21 AM (wlDny)

86 Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEUtN21cuU

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:21 AM (EMi53)

87 At the last minute the university cancelled citing fear of litigation or some shit.
--------------------------------

But, would they bake a cake????

Posted by: JDub (was BunkerintheBurbs) at April 04, 2015 07:22 AM (X3xYu)

88 "33
The Camero-Mustang wars are on again. Question is, will loyal Camero fans forgive Government Motors?

http://fxn.ws/1GTlVz5

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 06:44 AM (wlDny)"

My opinion on the Camaro was established back when I was on site at a project for several weeks. I had gotten a Taurus at the car rental place but several of the other people working on site had Camaros. They told me that I could just go back to the car rental place and exchange the Taurus for a Camaro. Well, I was single at the time and that sounded like a good idea. The road between the airport where the car rental place was and the town where the job site was is one that I had driven frequently in the Taurus without concern and while fiddling with the radio. It was a different experience in the Camaro. I did not dare take my hands off the wheel and I probably drove the whole way 10 miles an hour slower. The four door Taurus handled better, had better visibility, had better acceleration and better braking. The Camaro looked sportier and had a better radio.

I have never forgotten that lesson.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 07:23 AM (KDbAT)

89 Hey, Big Spender!!!

;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igZq5Qb5HlY

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:24 AM (EMi53)

90 Even enemies can learn to work together!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luef1H24hU8

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (EMi53)

91 U2 says "Early morning, April 4, a shot rings out in a Memphis sky" but Martin Luther King was shot in the evening. So who got shot in the U2 song?

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (wdXFj)

92 @81 In the glory days of Secret Service, they used to call those exquisite craftsmen a "Penman Jim." There were many cases of guys spending more time on a bill than its face value was worth. It was the thrill, and the artisanship, you see.

IIRC that marking ink had a scent to it too. Supposed to be a dead giveaway, "Why, nobody would take that." Times have certainly changed. So has the S.S.

One of the first things you used to do when you went to war, in Westphalian States, was heavily counterfeit the enemy's currency. There are some movies about that, particularly death-camp inmates who lived only for their forgery skills. Imagine someone trying to inflate our currency, or the E.U.'s? It is to laugh.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (xq1UY)

93 I have never owned a Camero. I did have a 1979 Mustang but that was a bad year for all cars. That 79 Mustang was a 4 cylinder POS. I traded it in on a V6 Mustang convertible a few years later. That was a much better car. Unfortuately my daughter started making noises like she considered it to be hers. So I traded it and my wife's car for a Crown Vic. First words out of daughter's mouth "You traded by convertible for a cop car!"

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (wlDny)

94
Dont think it was marked bills but it was in 50s and 100s which may be difficult to get rid of:

http://goo.gl/UYdwwP

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (iQIUe)

95 Houston Chronicle publishes an article from a stringer in Tikrit. (apparently) Ok, no. Chron republishes an AP story from someone in Tikrit including the obligatory statement from anonymous government sources who are not authorized to speak to the media but do anyway.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/o2qhg8h

Posted by: Ernie Wist at April 04, 2015 07:28 AM (z9VMD)

96 Nikkolai,
I looked at Ruidioso & I have rose garden & Ji. From Galveston told me two months ago I would need a jackhammer to plant roses there & I love my garden.
It's kept me sane when everything else was falling apart.

Hill Country is my choice.
My older brother has to stop playing solitaire & look in NM seriously.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:29 AM (sj3Ax)

97 Cyber warriors have to have lots of tricks up their sleeves!!!

Even old guys can surprise you!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgnHpfEogo

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:31 AM (EMi53)

98
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson called to personally apologize to House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) Thursday night after reports that Secret Service employees may have circulated personnel information revealing that Chaffetz had once been rejected for a job at the elite agency.

Whistleblowers within DHS had complained to the House panel that some employees had been circulating private information about Chaffetz in a bid to embarrass him.

The Hill

You confirmed Jeh Johnson 78-16, so embrace the suck Senate GOP.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 04, 2015 07:31 AM (kdS6q)

99 "Not sure if you need 50/50 -- I have FIOS 25/25 -- four tvs streaming HD through 3 Fire Sticks and an Apple tv, all while surfing the web on a Samsung smartphone. It doesn't bat an eye.
"

That's some good information to know.
We would be pushing at most, two tv's and a playstation at the same time.

And right now I can run a single TV on the 3mps broadband with no buffering. It slows down the laptop, but does run.
So, i'm thinking going from 3 to 25mps might give me what I need.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:32 AM (/eHbj)

100 How can you defend a Western culture you don't even know exists?

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:37 AM (EMi53)

101 "68
Obnoxious A hole,

Are you from Texas if so what area?

