Power Station Sniper

What motivated the sophisticated sniper attack on a San Jose power station last April? The Times wonders:

Months Later, Sniper Attack at Power Hub Still a Mystery

SAN FRANCISCO — A mysterious and sophisticated sniper attack last year on a Silicon Valley power substation has underscored concerns about the vulnerability of the country’s electrical grid and prompted debate over whether it was an act of terrorism.

The chain of events is not in dispute: Shortly before 1:30 a.m. on April 16, 2013, one or more people methodically cut communication cables near a Pacific Gas & Electric substation in San Jose, sprayed more than 100 rifle bullets and knocked out 17 of the station’s 23 transformers before fleeing and avoiding capture. A grainy black-and-white surveillance video released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office in a search for leads shows shots being fired for about a minute at the substation. 

Though the utility was able to prevent a power failure by diverting electricity from other areas, the damage took 27 days to repair, said Brian Swanson, a spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the attack, but says it has no evidence of terrorism nor any suspects.

“The F.B.I. at this time does not believe it is related to terrorism, based on the initial assessment of the investigation,” Peter Lee, an agency spokesman in San Francisco, said, adding that he was unable to disclose further details. The agency also considers the attack an isolated one, Mr. Lee said.

...

A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said the situation so far was ambiguous.

“When you don’t know who did it and you don’t know what their motives were, it is very hard to say whether it was terrorism or not,” the official said. “Some people said it looks like they had military training, some people say that you can learn this from a video game. We just don’t know.”

So who knows? But based on my extensive reading of fictional thrillers, I found this to be thought-provoking:

The attack has renewed anxiety over the potential vulnerability of the power grid to physical attack, adding to worries about cybersecurity and the ordinary adversaries of hurricanes, floods, wild animals and falling trees.

On Wednesday, utility officials tried to tamp down concern. “It’s harder to knock out the lights than people think because of redundancy and resilience,” said Gerry W. Cauley, president of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a nonprofit group that sets standards for the nation’s utilities.

...

The location of substations is public, but it is a closely guarded secret what combination of them would have to be knocked out to cause extensive harm. It could be as few as a handful in each of the three grids, the eastern continent, from Halifax to New Orleans, the western continent, from New Mexico to Vancouver, and Texas.

We are building to the payoff:

In response to the April attack, the nation’s electric utilities began a two-and-a-half-year program to identify what substations or combinations of substations were most critical to the operations of the continent’s three power grids, how to minimize damage to them once an attack was detected, how to bring in law enforcement personnel before sending in the repair crews, and how to reconfigure the system after an attack to achieve maximum capacity.

I am sure this has crossed the minds of the people involved in this study, but - the playbook for the good guys could easily double as the game plan for the bad guys.

Just imagine that the people who hit the San Jose station are pros with a plan. And suppose they have their own Edward Snowden operating inside a utility somewhere. Within the next few years they may be able to steal away with the detailed assessment of the critical vulnerabilities of our nation's power grids which is currently under development. We might even speculate (wildly!) that a key goal of the San Jose exercise was to try to provoke the creation of such a plan.

Of course, the good guys see through this so they track access to the developing plans very carefully in an attempt to flush out the mole. Or try too - geez, such a page-turner.

Comments

[Eyepatch]

The veneer of support has worn thin. Polishing too often does that.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/07-4

[James D.]

Is that guy still employed at the EPA? I would guess he is.

We are ruled by sociopaths. And a solid core of at least 40% of the population is perfectly happy, both to be ruled, and to have sociopaths for their rulers.

Human nature truly depresses me sometimes.

[Danube on iPad]

Same poll:

With large gender gaps, Colorado voters approve 45 - 41 percent of the job Sen. Mark Udall is doing, but are divided 42 - 42 percent on whether he deserves reelection this year. Women approve 51 - 32 percent and say 48 - 31 percent he deserves reelection. Men disapprove 49 - 40 percent and say 52 - 36 percent he does not deserve reelection.

