MeAgain Kelly's Last Ride

Well, not her last ride -- her last show will be Friday.

But I'm sure Cable's Queen of Drama will review some of her dramatic career for us. She might even have a series of Male Defenders on to explain how right she is about everything.

Posted by: Ace at 08:54 PM

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1 She's on!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (IqV8l)

2 Everyone is a malignant narcissist for 15 mins these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (92kX2)

3 I'm. So. Hawt.

Posted by: MeAgain Kelly at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (Tyii7)

4 I still want to hit that with the force of One Thousand Suns.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (6gk0M)

5 Easy come, easy go.

Posted by: Brit Hume at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (97XyN)

6 Well worth ignoring in the future.

Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (BO/km)

7 This was a mistake on her part, she really isn't that good and she isn't as smart as she thinks she is.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (dKiJG)

8 Septo

Posted by: Jeb! at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (g6yUI)

9 Every morning, I lick myself in the mirror.

Posted by: MeAgain Kelly at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (Tyii7)

10 Is it true that Rush's guest host Buck Sexton called her "Me Again" today?

Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (7qAYi)

11 "Chicken communication is also quite complex, and consists of a large repertoire of different visual displays and at least 24 distinct vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."

Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (BO/km)

12

She won't be able to attend Obama's last party at the White House 'cuz she has to work that night?

Posted by: Harry Lee at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (N7KCY)

13 8 Septo
Posted by: Jeb! at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (g6yUI)

Please clap.

Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (7qAYi)

14
Who?

Posted by: TheSev at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (Av8i6)

15 "This was a mistake on her part, she really isn't that good and she isn't as smart as she thinks she is."
-Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (dKiJG)

Nobody accounts for their deficiencies.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (6gk0M)

16 "Chicken communication is also quite complex, and consists of a large repertoire of different visual displays and at least 24 distinct vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."

I read somewhere that chickens have twenty-two words for black & white shit.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (97XyN)

17 7 This was a mistake on her part, she really isn't that good and she isn't as smart as she thinks she is.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (dKiJG)

Why is it everyone thinks popularity equals skill? It can equal skill. But she is no... someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (92kX2)

18 11 "Chicken communication is also quite complex, and consists of a large repertoire of different visual displays and at least 24 distinct vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (BO/km)

Or announce that they have just made a nice egg, in case any egg-eating predators might be feeling a bit hungry.

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (iMxBJ)

19 another narcissist i'll never see. she will fall flat on her ass.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (KP5rU)

20 She's the living embodiment of Pride goeth before a fall.

She'll be sorry, of that I'm sure.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (+lv+r)

21 Caesar North of the Rubicon is lucky he got willowed in the last thread.

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (sdi6R)

22 I do believe the rumor that she did want the the Press Secretary job for Hillary

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (dKiJG)

23 Is it me or do her tits start at her elbows?

Pretty sure it is not me.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (cOHS7)

24 17 Why is it everyone thinks popularity equals skill? It can equal skill. But she is no... someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (92kX2)

Sharyl Attkisson

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (iMxBJ)

25 Drudge is apparently under attack again

Posted by: Davidc at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (T+XxH)

26 Link to the WaPo article about Barky's next/hopefully last party on the taxpayers' dime:

http://tinyurl.com/gvgwega

Unless they've already taken down the comments. Which happens at WaPo when conservatives show up in the comments

Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 09:03 PM (0E+WY)

27 22 I do believe the rumor that she did want the the Press Secretary job for Hillary
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (dKiJG)

Hmmm, the reason for the Bridgette Nielsen haircut?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:03 PM (92kX2)

28 One more step to over-aged irrelevance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 09:03 PM (u82oZ)

29 is Drudge under attack again or does my Internet just suck?

Posted by: weew at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (6EH85)

30 Why is it everyone thinks popularity equals skill? It can equal skill. But she is no... someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (92kX2)

Sheryl Attkinson, the one Obama hacked her home computer because of Benghazi, she posted a video of it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (dKiJG)

31 Now drudge is locking up for me as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (92kX2)

32 It's not that her small fun bags are saggy, they just start real low. I prefer boobies up higher on the sternum, not at the bottom of them....unless FUN BAGS!!!

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (cOHS7)

33 "another narcissist i'll never see. she will fall flat on her ass."
-Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (KP5rU)

She's not a narcissist. She's just not a conservative. She's a Closet Feminist that exposed its nature during the Primary process.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (6gk0M)

34 What does anyone expect to gain from ddosing drudge?

Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (BO/km)

35 i can't access drudge right now. must be jooooooos.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (KP5rU)

36 Whomever is doing this to drudge, they do realize this only makes him stronger and draw clicks, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (92kX2)

37 Drudge needs better antivirus

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (c6/9Q)

38 Meh, stopped watching them all, especially her, when they became the news instead of providing an unbiased veiw off what was going on. Especially when the 'what was going on' was inside their walled enclosure echo chambers.

Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (OhErQ)

39 21
Caesar North of the Rubicon is lucky he got willowed in the last thread.

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (sdi6R)

Lucky?!?!? Who's going to remember to let him out?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (EzgxV)

40 DRUDGE is under attack. I got a hunski says it is Fredo's doing.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (cOHS7)

41 @ 24 Splunge- Absolutely correct on Sharyl Atkinson. Might help Faux come back from the dark side. Well off to work. See yous guys on the flip side.

Posted by: Eromero at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (zLDYs)

42 Hmmm, maybe it is Drudge himself.

The DDOS is coming from inside the room!!!

*dons free range tinfoil hat*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (92kX2)

43 Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (BO/km)
I don't know about 24 different sounds but most birds make warning noises, danger noises and happy noises.
Roosters make a growling noise when a hawk flies overhead.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (IgBFP)

44 I mentioned in the last thread that I couldn't get to Amazon for a while this afternoon.

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (sdi6R)

45 Russians, gotta be the Russians.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (+lv+r)

46 MeAgain Kelly's Last Ride

Didn't she already tell that story on my show?

Posted by: Howard Stern at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (mt8X9)

47 A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

48 Drudge report not working for me either

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (dKiJG)

49
May her career's passing serve as a warning to any future journos stupid enough to start a war with Trump.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (zu88C)

50 https://tinyurl.com/huw5q8h

Here is Who REALLY Tried To Interfere With US Election HINT It Wasnt Russia

Posted by: Evilpens at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (y3aQB)

51 The drudge thing is weird....Hilary's fans my guess

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (c6/9Q)

52 Know your audience.

How did badmouthing W work out for the Dixie Chics?

How did going to yahoo work out for Katie Couric?

Any word on David Carruso's movie career?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (6n332)

53 25
Drudge is apparently under attack again

Posted by: Davidc at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (T+XxH)

I suspect that it's a DNS resolution attack, not a DDoS. Which means you might or might not be getting the real Drudge when you see it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (EzgxV)

54 37 Drudge needs better antivirus
Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:05 PM (c6/9Q)

DDoS has nothing to do with a virus.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (SRKgf)

55 Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

And then some.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (GUBah)

56 47 A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

No, he's worse

Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (7qAYi)

57

Quick, everyone, go flush your toilet. Remember that stunt? Every toilet on college campus, every building; it would take hours for the water pressure to build up again.

That was so cool.

Posted by: Clifton Fails at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (N7KCY)

58 Anybody remember Deborah Norvell (spell?) she was way hotter and is where???

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (cOHS7)

59 33: who cares. she's just like every other hose bag doing political shit on tv. never liked her.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (KP5rU)

60 "She's not a narcissist. She's just not a conservative. She's a Closet Feminist..."

Maybe we should call her MeGyn.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (VSenK)

61 I suspect that it's a DNS resolution attack, not a DDoS. Which means you might or might not be getting the real Drudge when you see it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (EzgxV)

Interesting point. How can you differentiate between them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (SRKgf)

62 When she is off Fox, we won't have time my all about her anymore, right? None of us watch NBC anyway.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (6IPEM)

63 58 Anybody remember Deborah Norvell (spell?) she was way hotter and is where???
Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (cOHS7)

I think Me agin is hotter, but might be more stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (92kX2)

64 DDoS has nothing to do with a virus.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (SRKgf)

No?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (c6/9Q)

65

2017 is going to be the year of the cyber attack. No one will be safe.