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:08 AM (sj3Ax)"

I am not from Texas but I live here now. I have lived all over the United States (including Massachusetts for a few years when I was a kid) and I would rather live here than anywhere else. I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, not too far from DFW airport. By the way, my name ought to be an indication that I am actually a yankee with a Texas driver's license. Native Texans tend to be friendly and courteous. A bit raucous some times but generally some of the nicest people I've met anywhere. It takes a while to get used to people being polite and at first it requires a bit of effort to be polite back but it is a better way to live.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 07:38 AM (KDbAT)

102 Judging by the Lerner investigation, if you caught Jeh turning the crank on a counterfeiter's press and started a Congressional the next morning, the DOJ would decline to indict approximately two years after he leaves the job.

Unless he does a Menendez, he's golden. "The Panther's Feast."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 07:39 AM (xq1UY)

103 That's some good information to know.

I think I found the 'suggested requirements' at a Verizon link. Something like 3-5 mg for each HD tv. I usually have no more then 2 tvs and the smartphone going at the same time.

But then the 'kids' show up and they break out their tablets, computers, and smartphones (then get my wi-fi password) and I suspect I'm close to maxed out.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 07:40 AM (xQX/f)

104 Since the militant left believe that Christian businesses should have to serve homosexual marriages, I wonder if they feel that a black owned business should cater to Klan members who arrive in their dress whites? Or a Jewish owned business should cater to Nazis? What if the Klan members and Nazis don't say anything untoward to the business owners? They just placed their orders and took a seat. Acceptable or no?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 04, 2015 07:41 AM (KlVdw)

105 Texas definitely has its share of trouble but the miscreants tend to wind up locked away for long periods or put on death row.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 04, 2015 07:44 AM (dUqfn)

106 "Acceptable or no?"

I asked some of my lefty friends about this. It has no effect on them--I got nothing but blank stares. Things have devolved past the point at which reasonable discourse can change people's opinions on matters of public policy.

They're mindless drones and they won't have it any other way.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 07:44 AM (lG2E3)

107 104

Under the concept of 'protected class,' all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

There are approved minorities that get power to enforce against unapproved ones.

'Human' rights (those shared by all) are subordinated to special class rights of specific, and approved, groups.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 07:45 AM (MMC8r)

108 Will somebody tell Putin St. Petersburg was founded by the SWEDES!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenschantz

Nyenschantz (Swedish: Nyenskans, Finnish: Nevanlinna)

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:46 AM (EMi53)

109 "I think I found the 'suggested requirements' at a Verizon link. Something like 3-5 mg for each HD tv. I usually have no more then 2 tvs and the smartphone going at the same time. "

That puts me right in the window for 25mps service.
Thanks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 07:46 AM (/eHbj)

110 104 Posted by: Darth Randall at April 04, 2015 07:41 AM (KlVdw)

Note: For those who don't know or don't remember, the KKK were allowed to march in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Skokie, IL back in 1977.

The ACLU defended them in court and their lead counsel was Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, aka Ruth Baader-Meinhoff.

Spread that on your matzah and eat it.

Bitter herb, indeed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2015 07:47 AM (St6BJ)

111 OK morons a question.

If I drop the cable and go to streaming, isn't that gonna require a data plan with a shitload of gigs?

How much with that much data cost? Currently have cable and a 10 gig data plan which ain't cheap.

I'm prolly missing something (not unlikely) but too watch TV over the net seems like it's gonna require a huge data plan.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 04, 2015 07:48 AM (Z21bn)

112 108 Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:46 AM (EMi53)

If only the Scandi's had conquered the mongoloid Russkies.

Meh, St. Petersburg would probably have Muzzy no-go areas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2015 07:48 AM (St6BJ)

113
"Acceptable or no?"

Saw a version of this on the rant-n-raves yesterday: what if a "Black-owned" florist were asked to produce a floral replica of the battle flag for a Sons of The Confederacy memorial? I almost jumped on that one. The Sons have quite a few black members, for one reason or another. Fifty thousand black men, sir, fought for Dixie. It would take such a modern-liberal not to know that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 07:49 AM (xq1UY)

114 "105
Texas definitely has its share of trouble but the miscreants tend to wind up locked away for long periods or put on death row.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 04, 2015 07:44 AM (dUqfn)"

In the aftermath of Katrina, New Orleans' criminals fled to Texas along with the rest of the population. They were horrified to learn that in Texas murder is considered to be a serious crime and gets more than 90 days in country jail like in Louisiana. For the most part they went back to New Orleans while many of the decent people from that city stayed.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 07:49 AM (KDbAT)

115 Imagine someone trying to inflate our currency, or the E.U.'s?
___________________________

If they wanted to inflate our currency to the point where it has no value, they'd find that our government has already beat them to it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 04, 2015 07:50 AM (lmdHn)

116 "It would take such a modern-liberal not to know that."