Looking at the 2014 U.S. Senate race in Colorado, Sen. Udall gets 45 percent to 42 percent for Republican District Attorney Ken Buck. In other possible matchups:

Udall gets 43 percent to 41 percent for State Sen. Randy Baumgardner;
Udall edges State Sen. Owen Hill 44 - 39 percent;
Udall has 43 percent to State Rep. Amy Stephens with 41 percent;
Udall tops businessman Jaime McMillan 45 - 38 percent.

[narciso]

No he went back to the Sierra club, or perhaps Center for American Progress,

[Dave (in MA)]

peter, the worst ads are the Ad Council ones for "KnowHow2GO" where they equate proficiency in "hip hop" DJing and videogame "ownage" with the skills needed to get into college. Their TV counterpart has a kid spraying graffiti on a wall as a demonstration of what it takes to succeed.

[daddy]

Sandy above has a good comment on the lousiness of the Post Office, but I'll use that Post Office point to show how Senator Mark Begich uses it to win votes for re-election:

Begich: Postal Service agrees to roll back rate hike for rural Alaska

The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to reverse a rate increase for Alaskans who live off the road system and are shipping large packages, according to U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, who said he met on Thursday with the U.S. postmaster general to argue for the rollback.

“Alaskans should see relief from soaring postal costs by next week,” said Begich.

See how that works? Thank you Mark Begich! You've certainly got the vote of Alaskans in the Interior with lousy Postal Service.

BTW, did Lisa or Don Young also talk to the Postmaster General?

Shut up. we're trying to get Begich re-elected here, so we're not interested in mentioning that.

Begich also said he added an amendment freezing rates at last year’s level while the Postal Regulatory Commission studies whether the Postal Service has a monopoly on package shipments in rural areas.

Another successful Begich amendment blocked language that would have barred firearms from post office parking lots.

Point is, you walk away from that story being spouted all over the news and TV airwaves up here and you think, wow, Mark Begich did all that for us. What a great Senator for Alaska.

[rich@gmu]

I am an optimist that the rest of the USA does the same thing in 2016.

Posted by: NK(withnewsoftware)

how can you be an optimist, I thought you were greek?

I see nothing but DOOM!!!

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

CLINT!!!-- does the Heimlich, saves a life:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2554169/Clint-Eastwood-83-saves-life-choking-golf-director-performing-Heimlich-Manoeuver.html

[narciso]

they let the Naxguls run over that Mediaite bit, as with much of the Corner, and Breitbart unfortunately.

[narciso]

Of course, don't let the fact that RFK jr is a client of the Maduro regency, get in the way of the facts,

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/02/07/andrea-mitchell-applauds-rfk-jrs-impassioned-plea-obama-stop-keystone-;

[narciso]

Checking to see if there are two suns in the sky;

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/07/afl-cio-bring-on-the-natural-gas-exports-keystone-xl/

[rich@gmu]

what is in it for Steyer to stop keystone?

he's not investing millions in journalists and politicians just because he likes the unspoiled Nebraska plains.

[Danube on iPad]

Bless you for that work, Miss M.

[Cheney's plan all along.]

The Keystone sphincter has it's gassy product pointed overseas markets where top dollar is paid. That's our payoff for fracking the drinking water to make us all 'independent' and all that crap.

[peter]

Dave MA. 5:08
and of course the cumulative effect of all those Ad Counsel spots is that the government is always with you all the time, everywhere. depressing.

[maryrose]

Keystone will be passed so Obama can get credit for something in his second term. He fought it the whole way but he,like Clinton and welfare reform will say it was all his idea. In desperation he will do it beause on March 31st the whole country will know what a big bomb Obamacare is and want to blame the dems.
Trade agrrements won't pass because reid says so and Preezy always gives in to the psycho from Nevada. He will say "I wanted to do it but the unions and reid wouldn't let me.
Boehner played rope a dope perfectly with immigration. I love how the dems got their hopes up fornothing.