Posted by: Gregory Fastman at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (N7KCY)

66 Incidentally, if it's a DNS resolution attack, you shouldn't even look at the page unless you're running noscript.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (EzgxV)

67 dammit

* won't have to talk about her

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (6IPEM)

68 #17: Sharyl Atkisson has already been mentioned, so I'll say James O'Keeffe.

Oh, and I'm having trouble remembering a name, here, but those people who got Planned Parenthood officials on tape discussing the illegal sale of baby parts. That was some great investigative journalism, too!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (0OG8D)

69 "Chicken communication is also quite complex, and consists of a large repertoire of different visual displays and at least 24 distinct vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."
Posted by: fleeped

That's probably more than the distinct vocalizations made by the men in that feminist "catcall" video. Maybe that woman should consider dating a chicken.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (rH4JY)

70 "Maybe we should call her MeGyn."
-Posted by: Bacon Jeff at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (VSenK)

That has been done and will be done in the future. For good reason.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (6gk0M)

71 I know Caligirl but that article was making chickens sound like some kind of unknown Machiavellian geniuses scratching around the yard.

Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (BO/km)

72 Interesting point. How can you differentiate between them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (SRKgf)

I would put the "DNS resolution attack" probability at .001% ... but I would guess the easiest way to differentiate between that and a DDoS attack would be that you actually get a page pretty regularly.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (zc3Db)

73 someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (92kX2)

==================

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas ...

Posted by: ShainS at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (mt8X9)

74 vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."

Isnt it the same sound?

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (uHXIq)

75 2017 is going to be the year of the cyber attack. No one will be safe.
Posted by: Gregory Fastman at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (N7KCY

I say get antivirus

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (c6/9Q)

76 "Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?"

Alex, I'll take "Self-Answering Questions" for $500, please.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (noWW6)

77 4
I still want to hit that with the force of One Thousand Suns.

How about the heat of a Kuiper Belt Pluto-like planetoid?

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (LAe3v)

78 She fancies herself the next Barbara Walters.

The thing is, when she is good, she is very good, and I appreciate that she interviews folks that others can't or won't. But, when she's bad, she sucks, and right now she mostly has her head up her own ass. She's made the mistake of believing her own PR.

Bill Murray said something once about how when folks become famous they always become assholes, but they've got two years to pull their act together, or forever be an asshole.

She'd better get to work on that. Soon.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (SEXy3)

79 No?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:09 PM (c6/9Q)

DDoS is just an onslaught of page requests which drowns out all the legitimate traffic.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (zc3Db)

80 "someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?"
-Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:00 PM (92kX2)

Catherine Herrige.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (6gk0M)

81
Yeah, I'm getting DNS "not found" errors. It's a DNS attack.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (DW+jj)

82 53 25
Drudge is apparently under attack again

Posted by: Davidc at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (T+XxH)

I suspect that it's a DNS resolution attack, not a DDoS. Which means you might or might not be getting the real Drudge when you see it.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (EzgxV)

I thought the same thing especially with the certificates showing up out of date on Drudge, Breitbart, The Conservative Tree House, Gateway pundit, zero hedge, this site, and just about every right leaning sight since August and getting much worse since election day.

And I'm on a cell phone and did not realize DNS attacks could happen via cell phone .

Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (X/5o4)

83 11 "Chicken communication is also quite complex, and consists of a large repertoire of different visual displays and at least 24 distinct vocalizations which they use to attract a mate, or sound the alarm for danger."
Posted by: fleeped
---------------

"Attract a mate" - is that what you're calling it now?
Believe me, hang around the wrong blog, and you don't have to make a sound.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (wVYbe)

84
I thought the new and improved DNS hosts with new and improved security were designed to prevent an attack like DNS redirection.

Of course, that was a lifetime ago, which is like forever in computer time.

Posted by: Gregory Fastman at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (N7KCY)

85 Sheryl Attkisson ?

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (c6/9Q)

86 Herridge, even.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:13 PM (6gk0M)

87 81 Yeah, I'm getting DNS "not found" errors. It's a DNS attack.
Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (DW+jj)

Did you find the backdoor that was attacked?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:13 PM (iMxBJ)

88 >>"someone give me a name of a great investigative journalist?"

LauraW.

I defy you to find someone with a more intimate knowledge of fowl and the spatchcocking, thereof.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:13 PM (g9txO)

89 I don't think this is a redirect. I get the page sometimes.

Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (BO/km)

90 I finally got Drudge to load.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (dKiJG)

91 My friends, we have nothing to fear with MeAgain Kelli at NBC.

Posted by: John McCain, True Maverick at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (cOHS7)

92 I say get antivirus

Posted by: runner

===

Linux.

Running Windows on the modern internet is like having no-condom sex in a third-world whorehouse based out of a septic tank.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zu88C)

93 DDoS is just an onslaught of page requests which drowns out all the legitimate traffic.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (zc3Db)
Good antivirus can stop that

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (c6/9Q)

94 * raises hand with Tracy Flick like vigor*

I'll be on Megyn's show! I'll be there till the end.

Posted by: Dana Perino at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (X/5o4)

95 Sherryl Attkinson, definitely.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (92kX2)

96 Yeah, I'm getting DNS "not found" errors. It's a DNS attack.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 09:12 PM (DW+jj)

Try changing domain servers. I have no problem getting the page.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zc3Db)

97

ok, now I've lost count.
How many socks/per day to make the honor roll?

Posted by: Angus Dimwhipple at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (N7KCY)

98 She fancies herself the next Barbara Walters
******
More like the next Oprah. She isn't as smart as she thinks she is. I hope Donald Trump never gives her another interview while he is our President. I hope he is very selective about who he will give interviews to. They'll all be hit jobs.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (6IPEM)

99
Bye bye MeAgain. She's off to NBC to collect a fat paycheck and never be seen or heard from again. Well until the next presidential debate and the Republicans okay her to be the moderator

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 09:15 PM (auHtY)

100 Megan came over for a paste brunch and pool party in 2012.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 03, 2017 09:15 PM (cOHS7)

101 61
I suspect that it's a DNS resolution attack, not a DDoS. Which means
you might or might not be getting the real Drudge when you see it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:07 PM (EzgxV)

Interesting point. How can you differentiate between them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (SRKgf)

DDoS -> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/

DNS redirection -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (EzgxV)

102 Running Windows on the modern internet is like having no-condom sex in a third-world whorehouse based out of a septic tank.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zu88C)

Which happens to be named "Man's Country".

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (GUBah)

103 ok, now I've lost count.
How many socks/per day to make the honor roll?

Posted by: Angus Dimwhipple at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (N7KCY)

Think in the 30s.

Posted by: Carlos Mencia at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (92kX2)

104 47 A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

==================

From the preceding thread:

16 One of the nearly innumerable glorious achievements of our most beloved President Of Color is recognizing that global warming and political incorrectness are the greatest threats to the United States and the planet, and it is the mission of America's Navy to protect us from them.

President Obama's personally-vetted and approved Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, embraced this mission whole-heartedly, and has successfully changed course for the Navy and Marine Corps (and all their Corpspersons) away from their traditional mission of deterring potentially hostile navies, or if failing to do that, defeating them.

Secretary Mabus has, through dint of hard work and the nicest sense of personal example, successfully made the Naval services more caring, inclusive, and environmentally sensitive.

All of us here at the Brattleboro Womyn's Clinic are filled with gratitude.

Thank you Secretary Mabus, and President Obama!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at January 03, 2017 07:01 PM (DMUuz)

Posted by: ShainS at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (mt8X9)

105 >>ok, now I've lost count.
How many socks/per day to make the honor roll?

Depends.

Are you washing them?

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (g9txO)

106 'ok, now I've lost count.
How many socks/per day to make the honor roll? '

500,000

Posted by: fleped at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (BO/km)

107 >>She fancies herself the next Barbara Walters

Well, then she has a Modonna of Dicks to suck.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (g9txO)

108 ok, now I've lost count.
How many socks/per day to make the honor roll?
Posted by: Angus Dimwhipple at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM
*****
I thought the wall of shame/honor roll stopped once Maetenloch quit the ONT?