They're so stupid. And so goddam smug.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 07:50 AM (lG2E3)

117 everybody should just go only to their respective culturally normative restaurants and never be exposed to anything that might upset their sensibilities. no Muslims at jewish delis, gays on l y at gay sammich shops, etc

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 04, 2015 07:51 AM (TWAUl)

118 Darth Randall (#104) -

Short answer: No.

The Left's rules are arbitrary, ginned up case by case. As a way of entertaining myself, I tried to figure out the logic behind political correctness and, based on this logic, I came up with a new PC rule:

Don't say "Westerns" as a genre of entertainment. Call them "frontier stories" instead.

My logic was this: A lot of people lived in the Western United States in the 19th century, but only the white people went west to get there. (The Indians, whose ancestors came over the land bridge, went south; the Mexicans went north; the Chinese went east.) So to call it "the West" is America-centric at best and white-person-centric (i.e., racist) at worst.

When I tried out my new rule on left-wing acquaintances, it fell flat.

My take-away is that the real foundation of political correctness is that someone comes up with a rule and dammit you follow it - not that there's any underlying reason behind it.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 07:51 AM (64tBw)

119 We're 5 minutes away from total eclipse here in western CO. Great views with clear sky, minimal city lights.

It occurs to me that in olden days watching an eclipse might have had the same significance as an event as say the Super Bowl. With a better half-time show.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 07:52 AM (NeFrd)

120 Obnoxious A Hole,
I'm polite until one isn't the same to me.
I managed to cut & paste post from someone who called CS yesterday & person at other end of phone said he was proud Texan.
It's the only state that I know of where most people are proud to live in.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 07:54 AM (sj3Ax)

121 I'm invited to attend a messianic jew or maybe judaising primitivist Christian Seder this evening. I'm not especially keen

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 04, 2015 07:54 AM (NpzKy)

122 I was rooting for the moon, but it fell behind early. With a little luck though, it may emerge to really shine in the second half.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 07:54 AM (NeFrd)

123 Partial view o' the eclipse. Still pretty cool.

Posted by: Gem at April 04, 2015 07:55 AM (c+gwp)

124 @119 You have to admit, virgin sacrifice made a hell of a half-time show.
And you get...Janet Jackson.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 07:56 AM (xq1UY)

125 It would take such a modern-liberal not to know that.

The gay wedding hysteria is a great illustration of the truth of that. They parrot little arguments like Moo Moo's 'shellfish' argument and think they're brilliantly effective but don't know enough about the subject to know that's its laughably wrong.

They begin with the premise of their brilliance and your stupidity, and assume that each one of their 'brilliant' points has never been raised (and shot down) before.

Religion's been around a long time, libs, and tested by people a lot more informed and intelligent than you, and for millennia. You aren't going to find the brilliant new argument that destroys it all on Reddit.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 07:58 AM (MMC8r)

126 So, eclipse peaks at 5 am in LA. Checked outside. No fog but cant see anything due to tree and buildings. Ends around 730. Have to go out at 6 so manybe I wil see something.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 07:58 AM (iQIUe)

127
Still cant figure out if Angel of Death swoops over tonight at midnight or it was a few hours ago. How creepy to have a blood moon at that time.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:00 AM (iQIUe)

128 Ah, Texas. Never been there, but anyway -

Went into a Northeastern liquor store around 2005 or so - asked the woman working there (presumably the proprietress) for two things. Prefaced that they were both long shots. "Do you have pisco?"

"No, we don't get much call for that. You could try this place or that place, yadda yadda. Sorry."

"How about wine from Texas."

"No." Not another word. She wouldn't even look at me, just went back to her work. I said the T word. She was offended. I was hence unwelcome in her store.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:00 AM (64tBw)

129 But for the love of G-d, cut the cable and stop feeding the MSM and MSNBC.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 06:23 AM (xQX/f)

*********

I recall, I was watching MTV about 10-15 years ago and they had some special segment about gay and bisexual teens. One of them was a big fan of Henry Rollins, and said at one point "I want 'property of Henry Rollins' tattooed on my ass".