[narciso]

Does he need to buy them, they are already a sorority on homecoming week, although I did see a Maclean cover piece trumpeting the Nebraska
rancher, that forced the work around,

Of course, big time oil money from the Emirates and the Peninsula is against this,
either direct contributions, on inkind as in that Dubai film outfit,

[maryrose]

RFK has a job. I want the jobs Keystone will provide for others. Kennedy can gag on his silver spoon.

[narciso]

His job, seems to be spreading lies about vaccines, voting machines, and every other type of defamation, against this country he can find, now he wasn't stupid enough to fall for Obama, unlike sister Caroline, but that's one thin benefit,

[rich@gmu]

I'm still not sure on immigration and since the GOP is going to cave on the debt limit they could sneak something in as a stop gap. I'm also doubtful that the administration will go along with Keystone at this point unless than can arrange it in such a way it can be cut to pieces with enviro lawsuits (similar to Alaska or Yucca Mtn. or nuclear power).

too bad we can't rotate our political class through Miss Marple's food bank to show them what their policies are really doing to people.

[daddy]

Miss Marple,

Sorry for the sad tales of Indy and glad you and your Church do so much for hopefully deserving and grateful folks.

You have such a beautiful clean downtown, but on almost every street-corner there are always people begging for money. I do not give them money as I cannot tell if they are honest in their poverty or doing it as a working gig, and there is such a strong sense as if they are trying to make me feel guilty. (I especially noticed that same strong guilt trip angle at our old hotel years back just across from the big Mormon Temple in downtown Salt Lake City).

In Indy I recall about 6 years back buying an extra burger and fries and a drink about 2 AM at the Steak and Shake, and trying to give it to the guy who was outside the joint and had been earlier trying to panhandle money, and when I gave it to him he didn't want it and used an expletive at me, so no more.

Reminds me how for probably 15 years I would meet the same guy on Telegraph in berkeley outside my favorite Used book stores, always standing at the same place, always relatively clean, spoke well, and eventually we knew each other well enough we'd shoot the breeze and he'd chuckle and tell me that this was just what he felt like doing for a living.

So all that said, I'm sorry about your town's poverty but I donate and give pretty much only to the Salvation Army and that's about it. I much prefer to give a decent tip to the midnight staff working inside the Steak and Shake than to the ungrateful panhandlers hanging around outside.

[narciso]

a little spaking truth to power;

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2014/02/07/robocop-star-obama-is-bush-on-steroids/

[rich@gmu]

narciso-

>>> they are already a sorority on homecoming week<<<

the upkeep on politicians can get pricey and they have a tendency to wear out the vest pocket...journalists are just happy to get a chance to sit at the table.

[henry]

I believe Steyer inverted in green energy start ups* after making big bucks in software... No ROI on a level playing field that Keystone helps maintain.

*not sure which.

[rich@gmu]

daddy well said (as always) and my prayers for your Miss Marple.

[daddy]

I wonder how many lamps were thrown over Elizabeth Hurley.

Captain,

I can't imagine what you are talking about. It is obvious from the look in these people's eyes that they are simply discussing Foreign Policy.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Clinton Photo-- OK OK settle down, we know she bl&w him, so let's get that out of the way. My question is WTF is Clinton wearing? It looks like a doorman's uniform at a Dubai resort.

[rich@gmu]

henry-

hummm. I'll dig around later. In re: your problem and not sure how helpful my suggestions would be...

advertise for a "robotics tinkerer" or "tinker gnome" (joking on this one] in Mohave, Midland, and Cape Canaveral. another option might be to look at the engineering program at Wisconsin and set up a meeting with the undergrad or grad education coordinator and limit the solicitation to those who have classroom and lab experience at the 400 or higher level and gpa (when we built our team at UF we were able to narrow the field by sending out the posting to those who made a B or higher in microprocessors, still had over 50 responses and scheduled 18 interviews).