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (6IPEM)

109 What beautiful timing, to go to NBC now. Is she going long on Enron, too?

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (eeTCA)

110 Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 09:10 PM (BO/km)
Drudge is down and I can't read the article. Maybe they're seeing what they want to see. Or it was a government sponsored study.
Really? Chickens smart?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (IgBFP)

111 58 Anybody remember Deborah Norvell (spell?) she was way hotter and is where???
Posted by: Jukin
-----------------

She hosts a knitting/crocheting show on PBS' "create" channel, I know that.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (wVYbe)

112 Sheryl Attkisson, remember CBS tried to bury her story on Bengazi and the Obama administration hacking into her computer, CBS denied that her computer was being hacked until she released a video of what was going on her computer, her files were being deleted right in front of her.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (dKiJG)

113 A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

yes and we all hate his fuckin guts. Well maybe of a few of the gay Sailors don't but even many of them. That Ratings thing was the last straw

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (SjImc)

114 I would not be surprised if our betters were tracking visitors to certain "Fake News sites" and sites which make fun of the institutions labeling "Fake News" and their sites.

Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (X/5o4)

115 DDoS is just an onslaught of page requests which drowns out all the legitimate traffic.

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Often caused by a hack that gives control of millions of innocent users to a master computer that directs all those millions of hacked computers to simultaneously attempt to load the same web page repeatedly. Augmented by the curious who hear a site is under attack and then attempt to load that site to see if the rumor is true, thus making the rumor true.

Posted by: Angus Dimwhipple at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (N7KCY)

116 Interesting point. How can you differentiate between them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (SRKgf)

DDoS -> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/

DNS redirection -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (EzgxV)

I understand the difference between them. I meant how could we as users potentially differentiate between them here?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (SRKgf)

117 I'm booked on MeAgain's first week!!!!

Posted by: Genital Warts at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (cOHS7)

118 >> I would not be surprised if our betters were tracking visitors to certain "Fake News sites" and sites which make fun of the institutions labeling "Fake News" and their sites.

The Pizza Must Flow.

Posted by: John Podesta at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (g9txO)

119 Remember what I said, bitch! Don't go looking for trouble, won't be no trouble. Believe me, I'll cut ya!

Posted by: Lester Holt: Registered Republican at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (qJhUV)

120 DDoS is just an onslaught of page requests which drowns out all the legitimate traffic.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (zc3Db)
Good antivirus can stop that

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (c6/9Q)

DDoS has nothing to do with viruses (other than those used to run a bot-net - but that's ancillary to the attack). The attack, itself, can happen with or without viruses working with it. And it doesn't matter how much anti-virus you put on your machines, there are so many vulnerable devices out that that don't even have anti-virus software for them that creating bot-nets out of them is near impossible to stop (and personal computer anti-virus programs have no effect on them ... since they aren't "computers", in the standard parlance).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (zc3Db)

121 Because if she goes to a daytime show on NBC she can go full GIRRRRL POWER!

Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (cAnNx)

122
108
ok, now I've lost count.

How many socks/per day to make the honor roll?

Posted by: Angus Dimwhipple at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM

*****

I thought the wall of shame/honor roll stopped once Maetenloch quit the ONT?

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (6IPEM)

MisHum has been getting them from Maet.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (EzgxV)

123 109 What beautiful timing, to go to NBC now. Is she going long on Enron, too?
Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (eeTCA)

Yep. Right after she stocks up on Greek bonds with young Mezvinsky (sp?).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (SRKgf)

124 G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (6gk0M)

125
Now the DNS lookup works again, but I'm getting some server side error. Someone is attacking him all right, probably doing several things.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (DW+jj)

126 Linux.

Running Windows on the modern internet is like having no-condom sex in a third-world whorehouse based out of a septic tank.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zu88C)

Sure, maybe after i assemble my own computer from spare computer parts

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)

127 >>MisHum has been getting them from Maet.

Why is Maet stalking us?

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (g9txO)

128 Male chickens have no penis.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 03, 2017 09:21 PM (rH4JY)

129 Looks like Tucker Carlson is WINNING!!

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:21 PM (cOHS7)

130 >>Male chickens have no penis.

Cloaca.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:21 PM (g9txO)

131 116
Interesting point. How can you differentiate between them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (SRKgf)

DDoS -> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/

DNS redirection -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:16 PM (EzgxV)

I understand the difference between them. I meant how could we as users potentially differentiate between them here?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (SRKgf)

DDoS -> page is available or not
DNS hijacking -> page is available, fake, or not available.
If following a link on the page gets you malware, it may be a faked version of the page.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (EzgxV)

132 Charles Manson, the 1960s cult leader who orchestrated a series of high profile murders, was taken to the hospital Tuesday for an undisclosed medical issue, the Los Angeles Times reported.

One of the sources familiar with the situation told the newspaper Manson, 82, was seriously ill, but could not provide specific information.

FOX News

Be a crying shame if he croaked ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (SjImc)

133 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (zc3Db)

I was kidding my friend...

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (c6/9Q)

134 Linux.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zu88C)
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Sure, maybe after i assemble my own computer from spare computer parts
Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)

Which reminds me, I need to finish setting up the new Linux box. Meh, I'll do it tomorrow night.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (GUBah)

135 >>Male chickens have no penis.

-----------------

Koala bears have a bifurcated penis. Talk about a dedicated slot.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (cOHS7)

136 120 DDoS is just an onslaught of page requests which drowns out all the legitimate traffic.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:11 PM (zc3Db)
Good antivirus can stop that

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (c6/9Q)

DDoS has nothing to do with viruses (other than those used to run a bot-net - but that's ancillary to the attack). The attack, itself, can happen with or without viruses working with it. And it doesn't matter how much anti-virus you put on your machines, there are so many vulnerable devices out that that don't even have anti-virus software for them that creating bot-nets out of them is near impossible to stop (and personal computer anti-virus programs have no effect on them ... since they aren't "computers", in the standard parlance).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:19 PM (zc3Db)

DOS attack is basically what that shit head ONT troll was doing for a while. He was being troll busted but he would hit post constantly so it slowed the site down for everyone as it tried to handle his multiple reposts

Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (cAnNx)

137 Sure, maybe after i assemble my own computer from spare computer parts

Posted by: runner
===

It's so easy. And free.

You can even test drive it before installing.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (zu88C)

138 well it says my computer works, myserver for me works but says.
drudgereport.com
Host
Error

Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (R7cwD)

139 "Chickens smart?"

Positively Machiavellian

http://tinyurl.com/hscqzjf

Posted by: fleped at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (BO/km)

140 Be grateful! She had the primo prime time slot and she's fucking GONE. Finally this stupid bitch is gone. The fact she went to NBC is just extra lulz.

Posted by: the extremely deplorable and very racist, sexist, bigotted and homophobic james at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (jxw6R)

141 Male chickens have no penis.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 03, 2017 09:21 PM (rH4JY)

And yet, here you are.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (GUBah)

142 130 Cloaca.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:21 PM (g9txO)

Even Pajama Boy doesn't know the pronouns for that.

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (iMxBJ)

143 I was kidding my friend...

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (c6/9Q)

Oh.

Sorry.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (zc3Db)

144 on my browser it says'website is offline'

Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 09:23 PM (R7cwD)

145 Sheryl Attkisson, remember CBS tried to bury her story on Bengazi and the Obama administration hacking into her computer, CBS denied that her computer was being hacked until she released a video of what was going on her computer, her files were being deleted right in front of her.

***

Her FOIA requests have been denied and she regularly goes on about it on twitter. Last week I replied to tell her to wait another 3 weeks then try again. Copied Sessions on it.

It will be interesting to find out what really happened.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 09:24 PM (SEXy3)

146

Running linux by downloading some software from some unknown site run by unknown people is like asking for someone to install a back door on your computer.

If you can't trust the dot 'ru' domain, who can you trust?