That was the moment where I said to myself "why the f*ck am I paying for this? No more"

I cancelled next month and have been tv free since. I periodically watch movies from the library, but no tv. I've never regretted it.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 04, 2015 08:01 AM (XrHO0)

130 Alix Bryan was really being a scrunt last night. She is trying to lie her way out of her BS.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:01 AM (iQIUe)

131 "108
Will somebody tell Putin St. Petersburg was founded by the SWEDES!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenschantz

Nyenschantz (Swedish: Nyenskans, Finnish: Nevanlinna)

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 04, 2015 07:46 AM (EMi53)"

Putin is right. The Swedes built a fort and a village. Peter the Great built a major port city. The land it is built on was swamp before Peter brought in the serfs to do construction. The Russians say St.Petersburg is built on a foundation of bones. They are not that far wrong.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 08:02 AM (KDbAT)

132 "Alix Bryan was really being a scrunt last night. She is trying to lie her way out of her BS."

I'll go 'way out on a limb here and predict she gets away with it.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 08:02 AM (lG2E3)

133 This is on Drudge ->FBI: Tycoon Was Extorted By Gay Porn Star Overload For Refusing Him a Tossed Salad

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/gay-porn-star-extortion-case-897653

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at April 04, 2015 08:03 AM (ir3Yt)

134 I meant to spell Overlord, dammit.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at April 04, 2015 08:04 AM (ir3Yt)

135 Bigby, could be worse. You could Seder at the White House. Those things remind me of the horror movies where dim teenagers find the Necronomicon in the attic and just start reading aloud. Institutional interplay with Powers and Dominions is not for amateurs.

You should have been at my primitivist seder. Shrimp wrapped in bacon and cheese, bitter, bitter herbs, a bubbly Moden-Dave, and bread of affliction.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:04 AM (xq1UY)

136 If I drop the cable and go to streaming, isn't that gonna require a data plan with a shitload of gigs?

Just to give you an idea of cost my FIOS 25/25 costs 74.99/month -- no tax on top of that. There are lesser plans and more expensive. But like I said above I can be on laptop, smartphone, and have a couple HD tvs all running at the same time. So it's *just* enough for me.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 08:05 AM (xQX/f)

137 Totality or thereof for the lunar eclipse ...

Posted by: Adriane the Lunar Ranging Critic ... at April 04, 2015 08:09 AM (nSOh+)

138 Their headline, not mine:

Longwood bakery takes heat for refusing to make anti-gay cake
http://tinyurl.com/p8t6xph

When a caller asked Sharon Haller to make a sheet cake with an anti-gay-marriage message, the Longwood baker thought it was a prank and hung up.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 08:10 AM (MMC8r)

139 Alix Bryan was really being a scrunt last night. She is trying to lie her way out of her BS.

Don't mess with Dana Loesch. She's a pit bull.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 08:11 AM (MMC8r)

140 "Just to give you an idea of cost my FIOS 25/25 costs 74.99/month"
Is that for just the inter webs, or inter webs and phone?
And is there any data cap with that?

Cause what you have sounds like what will fit me best.
As Fios won't go live in our alley till next week, Verizon is unable to talk to me now, even though we have the door hanger that says to call.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 08:12 AM (/eHbj)

141 I went to a town hall yesterday afternoon to see Ted Cruz. I even got to shake his hand, which was pretty cool. The place was standing room only and believe it or not, there were a few groups of African Americans who came to see him, too. Cruz is a very good public speaker. He has a powerful, strong voice. He's very optimistic about America and thinks we're on the verge of another Reagan era. Even spoke without a note card or dummy prompter. One lady asked that he promise *not* to listen to the big GOP cronies, Chamber of Commerce types and consultants that ruin every other Republican candidate. He was very adamant that he's bypassing them and the media to reach out directly to Americans. Only time will tell how it all pans out, and I have no doubt his road will be tough. Long knives are out on both sides and the MFM will continue to slaughter him. But he sure had a lot of people come out yesterday to see him. And I saw lots of young men, in the 18 year old range as well. One even brought a copy of the Constitution hoping for an autograph.

/WOT

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2015 08:13 AM (OyXrl)

142 "Religion's been around a long time, libs, and tested
by people a lot more informed and intelligent than you, and for
millennia. You aren't going to find the brilliant new argument that
destroys it all on Reddit.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 07:58 AM (MMC8r)"

You can make the argument that even if you don't believe it, traditional religion is kind of like really stable software, Version 99999 with most of the bugs worked out over the last couple of thousand years. They generally respond that they are so smart that they can figure out a better way. It is kind of like the "socialism never worked before because the right people were not in charge but this time is different" argument.