[miss Marple]

Daddy,

Those panhandlers downtown are career beggars, many of whom go home to comfy abodes. The mayor has been trying to get a panhandling law enacted ibut the dems on the city council (majority) and the professional poverty people have prevented it.

The Salvation Army is great, and they run several food pantries here and many all across the nation. They are very skilled in weeding out the con artists from the truly needy. Plus I love them for how nice they were to my dad during WWII. They were the only charity he would donate to.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Daddy-- speaking of Clinton, 15 years ago Drudge started the great Monica Meme, after Newsweek(?) spiked the story. I read all of the NY Post reportage and was delighted that Clinton had put his thing in the wrong place. I discussed the emerging details with a friend, who at the time was the HR lawyer for a major corporation. I showed him the NY Post story on the train and asked him if he thought any of it was true. he immediately said ALL OF IT. he's a sober and careful lawyer so I asked how could he be so certain. He said it was the BJ's, with 'this kind of guy' it's always BJ's a power thing. I asked what is this 'kind of guy?'. He answered, senior management.. or corporate pilots. He was always defending harassment suits brought against the company because of the pilots ;)

[daddy]

daddy@4:51 - Gibson Guitars comes to mind.

Yessir Beasts,

As does the 8 armed Paramilitary EPA Agents attacking Chicken Alaska (population 17) looking for illegal mud.

[rich@gmu]

where is Steven Segal in that picture? good grief.

[Beasts of England]

Good grief! What kinda penis enlargers guns are those EPA goons toting?

[narciso]

Senator Geary just isn't getting it done:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/06/jobless_benefits_extension_fails_in_senate_121491.html#ixzz2seNpVyZU

[henry]

Rich, I use robots because I like robots... And because robots is easier to type than acronyms like HATEAOS... No actual robots or robot engineers required. : )

[daddy]

why not run for that senate seat?

Rich,

Easy to come up with excuses for that one. No money, no backing, no real interest, not anywhere near well enough informed on State issues, not near precise enough in my thoughts, and I am usually gone from the State for close to 180 days per year, so I miss tons of what's important to folks up here. Just stuff like that.

Personally I would love to vote for our Mayor Dan Sullivan, but he's running for Lt Governor.

[DrJ]

A-Roid sanity?

Alex Rodriguez has dropped his lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the players' association, according to court records, and MLB announced the Yankees third baseman intends to accept his season-long suspension.

[narciso]

OK, then but how about that weasel Anthony Bosch when does he get his comeuppance, I'm being rhetorical, our local state attorney would have to witness the injections and likely not even,

[Danube on iPad]

More Woody Allen:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts

[pagar]

More Obamacare lies!

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/66120380767/obamacare-may-not-cover-your-pre-existing-condition?utm_content=bufferb4e58&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Nothing the leftists tell us seems to be true/

[daddy]

Love Greta's opening segment: Big subhead says

DO NBC MANAGERS HATE VIEWERS?

They Destroy "Tonight" & now the Olympics

[Rob Crawford]

Given this, Mitchell asked if Powell was still a Republican. Powell said that he is. “I think a Republican Party needs me more than the Democratic Party needs me,” he concluded.

Does anyone need Colon? Why doesn't he just retire on his Saudi pension and STFU?

[Bori]

Henry,

Do you develop any ERP software with Restaurant applications or just a more generic applicable type?

[mammy]

"Why doesn't he just retire on his Saudi pension and STFU?"

Are you weary of the Minstrels of our culture? Don some Blackface and step up to the microphone.

See if you can match that talent.

[Rob Crawford]

Shove it up your mouth, Dana.

[rich@gmu]

henry-

so my suggestion was unhelpful (which is what I get for not paying attention)...best of luck regardless, just don't build skynet in your garage.

daddy-

you could have fooled me on most that list. and just think off all the time you'd get to spend in this slice of heaven.