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:24 PM (N7KCY)

147 113 A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today makes him sound?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

yes and we all hate his fuckin guts. Well maybe of a few of the gay Sailors don't but even many of them. That Ratings thing was the last straw
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:18 PM (SjImc)

Awww... come on...

I'm sure the crew of the LCS USS Gabby Gifford love him...

After all, stationed on a ship that can't fight, or sail... and is named for someone whose claim to fame is being a Brain Damaged VICTIM...

Is the Dream of every American Fighting Sailor!

Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 09:24 PM (qf6WZ)

148 Why is Maet stalking us?
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (g9txO)

He just can't quit us?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 09:24 PM (92kX2)

149 Best replacements for Megyn: Shannon Bream, Trish Regan, or Martha MacCallum. Maybe Kim G.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (SEXy3)

150 134
Linux.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:14 PM (zu88C)

---

Sure, maybe after i assemble my own computer from spare computer parts

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (c6/9Q)

Which reminds me, I need to finish setting up the new Linux box. Meh, I'll do it tomorrow night.

Posted by: Country Singer (Gab @Bert G) at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (GUBah)

Which distro are you going with?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (EzgxV)

151 It's so easy. And free.

You can even test drive it before installing.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (zu88C)
No such thing as bullet proof op system

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (c6/9Q)

152 The real question is why Obama wants to suppress this chicken story.

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (iMxBJ)

153

with MeAgain gone, who will defend teh wimmenz from Trumpzilla ?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (zu88C)

154 Of course Tucker is winning. He's younger and prettier.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (ROIz5)

155 He's back up now, looks like.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (DW+jj)

156 No such thing as bullet proof op system

Posted by: runner
==

Nope.

But Windows proves there's still a market for a bullet-riddled op system.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:27 PM (zu88C)

157 Of course Tucker is winning. He's younger and prettier.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (ROIz5)

--------------------
And smarter.....but you have to buy him more drinks to do butt stuff.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2017 09:27 PM (cOHS7)

158 146

Running linux by downloading some software from some unknown site
run by unknown people is like asking for someone to install a back door
on your computer.

If you can't trust the dot 'ru' domain, who can you trust?

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:24 PM (N7KCY)

There's a protocol you go through that validates the downloaded disk image. Unfortunately, the protocol is much easier to do in Linux than either Windows or Apple.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:27 PM (EzgxV)

159 Running linux by downloading some software from some
unknown site run by unknown people is like asking for someone to
install a back door on your computer.

If you can't trust the dot 'ru' domain, who can you trust?

Posted by: Dillatory Agent

===

Right.

Please. Do go on.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:27 PM (zu88C)

160 Why is Maet stalking us?
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:20 PM (g9txO)
*****
I like to think that it means he'll come back eventually. He still remains the owner of the AoS yahoo group too.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 03, 2017 09:27 PM (6IPEM)

161 I will not perform at Mr. Trump's inaugural. No. I will. Not. Do it.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (97XyN)

162 But Windows proves there's still a market for a bullet-riddled op system.

-------------------------------------

As long as it has a sexy graphical user interface and you can play angry birds on all your devices, and send instant messages to all of your online friends, what more do you need?

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (N7KCY)

163 Bet she'll be at Obama's WH so-long on Friday, and then NOT be at the Inaug in any other role than to criticize from a studio chair.

So glad we don't have cable any more.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (U6f54)

164 Drudge is back up

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (l0TQe)

165 Best replacements for Megyn: Shannon Bream, Trish Regan, or Martha MacCallum. Maybe Kim G.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (SEXy3)

Sandra Smith

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (auHtY)

166 (He's back up now, looks like. )

With a story asbout drudge report being hacked at top

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:29 PM (c6/9Q)

167 I saw breasts mentioned in a post above, so I'll ask this here.

Are Ivanka's natural?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (U6f54)

168 There's a protocol you go through that validates the downloaded disk image. Unfortunately, the protocol is much easier to do in Linux than either Windows or Apple.
---------------------

validating the check sum doesn't protect you from back door access hidden in the code.

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (N7KCY)

169 willowed: "Cosell", the book.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (reARY)

170 Re: Manus brought sodomy back to the Navy. He's a traditionalist.

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (Q1UO3)

171 Sandra Smith

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 09:28 PM (auHtY)

World's greatest eyes.

I still prefer Shannon Bream (if I watched Fox) but either would be a major move up from Megywyhn.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (zc3Db)

172 Male Defenders on to explain how right she is about everything.

Posted by: Ace at 08:54 PM
------------

Steve Martin was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (ZO497)

173 151
It's so easy. And free.

You can even test drive it before installing.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (zu88C)

No such thing as bullet proof op system

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:25 PM (c6/9Q)

Linux can be close. However, nearly all the popular distros are not shipped as secure as they should be. Ubuntu, for example, has a firewall in the standard distribution....which the user must explicitly turn on.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:31 PM (EzgxV)

174
*shrug*

What operating system do most computer security professionals, who are concerned about privacy and security for a living, use to do their jobs? And why?

And if you are downloading Linux from a .ru server?

You deserve what you get.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:31 PM (zu88C)

175 Blue Jackets just won their 16th straight game.

Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 09:31 PM (g9txO)

176
I'm voting for Martha MacCallum to replace MeAgain.

Or move Tucker up, and give Kennedy the 7PM slot.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 03, 2017 09:32 PM (DW+jj)

177 Oh, man... I've watched that "Hall and Oates shred Maneater" video (posted in the sidebar) several times, now, and it just gets funnier every time! The off-key sounds just match up with the video so perfectly, and a new hilarious detail jumps out with each viewing.

That is some quality YooToob!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (0OG8D)

178 132
One of the sources familiar with the situation told the newspaper Manson, 82, was seriously ill, but could not provide specific information.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (SjImc)/i]

Charles Manson is the same age as my father when he died?

Geez. Time flies.

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (sdi6R)

179

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (sdi6R)

180 Barrel, I spit at thee!

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (sdi6R)

181 validating the check sum doesn't protect you from back door access hidden in the code.

Posted by: Dillatory Agent
==

Wow. It's like Pizzagate but with computers.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (zu88C)

182 And if you are downloading Linux from a .ru server?

---

Do you really know where your dot com domains are, or from whence they get their code?

Sure you can do a whois, but do you know who the registered owner of the domain is?

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:34 PM (N7KCY)

183 You can even test drive it before installing.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:22 PM (zu88C)

It's best, so far as I'm concerned, to always run linux from a flash drive. I haven't loaded linux onto a hard drive in years. All my linux "installations" are uninstalled, as it were. The ease of use and flexibility is unmatched.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:34 PM (zc3Db)

184 At least two sailors and four Marines, along with Japanese citizens, rescued two boys from a deadly Yokosuka car crash New Years Eve.

The troops were the first to arrive on the scene after a car plummeted from the 5th story of a parking garage outside Yokosuka Naval Base, killing three of the occupants and injuring two children, ages 11 and 16, according to a Stars & Stripes Report. Three other passengers were killed.

Navy officials confirmed that four Marines from a fast-response team and a sailor assigned to the destroyer McCampbell assisted in the rescue. Another sailor, identified by Stripes as First Class Petty Officer Garrett Osborne, assisted in the rescue as well.

Out of the corner of my eye I see this big object coming out of a building, and sure enough its an SUV flying out backward from this parking garage, Osborne, assigned to the Navy Munitions Command, said. At this point, its all going in slow motion, and I dont believe my eyes. Its almost something you see in a movie.

The service members assisted in freeing the boys and flipping the overturned car over but allowed local emergency services to render medical aid.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:34 PM (SjImc)

185 They should wait for Japan to invent the first virtual AI news anchor.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 03, 2017 09:34 PM (rH4JY)

186 168
There's a protocol you go through that validates the downloaded disk
image. Unfortunately, the protocol is much easier to do in Linux than
either Windows or Apple.

---------------------

validating the check sum doesn't protect you from back door access hidden in the code.