I then generally move on to the argument that you may not believe it and think that religion is silly but keep in mind the Sepoy Mutiny. I think it is silly to worry about biting off the end of a paper cartridge that has been greased with lard or beef tallow but a lot of other people took that seriously and a great deal of unpleasantness resulted. If you would like to avoid unpleasantness, don't poke people for the hell of it. The Muslims seem to understand how this works.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 08:13 AM (KDbAT)

143 I squinted really hard and in the penumbra of the eclipse I was just able to make out the true intent of the Founders. Maybe I should be on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:14 AM (NeFrd)

144 Total eclipse of the moon...

...it's a tax.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:15 AM (NeFrd)

145 Pay up, or you'll never see the moon again!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:15 AM (NeFrd)

146 29 The CA man who operated the "revenge porn" site and used it to extort money from victims has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. He will get to see some revenge porn first hand.

http://fxn.ws/1y5NOlO

Posted by: Vic

I'm betting it won't be hand, first or otherwise and most of it he'll need eyes in the back of his head to see anything but pillow.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 04, 2015 08:15 AM (TIgJq)

147 130 Alix Bryan was really being a scrunt last night. She is trying to lie her way out of her BS.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:01 AM (iQIUe)

Yeah, her "My intent was to stop what could of been theft of donations." line doesn't square with her tweet:

@alixbryan Apr 1

@cafedarkness It would be pretty awesome if it was just a vigilante who wants to take money from bigots.

Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2015 08:16 AM (v0/PR)

148 For the most part they went back to New Orleans while many of the decent people from that city stayed.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 07:49 AM (KDbAT)

What city ??

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 04, 2015 08:16 AM (R8hU8)

149 "Alix Bryan ... trying to lie her way out of her BS."

First, she feels really, really strongly about the gay wedding stuff.

Then she says she was only trying to protect the people who disagree with her on the gay wedding stuff.

Because her integrity and her sense of justice transcend her politics, especially in regards an issue that she feels really, really, really strongly about.

Mm-hmm.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:17 AM (64tBw)

150 "Ph'nglui mglw nafh Obama Whitehouse w'gah nagl golfing." -Abdul Val Jarrett

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 04, 2015 08:18 AM (XrHO0)

151 JJS, thanks for the interesting detail about Ginsburg.
Though I lived in Chi at the time and had a lot of friends in Skokie, I forgot that if I ever knew it.

That was right around the time I noticed the ACLU's biases and started losing respect for them.
(plenty of time for Illinois Nazis, but no time for Second Amendment)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2015 08:20 AM (go6ud)

152 Drudge looks almost the same as yesterday.
Except for new headline Blood Moon Rising.

I can barely keep my eyes open. It must be three days of only eating Ritz crackers. I'm going to go rest.

If anyone's got more info about Marble Falls & Texas Hill Country please email me at
Carolthewiz@ gmail.com

Thank you,

Have a good morning.

Posted by: Carol at April 04, 2015 08:22 AM (sj3Ax)

153 91 U2 says "Early morning, April 4, a shot rings out in a Memphis sky" but Martin Luther King was shot in the evening. So who got shot in the U2 song?

Posted by: FireHorse

It was early morning in Ireland.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 04, 2015 08:23 AM (TIgJq)

154 Is that for just the inter webs, or inter webs and phone?
And is there any data cap with that?

No data cap on internet. Only restriction is the speed per second. Use a little, use a lot, same price -- 74.99/month.

Here's how I work it -- my smartphone/cellphone service is with Consumer Cellular @ about 32.50 per month. Two phones, about 200 texts per month, and very small data. I quickly figured out I could turn *their* data off and use my own wi-fi for data. Once I leave the house I turn their data back on -- if the need arises.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 08:24 AM (xQX/f)

155 Too funny!

Deion Sanders Sr. shames his son on Twitter:

Deion Sanders Jr

Gotta get the hood doughnuts almost every morning. If my doughnuts don't come in a plain white box, I don't want them!

Deion Sanders

@DeionSandersJr you're a Huxtable with a million $ trust fund stop the hood stuff! Lololol. Son. #Truth

Posted by: Tami at April 04, 2015 08:26 AM (v0/PR)

156 See that DiCaprio is building some billionaires retreat off of Belize for the environment? LOL

He doesnt need the money and rich people dont need more homes. I have no idea why he is doing this. Frankly, I think he is cheap. His charities are all bogus. They are these vanity eco projects. I dont think he has helped one person down on their luck get ahead. A lot of rich actors are that way. Yet, they rail about the 1%.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:26 AM (iQIUe)

157 Why anyone wd want sex with a porno star beats me. They are disease laden and not right in the head.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:29 AM (iQIUe)

158 It's unfortunate that my state doesn't have party registration. Changing my registration to Democrat would be cheap insurance.