Posted by: Dillatory Agent at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (N7KCY)

That's where you have to hope the distro's development team is on the ball. But there are a lot of eyes keeping track of a lot of things in the Linux world, and it'd take an awfully big conspiracy to for it to be silently subverted.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:35 PM (EzgxV)

187 Big & Rich to play the Inauguration. Should live up the parade.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 03, 2017 09:35 PM (Kucy5)

188 Firewalls....sigh

Posted by: runner at January 03, 2017 09:37 PM (c6/9Q)

189 No such thing as bullet proof op system

Posted by: runner
------------

And yet, my Tandy M100 has never had a problem.

As an aside, Every OS Sucks: http://tinyurl.com/aod4ddx

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 03, 2017 09:37 PM (ZO497)

190 #167: It's been a while since I got a good look at them (she did a fairly racy photospread or two for Maxim and/or Stuff like ten or fifteen years ago), but my instinct is to guess that they're probably real.

Otherwise, unless I'm mistaken, they wouldn't be kosher.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 09:37 PM (0OG8D)

191 A security researcher at the MacKeeper Security Research Center has revealed a Pentagon subcontractor exposed sensitive U.S. military health care personnel data thanks to an insecure server backup protocol.

Ain't that just charming

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:37 PM (SjImc)

192
That's where you have to hope the distro's development team is on the ball. But there are a lot of eyes keeping track of a lot of things in the Linux world, and it'd take an awfully big conspiracy to for it to be silently subverted.

-----------------------------
That is actually what I think. There are so many people downloading the bits, that if someone were getting hacked because of it, enough people would know about it to get it stopped.

So I'm putting my trust in those unknown somebodies out there in the cloud.

Posted by: Gaylun Madras at January 03, 2017 09:38 PM (N7KCY)

193 CloudFlare is saying Drudge's server is offline.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:38 PM (EzgxV)

194 She was acting!

Brilliant! Baudelaire!

Posted by: Mr Thespian at January 03, 2017 09:38 PM (U0lQa)

195 47
A question for this Smart Military Blog. Is the current Secretary of the
Navy, Mabus, as much of a douchenozzle as this one article I saw today
makes him sound?

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:06 PM (iMxBJ)

Yes. He visited us in Afghanistan. Then sat like an asshole at the custom breakfast line, chatting aware, unaware that there was a line of young Marines and sailors, waiting patiently to order an omelette so they could go and do their mission for the day. It is a long story, but I left him with no doubt as to my feelings and that went to the Commanding General. I had a good laugh with the Sergeant Major at dinner that night.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at January 03, 2017 09:40 PM (7N6ox)

196 I still prefer Shannon Bream (if I watched Fox) but either would be a major move up from Megywyhn.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 09:30 PM (zc3Db)

Another personal favorite is Heather Nauert.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 09:40 PM (auHtY)

197 CloudFlare is saying Drudge's server is offline.

------------------------

It was an inside job; somebody working for Drudge fell for a spearphishing attack.

Or someone forgot to close some html format tags.

Posted by: Gaylun Madras at January 03, 2017 09:41 PM (N7KCY)

198 184
At least two sailors and four Marines, along with Japanese citizens,
rescued two boys from a deadly Yokosuka car crash New Years Eve.

The troops were the first to arrive on the scene after a car
plummeted from the 5th story of a parking garage outside Yokosuka Naval
Base, killing three of the occupants and injuring two children, ages 11
and 16, according to a Stars Stripes Report. Three other
passengers were killed.

Navy officials confirmed that four Marines from a fast-response team
and a sailor assigned to the destroyer McCampbell assisted in the
rescue. Another sailor, identified by Stripes as First Class Petty
Officer Garrett Osborne, assisted in the rescue as well.

Out of the corner of my eye I see this big object coming out of a
building, and sure enough its an SUV flying out backward from this
parking garage, Osborne, assigned to the Navy Munitions Command, said.
At this point, its all going in slow motion, and I dont believe my eyes.
Its almost something you see in a movie.

The service members assisted in freeing the boys and flipping the
overturned car over but allowed local emergency services to render
medical aid.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 09:34 PM (SjImc)

Wow! Semper Fidelis boys!

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at January 03, 2017 09:42 PM (7N6ox)

199 1.Sandra Smith
2.Shannon Bream ahhhh.
Martha MacCallum, can't hear her through that scratchy voice.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 09:42 PM (reARY)

200 Finally got Drudge. No stories about chickens. One story about "Semen syringe" that I'm really sorry I clicked on, except for the part about "yeah, that looks like just the kind of dude who would have done something like that." Always good to confirm your worldview.

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:42 PM (iMxBJ)

201 195 Yes. He visited us in Afghanistan. Then sat like an asshole at the custom breakfast line, chatting aware, unaware that there was a line of young Marines and sailors, waiting patiently to order an omelette so they could go and do their mission for the day. It is a long story, but I left him with no doubt as to my feelings and that went to the Commanding General. I had a good laugh with the Sergeant Major at dinner that night.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at January 03, 2017 09:40 PM (7N6ox)

Wow. If you ever feel like telling the long version of that story, I think you'd have a lot of ears here, mine certainly among them.

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:44 PM (iMxBJ)

202
It was an inside job; somebody working for Drudge fell for a spearphishing attack.

Or someone forgot to close some html format tags.
Posted by: Gaylun Madras

Does Drudge have a barrel?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 09:44 PM (IqV8l)

203 Good for you, son of Grand Fenwick.

Garbage Scows are too useful and proud to be named the IX 919 Mabus.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 09:45 PM (u82oZ)

204 Well.... Bye!

Posted by: Curly Brosius at January 03, 2017 09:45 PM (Ya7zs)

205 *cough*

http://tinyurl.com/gt9xuzl

How Microsoft Is Trying to Calm Fears About Spy 'Back Doors' in Its Code

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:48 PM (zu88C)

206 Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:33 PM (sdi6R)

A song for your high-wire barrel taunting.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jgpwwwb

Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:48 PM (iMxBJ)

207 when i saw meagains last ride, i thought this was going to be a porn thread. i also thought i would find out who she was going to ride. shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 09:49 PM (KP5rU)

208
Whois eproof.com, and do I have to run the script to get the full drudge experience?

The others I know are advertiser scripts.

Posted by: Wandering William Cowshanks at January 03, 2017 09:49 PM (N7KCY)

209
The
effort to build trust follows heightened suspicions in the region after
former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked
documents in 2013 that showed the agency was capturing massive amounts of data from emails handled by major U.S. technology companies, including Microsoft.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:49 PM (zu88C)

210 Does Drudge have a barrel?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 09:44 PM (IqV8l)

Yes. And it reeks of sweaty gefilte fish.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 03, 2017 09:50 PM (uHXIq)

211 I shouldn't be surprised if the leftard geeks who have access to the inner workings of the internet were to wreak some havoc on their opposition to avenge the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua and the Fall of the Left...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 03, 2017 09:50 PM (kP16F)

212 The leak, in addition to another Snowden disclosure that the United States had been spying on communications including those of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, prompted Brazil and other governments around the world to reconsider how much they could trust U.S. technology companies not to install back doors at the request of U.S. intelligence agencies.

Yeah.

Linux.

Scary.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:52 PM (zu88C)

213 Traffic from the Drudge Report is gigantic. Similar Web estimated it saw 178 million visits in November and that almost 80 percent of that traffic was direct. In other words, rather than clicking over from Facebook or finding it in search, visitors typed the URL directly into their browser or they have it set as the page their browser opens upon launch.

http://observer.com/2017/01/ddos-
drudge-report-cloudflare-protonmail/

++++

The media is hopelessly retarded. Can it be that the dumbfuck who wrote this piece is unaware of browser bookmarks/favorites? I'll bet that the majority of readers who went directly to Drudge did NOT type the address in manually, nor do they have Drudge set as their home page. Instead, they just clicked their bookmark.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (R+30W)

214 The sponsor of the chickens are Mensa candidates study is anti agriculture.
They compare the intelligence of chickens to seven year old children.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (IgBFP)

215 I don't get the humor in the SHREDS videos.

YMMV.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (R5EqA)

216 #207: Whomever she ends up riding, you can rest assured that I'll be there to watch.

Posted by: Brian Williams at January 03, 2017 09:54 PM (0OG8D)

217 Actually the funniest SHREDS video is of the band Phish.

"Somebody at my Fractal"

Hilarious.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 03, 2017 09:54 PM (+lv+r)

218 Finally got Drudge. No stories about chickens. One story about "Semen syringe" that I'm really sorry I clicked on, except for the part about "yeah, that looks like just the kind of dude who would have done something like that." Always good to confirm your worldview.

Posted by: Splunge

Most social disorders exist because of lack of education. Maybe he's just never been introduced to the turkey baster.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 03, 2017 09:54 PM (rH4JY)

219 205
*cough*

http://tinyurl.com/gt9xuzl

How Microsoft Is Trying to Calm Fears About Spy 'Back Doors' in Its Code

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:48 PM (zu88C)

Well, duh -- these are the guys who were doing a presentation at a security confab and had "NSA_Key" declared as a constant on one of their slides.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:54 PM (EzgxV)

220 But I'm sure Cable's Queen of Drama will review some of her dramatic career for us.
---
She's going to do a clip show?

Awesome.

Posted by: Xena, Warrior Princess at January 03, 2017 09:55 PM (3Liv/)

221
My internet sessions are so predictable that my browser history pops up the correct url for all my favorite sites. All I have to do is type the first letter of the domain name in the address bar and hit 'return'.

Easier than trying to find my book marks which have moved since the last time I used Firefox.

Posted by: Wandering William Cowshanks at January 03, 2017 09:55 PM (N7KCY)

222 208

Whois eproof.com, and do I have to run the script to get the full drudge experience?

The others I know are advertiser scripts.

Posted by: Wandering William Cowshanks at January 03, 2017 09:49 PM (N7KCY)

I run Drudge with no scripts allowed at all.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:55 PM (EzgxV)

223 215 I don't get the humor in the SHREDS videos.

YMMV.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (R5EqA)

++++

They take a hit song and edit it to sound stupidly awful.

Personally, any joke that requires me to sit there and listen to bad music is not my kind of humor.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 09:56 PM (R+30W)

224 Yoo hoo! ONT

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 03, 2017 09:57 PM (rH4JY)

225 had "NSA_Key" declared as a constant on one of their slides
===

Yeah, the US Gov pretty much owned them after the IE lawsuit.

Gotta eat, ya know?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:58 PM (zu88C)

226
I run Drudge with no scripts allowed at all.

Posted by: cthulhu

==

Seconded.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:58 PM (zu88C)

227 I run Drudge with no scripts allowed at all.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 09:55 PM (EzgxV)

++++

Yeah, I don't even allow Drudge's own script to run. I forget what it is, but he does something annoying that made me turn it off. Might have been auto-refresh.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 09:59 PM (R+30W)

228 187 Big & Rich to play the Inauguration. Should live up the parade.
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 03, 2017 09:35 PM (Kucy5)

Shouldn't that be Yuge & Rich?

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 09:59 PM (sdi6R)

229 Yeah, the US Gov pretty much owned them after the IE lawsuit.

Gotta eat, ya know?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 09:58 PM (zu88C)

That lawsuit was one of the biggest travesties, ever. It was totally insane. Microsoft - the OS and the browser - had serious FREE competition (not to mention all the other commercial competition available) and the US government managed to call them a "monopoly". It was unreal. That suit might have even been worse than the bullshit tobacco suit - which was nothing but a straight-up extortion deal.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 10:00 PM (zc3Db)

230 214 The sponsor of the chickens are Mensa candidates study is anti agriculture.
They compare the intelligence of chickens to seven year old children.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 09:53 PM (IgBFP)

Hillary supporters?

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 03, 2017 10:01 PM (uHXIq)

231 "Megyn Kelly's Last Ride."

Couple things here ace..

1. That would be a great title for a..um... motion picture?

2. and lucky SOB.. or daughter.. maybe she dabbles who knows.

I remember when the right (myself included) drooled over this chick. Going from that to her stupid drama queen feud with Trump was like seeing a Brazilian woman from behind and then she turns around.. face make Ray Charles flinch.

Posted by: groovemetal at January 03, 2017 10:05 PM (MIwBq)

232 They take a hit song and edit it to sound stupidly awful.

Personally, any joke that requires me to sit there and listen to bad music is not my kind of humor.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 09:56 PM (R+30W)

[does that eye-to-eye finger sweep move]

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 03, 2017 10:06 PM (R5EqA)

233 229
That lawsuit was one of the biggest travesties, ever. It was totally insane. Microsoft - the OS and the browser - had serious FREE competition (not to mention all the other commercial competition available) and the US government managed to call them a "monopoly". It was unreal. That suit might have even been worse than the bullshit tobacco suit - which was nothing but a straight-up extortion deal.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 10:00 PM (zc3Db)

Bill Gates could have gone Galt then, but he apparently decided that partnering with the government was easier and more lucrative.

Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 10:06 PM (sdi6R)

234 #215: Perhaps seeing a slightly more... pretentious band get this treatment would help? Here's one of ABBA...

https://youtu.be/Bne3uCHS-Bw

Posted by: Brian Williams at January 03, 2017 10:07 PM (0OG8D)

235 203
Good for you, son of Grand Fenwick.

Garbage Scows are too useful and proud to be named the IX 919 Mabus.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 09:45 PM (u82oZ)

With a flourish!
It is how you treat the "lesser" mortals. Treat waitresses, junior Marines, whomever, with respect. If they foul it up, then you let them know, but if you are respectful, it gets corrected. Mabus, is the perfect example of a jackass, like Hillary, who does not care about the little guy. He did not care that there were hungry troops in line. He ordered his omelette then stood there bullshitting with the Navy LCDR he traveled with so that the cooks could not get more orders and get more people fed. Fortunately, I was a Master Gunnery Sergeant (E-9), my deployment was nearly finished, our sister battalion had finished all the relief tasks, and all I had to do was confirm the baggage load out and ensure the flight manifests were good. I was also ready to drop my retirement papers. I was able to ask him, less than subtly, to egress the order point and move towards the pick up point.He mentioned to the Commanding General that a senior Marine (my last name included) needed to work on my tact. That got the Sergeant Major laughing. He invited me to dinner with my battalion Sergeant Major, meaning I got to sit at his table, and we had a quick chat on being appropriately respectful.
Tact is just another four letter word.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at January 03, 2017 10:07 PM (7N6ox)

236 Ben Shapiro is probably free for the show.

Posted by: Thomas M. at January 03, 2017 10:08 PM (gIIXS)

237 Off, fabulist incestuo-voyeuristic pseudo-journalist sock!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 10:09 PM (0OG8D)

238
Bill Gates could have gone Galt then, but he apparently decided that partnering with the government was easier and more lucrative.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 10:06 PM (sdi6R)

IIRC, Mitch McConnell was one of the guys pushing it, just to get MS to in the game with that sweet, sweet lobbying cash. Before that, they didn't even consider needing a lobbying shop. Afterwards they had one of the largest presences on K street.

He basically told them "you're either at the table, or on it. You need to learn how the game is played".

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 03, 2017 10:10 PM (R5EqA)

239 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 10:00 PM (zc3Db)

I beg to differ sir. The McDonalds coffee incident remains as one of the most embarrassing (for our culture that is) lawsuits ever.

I believe that sparked all the other totally asinine things manufacturers had to inform customers of; like how to open a cheese single. God I hope this is just a minor valley in our humanity curve. I also believe that incident was very close to the time of the infamous "Walmart parking lot spanking" that sparked the birth of a completely delusional and entitled generation.

Posted by: groovemetal at January 03, 2017 10:14 PM (MIwBq)

240 #239: I'm gonna have to disagree with you, here. Stella did actually have a legitimate case.

Sure, you expect coffee to be hot, but not that hot. That McDonald's had been warned several times by the local health department that their coffee was just too damned hot.

An old lady bought a cup of coffee from their drive-up window, and got third-degree burns on her genitals from it. Third-degree! And that's a really soft part of the body... did you know it can actually be melted by extreme heat? Because that's what happened to that poor old lady.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 10:20 PM (0OG8D)

241 I beg to differ sir. The McDonalds coffee incident remains as one of the most embarrassing (for our culture that is) lawsuits ever.