I got my mind right, Boss.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 08:30 AM (lG2E3)

159 "No data cap on internet. Only restriction is the speed per second. Use a little, use a lot, same price -- 74.99/month. "

Good to know on the data.
So you have no landline home phone, and just use cell phones?

Not sure if we are ready for that jump yet.
Maybe in the future, but not right yet.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 08:30 AM (/eHbj)

160 osted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:17 AM (64tBw)

Yes, she thinks she can do what she wants and then lie about it and eveyrone is so stupid tha they will believe her crap. .

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:32 AM (iQIUe)

161 Shortly after the moon disappeared, a large ball of fire appeared on the eastern horizon.

Should I be concerned?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:32 AM (NeFrd)

162 "Why anyone wd want sex with a porno star beats me."

It's a living.

Posted by: Another porno star at April 04, 2015 08:32 AM (64tBw)

163 What if the Klan members and Nazis don't say anything untoward to the business owners? They just placed their orders and took a seat. Acceptable or no?
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 04, 2015 07:41 AM (KlVdw)
*********
That's not even analogous to these pizza/cake cases, since these businesses would gladly sell pizzas and cakes to homosexuals. They just don't want to be coerced into participating in something that violates their conscience. But if some guy just came in the door and said "I eat smelly balls, please give me two slices of the Sicillian", they'd serve him.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 04, 2015 08:33 AM (3F6F8)

164 Dana Loesch, Pit Bull?
Oh, I saw what you did there.
That was very, very naughty. You ought to be ashamed.
Well played.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:33 AM (xq1UY)

165 "Yes, she thinks she can do what she wants and then lie about it and eveyrone is so stupid tha they will believe her crap."

She's right. Well, WE won't believe her, but WE don't count.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 08:33 AM (lG2E3)

166 appreciate it stringer

but this group is kinda odd.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 04, 2015 08:34 AM (Cq0oW)

167 157 Bruce J,

Case in point the delectable Molly Jane....

I guarded a few pron queens when they toured "dancing"....

One was the most level headed biz savvy client I ever had, the other two were wrecks with daddy issues.

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:34 AM (/4AZU)

168 "What city ??

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at April 04, 2015 08:16 AM (R8hU

"

Mostly Houston but also DFW.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 08:34 AM (KDbAT)

169 I got my mind right, Boss.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 08:30 AM (lG2E3)

***

Hiding in plain sight, not a bad strategy.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:34 AM (NeFrd)

170 They begin with the premise of their brilliance and your stupidity, and assume that each one of their 'brilliant' points has never been raised (and shot down) before.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at April 04, 2015 07:58 AM (MMC8r)

Exactly. But that's the maddening thing about Moo and leftists in general - they don't even pay attention to any rebuttal presented, because they're so in love with what they imagine is their own cleverness.

I feel bad for any children Moo might have. They're going to grow up being taught that money is the supreme value and people who believe in ethics and religion are fools.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 04, 2015 08:35 AM (+XMAD)

171 162 another porno star,

'til it's a dying....

//Marc Wallice

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:35 AM (/4AZU)

172 169 Seamus Muldoon,

Sidney Reilley hid in the newborn Soviet Secret Police under Dzerzhonski's nose...

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:38 AM (/4AZU)

173 Sven- I'm not familiar with Sidney Reilley. Interesting story?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:39 AM (NeFrd)

174 "165
"Yes, she thinks she can do what she wants and then lie about it and eveyrone is so stupid tha they will believe her crap."

She's right. Well, WE won't believe her, but WE don't count.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 04, 2015 08:33 AM (lG2E3)"

That thing Alix Bryant posted screams of being a lawyer's statement that was handed to her by her employer. Watch a couple of episodes of "Better Call Saul" for some entertaining lawyer rationalization of indefensible behavior.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at April 04, 2015 08:39 AM (KDbAT)

175 So you have no landline home phone, and just use cell phones?

Dumped the landline after Verizon refused to reveal to me who was sending me harassing phone calls -- the caller ID said the call was coming from my own number, or from the IRS. I know who it was and wanted to prosecute but Caller ID misrepresentation is not illegal. Yet.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 08:40 AM (xQX/f)

176 173 Seamus Muldoon,

One of the most....

He was a world class flim flam man that scared the hell out of Stalin...