***

No. It wasn't. The coffee was literally boiling in the cup. Originally, all she asked for was a small sum to help with the medical bills. They denied her. She had to have skin grafts to repair the damage to her legs and groin. She went back and asked again. They denied her again. THEN she amped it up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 10:20 PM (SEXy3)

242 The Mouse that Roared

Thanks for "The rest of the story."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 10:22 PM (u82oZ)

243 No. It wasn't. The coffee was literally boiling in the cup. Originally, all she asked for was a small sum to help with the medical bills. They denied her. She had to have skin grafts to repair the damage to her legs and groin. She went back and asked again. They denied her again. THEN she amped it up.

****

And, BTW, tat was after McDs had been warned repeatedly of the dangers of their coffee policy, both by the health dept, their own QA dept, and several other injury claims.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 10:25 PM (SEXy3)

244 Shit. Did we kill the thread, NDH?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 10:33 PM (0OG8D)

245 243 No. It wasn't. The coffee was literally boiling in the cup. Originally, all she asked for was a small sum to help with the medical bills. They denied her. She had to have skin grafts to repair the damage to her legs and groin. She went back and asked again. They denied her again. THEN she amped it up.

Wrong. Coffee boils at 220 degrees. This coffee was 180-190, the industry standard for brewing coffee. The old lady put the cup between her knees and smashed the cup into her lap while removing the lid. McDonalds coffee is still brewed at 180-190 degrees to this very day.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 03, 2017 10:37 PM (uHXIq)

246 ONT has been up for about 45 minutes.

Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 10:37 PM (cAnNx)

247 #245: "Hot enough to melt a woman's vulva" is not the industry standard, Cicero. That McDonald's had been warned several times by their local health department that they were serving their coffee too hot.

If any company's coffee would get the "industry standard" badge for coffee preparation and service, I'd say it's Starbuck's.

Have they ever been sued for giving someone third-degree, genital-melting burns? I don't believe they have.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 10:48 PM (0OG8D)

248 Sheryl Attkisson, remember CBS tried to bury her
story on Bengazi and the Obama administration hacking into her computer,
CBS denied that her computer was being hacked until she released a
video of what was going on her computer, her files were being deleted
right in front of her.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 09:17 PM (dKiJG)

I had completely forgot about that.... holy SHIT.Yet this admin is willing to poke the bear over "election hacking."
With each passing minute, I am more and more thrilled to have these piece of rubbish removed from our White House.

Video of an actual hack (VIDEO!!) but when they lose badly in an election well then the Russians did it and no We're not briefing Congress.
FUCK THIS WHOLE GODDAMNED ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: groovemetal at January 03, 2017 10:50 PM (MIwBq)

249 No. It wasn't. The coffee was literally boiling in
the cup. Originally, all she asked for was a small sum to help with the
medical bills. They denied her. She had to have skin grafts to repair
the damage to her legs and groin. She went back and asked again. They
denied her again. THEN she amped it up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 10:20 PM (SEXy3)

Yeah but... but who... dude.. WHO opens coffee in their LAP??
Wow.. blast from the past that was.. Pretty sure i said the same thing back then. IMO, the woman was retarded. Coffee is hot. Yup, sometimes youll get a cup that didn't even come out of the pot. They will put the cup right under the drip. Then its screaming hot.
But none of that matters because in the same way I don't try to do taxes while I drive, I don't put a hot beverage in a flimsy-ass Styrofoam cup on my bag while I'm driving, or at all really.

Posted by: groovemetal at January 03, 2017 10:58 PM (MIwBq)

250 No. It wasn't. The coffee was literally boiling in the cup.

Not even close. Read the case.

Originally, all she asked for was a small sum to help with the medical bills. They denied her.

As they should have. It was her fault. All of it. HER stupidity (and her grandson's, who was driving the car). What sort of an idiot puts a friggin styrofoam cup in between her legs and takes the cap off (likely while the car was moving, though the liars deny that)?

She had to have skin grafts to repair the damage to her legs and groin. She went back and asked again. They denied her again. THEN she amped it up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 03, 2017 10:20 PM (SEXy3)

Poor grannie. She messed up and she wanted someone else to pay for her idiocy. She's just lucky that our judicial system is a joke and that we have insane juries and judges who aren't qualified to sit on anything but a park bench.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 10:58 PM (zc3Db)

251 Starbuck's coffee won't melt your pee-pee. Nor will McDonald's coffee, under most circumstances. But that particular McDonald's ignored multiple warnings from the local health department and from McDonald's corporate HQ that they were serving their coffee too hot.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:02 PM (0OG8D)

252 That particular McDonald's was liable for Stella's horrifying injuries.

So, too, was the corporation, for not yanking that franchise's license after those repeated warnings.

It is not normal to end up with melted genitals from spilling coffee in your lap.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:09 PM (0OG8D)

253 Starbuck's coffee won't melt your pee-pee. Nor will McDonald's coffee, under most circumstances. But that particular McDonald's ignored multiple warnings from the local health department and from McDonald's corporate HQ that they were serving their coffee too hot.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:02 PM (0OG8D)

Good coffee should be delivered piping hot - especially good takeout coffee. Your cheap home drip machine probably makes it around 165° ... and that's not hot enough to serve commercial takeout. The McD's coffee in question was less than 20° hotter than that. It was, in a word, "perfect". Sure, there were a bunch of twerps who like lukewarm coffee who complained. Shit, I wash my hands in 120° water.

You should not be able to just start chugging coffee. It should be too hot to sip so that you can let it get to the temperature that you like - and so that it doesn't go cold and worthless while you're still drinking it.

The minute the old bitty put the styrofoam cup in between her legs and took the cap off was the minute she assumed full responsibility for everything. You would think that someone who managed to live to 80 would have learned that little factoid at some earlier point.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 11:11 PM (zc3Db)

254 It is not normal to end up with melted genitals from spilling coffee in your lap.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:09 PM (0OG8D)

Her genitalia problems have nothing to do with this. The coffee was between 180° and 185° and that is a perfect temperature for takeout coffee ... for any coffee being served commercially.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 11:13 PM (zc3Db)

255 Then why did both the local health department and McDonald's corporate HQ warn that McDonald's franchise that they were serving their coffee too hot?

If serving coffee that's hot enough to give you Ken-doll genitals from the sort of simple spill that happens every day is normal, why hasn't every company that serves coffee faced a similar lawsuit?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:21 PM (0OG8D)

256 Why has Congress never called for restaurants to start serving takeout coffee at a cooler temperature, for that matter?

Because Stella Lubick's case was unusual. That one place served its coffee too hot.

If everyone served coffee that hot, there would've been congressional hearings about it.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:27 PM (0OG8D)

257 If serving coffee that's hot enough to give you Ken-doll genitals from the sort of simple spill that happens every day is normal,

Uh ... you're talking about an 80 year old, here. What would cause problems for an 80 year old (or I think she was only 79 at the time) is not the same as what would cause problems for a normal person. Old people can get nasty bruises just from being rubbed up against. That doesn't mean that anything that gives an 80 year old nasty bruises would have done the same with a normal, middle-aged person.

Second of all, she opened the coffee cup IN BETWEEN HER LEGS - a styrofoam cup, at that (which aren't the sturdiest cups for keeping their shape with the cap off). You seem to continue to omit this detail as if it isn't the basis of the whole situation. It is. And, as I said earlier, the car was likely moving. They had just left the drive-thru and were not parked. They claim they weren't moving but most cars don't stop right after they exit the drive-thru.

For doing these incredibly stupid things it was her fault. Totally and completely. Or are you of the mind that coffee can only be served if it's cool enough to throw in someone's face without causing any problems? People generally know that coffee is HOT when they buy it. That's half the reason they're buying it. And sensible people don't put cups of HOT coffee in between their legs in a car and take the cap off.

why hasn't every company that serves coffee faced a similar lawsuit?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:21 PM (0OG8D)

Because most people aren't despicable leeches and extortionists like this granny and her lawyer. And most people know that when they buy hot coffee ... it's HOT.