Bing "Ace of Spies"

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:41 AM (/4AZU)

177 Her statement was incredibly dishonest. She knew who set up the website and who was sponsoring it. She also lied and said she contacted that Lawrence guy who said she never did. There is nothing she wont lie about b/c she believes she is a sjw.

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:43 AM (iQIUe)

178 Thanks

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:43 AM (NeFrd)

179 money is the supreme value and people who believe in ethics and religion are fools.

Story of Obama! Story of Obama!

I sound like Great-Aunt Tillie when I blame this on the Beatles, but, hey. The hipsterization of America proceeded apace, according to LIFE, in the Summer of Sgt Pepper's. Many's the time I've seen a swell hep notion (like "Not A Western" cited above) slouch around for a while yet never make it to Bethlehem. There's a committee someplace, like the paint guys who decide what color everything is going to be next season, who meet like the Stonecutters and decide what's hip now. Without that blessing, swing away, but you'll never be a Media God. So, not the Fab Four's fault, but they're the paradigm.

Case in point, 1965 London interview with Paul Simon, in which he dismisses Tolkien as "Aryan fairy tales." Maybe he had the wrong Ring, there.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:43 AM (xq1UY)

180 Donna @ 170: "... leftists in general - they don't even pay attention to any rebuttal presented ..."

Ain't that the truth. They say things like "but you think that ..." and I say "I never said that" and they keep going anyway.

Posted by: Another porno star at April 04, 2015 08:45 AM (64tBw)

181
The Reilly Ace of Spies mini series still holds up. Worth seeing. 3 thumbs up!

Posted by: Bruce J. at April 04, 2015 08:46 AM (iQIUe)

182 (sock off. FTR, never did porno.)

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:46 AM (64tBw)

183 "Why anyone wd want sex with a porno star beats me."

What if she *only* did girls?

The comedian Russell Peters does a whole bit on this. LOL funny. Then her contract got changed.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at April 04, 2015 08:48 AM (xQX/f)

184 Yeah, exactly.
They already know what we think 'cause msnbc tells them all about it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2015 08:48 AM (go6ud)

185 Reilly! I just made a Reilly joke here the other day. He was Ace of Spies, now we have Douche of Spies. Shit, if Muldoon doesn't get it, no wonder it fell flat.

He lived in Interesting Times. Among other things, sold a lot of Euro armament in China, so, probably responsible for the Ghetto Side-Hand pistol stance.

There you go, TV show plug during Turn It Off week, plus, gunthread after 100.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:50 AM (xq1UY)

186 178 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 04, 2015 08:43 AM (NeFrd)

Sorry was firing up the old PC comrade...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIfb3HjVo36anHQIAoWSQBBaAnGbotXVH

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:51 AM (/4AZU)

187 whiskey myers, early morning shakes

https://youtu.be/GpDcFFGdzbA

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 04, 2015 08:52 AM (u8GsB)

188 I took up seriously learning to play the piano a little over a year ago and now watch virtually no television which has let me cut back to basic service and Internet.

I don't watch tv and can entertain myself and guests.

Win-win all around.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2015 08:52 AM (BJLGz)

189 185 Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:50 AM (xq1UY)

Ace and I had a conversation on these lines in the original posting of that thread...

there is simply too much "old" quality entertainment to give two fucks about "losing" 97.5% ofd "modern" entertainment...

at any rate it was an excellent series.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 04, 2015 08:53 AM (/4AZU)

190 "They already know what we think 'cause msnbc tells them all about it."

The hive mentality, which they project onto the enemy. If Steve Doocy said something Fox & Friends then you MUST think the same thing.

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:54 AM (64tBw)

191 Sock off my ass. "Fire Horse" never did porno? Pics, or it happened.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:54 AM (xq1UY)

192 25 In his Good Friday address the Pope warns the world to not be like Pontius Pilot and ignore the persecution of Christians.

Good.

I forgot about the blood moon but I'm about to go for my walk outside. It's a little chilly, it's been almost 80 all week and the temp dropped for weekend. Annoying. At least it's not supposed to rain today...

Posted by: Lea at April 04, 2015 08:54 AM (GXNWP)

193 " the caller ID said the call was coming from my own number,"

This is actually not that uncommon.
We, and at least ten of our neighbors have had the exact same thing take place. I would not presume that it was an individual specifically targeting only our number.
We have a distinctive phone prefix, and it seems that they choose to spoof local numbers in an effort to influence people to answer a call based on the fact that they recognize the prefix.

Your situation may be different, but here, it's pretty common across all our community residents.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2015 08:55 AM (/eHbj)

194 "Pics, or it happened."