Like I said, 180°-185°. That is the fact of the case. Make yourself some coffee at that temperature and see if you think it's killer coffee. Those are the numbers. Check it out for yourself.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 11:30 PM (zc3Db)

258 #257: No matter how old you are, the melting point of human fat does not change. It's the same substance, whether you're 20 or 80.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:34 PM (0OG8D)

259 Yes, bones and blood vessels do get more brittle as you age. But the impact of heat on fatty tissue does not.

Bacon made from an eight-year old pig does not fry faster than bacon made from a two-year-old pig.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:46 PM (0OG8D)

260 Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:46 PM (0OG8D)

What are you trying to argue? I gave you the temperature of the coffee. Do you dispute that?

Look, if this old bitty went to a steak house and got a steak on a hot plate and, then, because she a retarded spaz tried to pick the plate up for some unknown reason and dropped it on her lap, thereby burning her and melting her ancient genitals, do you think the restaurant is responsible for that? Would you be calling for all steak houses to immediately stop serving steaks on hot plates? Why aren't there tons of cases against these steak houses? Those plates are often much hotter than the McD's coffee was.

I really don't understand what you're driving at? You don't think that people should be trusted with hot things and you want everything to be served at a temperature cool enough so that if the dumbest of people splashes whatever it is all over their face they won't be harmed?

I like hot coffee. I have a right to be served hot coffee even though there are idiots who will screw things up with hot coffee and hurt themselves and others. You seem to disagree. I really don't get your view on this. People who can't handle hot things shouldn't be ordering coffee. People who are spazzes shouldn't be getting steaks served on super hot plates. But the rest of us have a right to purchase and be served these things, without the proprietor having to worry about spazzes with lawyers and retarded juries.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 11:58 PM (zc3Db)

261 And are the styrofoam cups from McDonald's that much worse at holding their shape when held between your legs than the paper cups used by Starbuck's? I don't believe there's that much of a difference.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:59 PM (0OG8D)

262 #260: You said that everyone serves coffee that hot, that it's the industry standard. I'm arguing that that couldn't possibly be the case, since both McDonald's corporate HQ and the local health department had warned that McDonald's franchise that they were serving their coffee too hot.

Why would they have done that, if it was normal?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:03 AM (0OG8D)

263 And are the styrofoam cups from McDonald's that much worse at holding their shape when held between your legs than the paper cups used by Starbuck's? I don't believe there's that much of a difference.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 03, 2017 11:59 PM (0OG8D)

That's been my experience with styrofoam. But it doesn't matter, you just do not put a cup of hot liquid in between your legs in a car and take the lid off. That's beyond stupid, really, and is the only reason that anything happened. It wasn't the case that the McD's hadn't secured the lid or anything of the sort. It was the old lady doing this very stupid thing that any reasonable person would say makes her assume full responsibility for whatever happened.

Styrofoam or paper, everyone knows that the lid holds the cup in shape. The minute you take the lid off the cup starts squishing together and liquid is likely to start pouring over the edge. To do this in car, with pressure exerted by your thighs on the cup, while the car is likely moving, taking the cap off, while you're an 80 year old who isn't all that mobile .... I mean, shit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 04, 2017 12:07 AM (zc3Db)

264 Why would they have done that, if it was normal?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:03 AM (0OG8D)

Their coffee consultant recommended that temperature, since it is the best for serving coffee and maintaining the taste.

You can always let your coffee cool down to your liking (and usually with takeout it's going to cool down before one gets to where they're going, anyway) but you can't make your coffee any hotter.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 04, 2017 12:11 AM (zc3Db)

265 People put cups of Starbuck's coffee between their legs and open them all the time. Nobody has gotten melted genitals from it.

Or, at least, nobody has sued Starbuck's over it. Do you think they're all suffering in silence?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:13 AM (0OG8D)

266 People put cups of Starbuck's coffee between their legs and open them all the time. Nobody has gotten melted genitals from it.

That's really a shame.

Or, at least, nobody has sued Starbuck's over it. Do you think they're all suffering in silence?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:13 AM (0OG8D)

I don't know. I do know that if I did something stupid and knocked an oven-hot steak plate onto my lap I would have the decency not to try and blame the restaurant.

You are against these super-hot steaks and their super hot plates, I have to assume. Personally, I don't see much of a reason for them but if people like that stuff I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to get them. Eventually some asshole will sue, though, and then that will be it for everyone.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 04, 2017 12:16 AM (zc3Db)

267 If you go to Chili's and order fajitas (basically the ur-example of steak on a sizzling platter), it's put on a solid table in front of you. You're not going to pick it up and take it back to the office like that.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:23 AM (0OG8D)

268 You're not going to pick it up and take it back to the office like that.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:23 AM (0OG8D)

Stella would grab it and knock it all over herself ... and her idiot grandson would just sit there watching. And then she would sue, and you and I would never be able to get those fajitas again.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 04, 2017 12:28 AM (zc3Db)

269 Oh, that McDonald's hired a "coffee consultant", huh? Sounds like a job made for a Womyn's Studies major if I ever heard one.

How does this coffee consultant's word outweigh that of the local health department (which can revoke your foodservice license and shut your restaurant down), or that of McDonald's corporate HQ (which can revoke your franchise license and shut your restaurant down)?

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:35 AM (0OG8D)

270 And I'm tellin' you, guy, if every restaurant and every coffee shop served coffee-to-go that was hot enough to melt your genitals, in a flimsy cup, there would've been congressional hearings about it by now.

There haven't been such hearings, though.

This tells me that that McDonald's was outside the norm as far as coffee temperature goes.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:41 AM (0OG8D)

271 You can agree or disagree that that cup of coffee was too hot, but if coffee of that temperature were served everywhere, more such injuries would've resulted, and you can't seriously deny that House Democrats would've taken that up as some sort of "social justice" cause.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 12:47 AM (0OG8D)

272 McD's coffee is still served very hot and will still give third degree burns if you pour it onto your lap and it gets absorbed into your clothes. Other burn cases have occurred, and in some of them (one where a 4 year old was handed a refill) McD's actually does deserve some liability.

People react emotionally to the severity of the injuries in this case, but a lot of people consider the fault to be entirely the side of the customer. All that crap about the coffee being too hot was the plaintiff's lawyer building their case. In the end she was the one who took the cap off and held it between her legs. No "Caution: Very Hot Liquids" can fix that kind of stupid.

Posted by: Sjg at January 04, 2017 01:20 AM (gDSJf)

273 @150: Which distro are you going with?

Slackware. I've been using it since 1996. http://www.slackware.com/

If you need a hand, I've been known to provide advice at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/

Same nick.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2017 02:19 AM (ZBO0C)

274 "Other burn cases have occurred, and in some of them (one where a 4 year
old was handed a refill) McD's actually does deserve some liability."

Nah, McDonald's doesn't deserve any liability, there. That kid was just a total dummy. Have you ever dealt with a four-year-old? They're so stupid. They actually believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It's just embarrassing, really.

Accidents don't happen to smart people, you know.

And even if they did... just hypothetically speaking... it couldn't possibly be someone else's fault.

No artistic genius was ever killed by a drunk driver, for example. It just doesn't happen!

A smart person is always aware of anything that could possibly happen to him at any given moment, and has an ironclad plan for dealing with it.

Like Batman in the Justice League comics. He always has the perfect plan for anything that could possibly happen. Nothing ever catches him by surprise. He's definitely of... slightly above-average intelligence.

Batman from the Batman comics, though? He sometimes actually gets caught by surprise. What an imbecile! World's Greatest Detective, my ass. World's Greatest Dumbass is more like it. "Oh, noes! Who could've ever guessed that the Clock King was working together with Killer Croc?"

Well, maybe you could've if you'd bothered to pull your bat-head out of your bat-ass, you bat-dipshit.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 02:27 AM (0OG8D)

275 Incidentally, you're not fooling anyone, Bruce Wayne. Everyone who reads this comic knows you're really Batman.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 04, 2017 02:32 AM (0OG8D)

276 Wot's Hot and Black and between Megans Legs...you tell me!

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