C'mon, no one can prove a negative (existence of God notwithstanding).

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 08:57 AM (64tBw)

195 New Age Religion are age-old heresies.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 04, 2015 08:58 AM (V70Uh)

196 I think SE Pa missed the point.

Posted by: Samsung's big fat one at April 04, 2015 09:03 AM (kyTFr)

197 Used to entertain myself by messing with evangelical atheists. When they tried to trap me by asking me to prove that God exists, I'd ask them to prove that God doesn't exist. Then they'd talk, and talk, and talk. I'd listen quietly. After a while, they think they've not only won the argument but have also won me over to atheism. Then I say, "You just tried to prove a negative proposition, which is impossible. You know that, right?"

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 09:03 AM (64tBw)

198 Case in point, 1965 London interview with Paul Simon, in which he dismisses Tolkien as "Aryan fairy tales." Maybe he had the wrong Ring, there.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 08:43 AM (xq1UY)

Yeah, probably confused Lord of the Rings with Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 04, 2015 09:04 AM (+XMAD)

199 newthread 8:30ish

Posted by: m at April 04, 2015 09:05 AM (WIUGG)

200 @194 What She Said.

So, John Renbourn died the other day, at his remote rural estate, full of years wisdom and pretty good wine. I saw Jacqui MacShee a few years ago (People's Repooblik AnnArbor) and requested one of my favourite Pentangle songs, "Light Flight," which was the theme of a BBC TV show called Take Three Girls. She told me, "Honestly we haven't done that song in decades." Sorry silly me.

And for Renbourn's obit, they post a video of the Pentangle reunion concert, just a few weeks before Jansch died, and what's the feature number? Light Flight.

Well, at least they listened. Here it is, if you like that kind of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gCN9-Jnfg

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 04, 2015 09:08 AM (xq1UY)

201 Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 09:03 AM (64tBw)

Atheists always tell me that they can be good people without belief in God. (Charles Cooke said as much on the podcast a few weeks ago.) Sure that's true of individual atheists - although atheists do not seem to realize that they developed their ethics in a society steeped in 2000 years of Christianity. The Greeks and Romans saw nothing wrong with leaving infant girls to die (come to think of it, neither does Obama - the doctor can just leave them on the table grasping for breath.) The idea that the weak and powerless have souls and are loved by God would have been considered utterly ridiculous by them.

Actually, I think that what we are seeing now underscores the thesis that if Judeo-Christianity is pushed out of the public square, people will behave worse, not better. The same people who are sure that they don't need a God to behave decently tend to be the same people who think it's perfectly fine to ruin the lives of a couple in Indiana and a old lady in Washington State for the crime of not thinking correct thoughts. These are the people who will lie and slander in the name of whatever they think is a just cause.

"We can be good without God" - doesn't look that that's playing out too well in real life, does it?

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at April 04, 2015 09:20 AM (+XMAD)

202 Donna &&&&&& V. -

My other retort to atheists is one I take more seriously. After they get all done with their arguments - that life came to be randomly, that intelligence evolved, and that their particular intelligence is superior to mine as evidence by their atheism - I say something like this:

"You seem to have a high opinion of yourself. Yet my opinion of you is higher. You see yourself as an organized pile of atoms. I see you as a child of God, a reflection of His image and nature, and a carrier of something divine."

As for being good without God, you make some great points. Good without God? Maybe. But these people are awash in the arguably secular 7 deadly sins, aren't they? Do they think their evolved minds and enlightened ideas make them immune from the consequences of excessive pride?

Posted by: FireHorse at April 04, 2015 09:45 AM (ldFt4)

203 Cutting the cable:

Over the past dozen years, I've had Time-Warner, DirecTV, and now U-Verse (landline, internet, cable TV). Mrs Mike Golf noted that we no longer watch Fox News, so the things we watch on TV are PBS Masterpiece, some special events (Disney Live and Sing Off come to mind), and football in the fall. We discussed going OTA and are in the process of switching over. Currently, we use Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix. We buy DVD/BluRay disks with digital versions and put those on Vudu.

Picked up a DB4 UHF antenna for $5 (new, open box) at a charity auction. Plenty of cable, ground blocks, splitters to re-use. Out-of-pocket: proper cable tools, bag of F connectors, amplifier from Radio Shack, and a couple of small bags of coax mounting clips. Recycled the sat dish mount for an antenna mast. Took two evenings (stopped working it at sunset).

I am an hour each from Cleve and Youngstown. I get 50+ channels. Once I get a DVR, I'll cut the cable.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at April 04, 2015 11:29 AM (di1hb)

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