[rich@gmu]

someone passed dana the feather?

[Captain Hate]

Slick looks like Bob Barker with multiple untreated STDs. It's usually drug addicts that find him "charismatic".

[daddy]

On the dog walk I am going to try to figure out what is the big difference between NBC's adulation of Putin and the MSM's adulation of Obama?

Why are many media watchers upset about the first but not about the second?

And I am also wondering if the MSM will think that the just expelled from Russia American Reporter (Suttee?), who lived in Russia and was critical of Putin, if his expulsion was intentional. If Elizabeth Englebrecht being visited by the IRS 6 times and the FBI twice and the EPA and Osha and Homeland Security and the ATF was all just coincidence, why jump to the conclusion that a reporter critical of Putin and getting booted out of Russia just before Sochi started was anything other than a coinkydink as well?

[henry]

Bori, things like payroll and financials are pretty generic (although tip processing is important for restaurants), but more broadly we do manufacturing. That said restaurant chains use our apps in the back office.

If you drop the "/wp", you end up at the main website. That should give a better idea of the application scope.

[rich@gmu]

Beasts-

yeah...relly don't wnat to break one of those goretail light bulbs if those guys are the clean up crew...looks like mp4s and one carrying a 30-06 (but Iggy would know for sure).

yikes was that illegal mud turning Chicken Alaska into 28 days...

[narciso]

David Satter, daddy, aong other things, he has investigated the Ryazan matter, which seemed like a provocation to trigger the second Chechen war.

It's a matter of degree, and unlike in Russia, the press do it to themselves.

I was about to say, the Razorback Borgia isn't too particalar, of his most frequent flings only Elizath Gracen really was striking,

[Captain Hate]

Why are many media watchers upset about the first but not about the second?

I'm upset far more by the second than the first. There is no way a mincemeat like the JEF would last a second in a Rooski power play. That he's attained what he has here is a huge indictment of our country.

[daddy]

and just think off all the time you'd get to spend in this slice of heaven.

Rich,

Momma thinks she would love it, since her brother is some big shot Lefty Lawyer in DC, but my guess is that after having spent a little time in that insane traffic pattern of idiocy she would come to miss the great open spaces out here of "leave us alone-ville."

She was in Begich's wife's coffee shop just after Begich was elected to the Senate (he was still mayor), and Begich was standing in the corner and somebody asked his wife about when was the Mayor gonna' do something about the streets, and Begich's wife pointed to Mark and said "Ask him", and Bubba (Momma) piped in, "Why ask him, he doesn't care. It ain't his problem anymore."

She said he burst out laughing.

Hell, maybe Momma should run for Senate:)

[rich@gmu]

whoa...really don't want to break...

[rich@gmu]

ha...

[rich@gmu]

...just thinking back to the write in campaign you started...you even have experience.

[daddy]

To the dogs...

[Danube on iPad]

Nice to see McCain on Cavuto saying "Costas didn't know what the hell he's talking about." He said "stick to the hockey games."

[narciso]

the thing about Russia, is that they crave stability, the shock of the 90s, the rise of the oligarchs, the first Chechen war cannot be underestimated, the support for 'the czar in all put crown', the popularity of films like
one about Kolchak, the old White Army commander, the support for Stolypin who was the last effective czarist era prime minister are all of a piece,

[Captain Hate]

Toyota is close to a deal to pay more than $1 billion to end a U.S. criminal probe of how it disclosed drivers' complaints of unintended acceleration, according to people familiar with the matter.

A settlement could come despite a lack of evidence to date that the cars suffered from a mechanical or electronic defect. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration never found flaws in the electronic throttle-control or control software of the cars in question and determined operator error or floor mats trapping accelerator pedals were involved in most accidents.

Toyota has consistently disputed claims by plaintiffs' attorneys that its vehicles are defective, saying misplaced floor mats trapped the accelerator pedal in some cases. It hasn't admitted wrongdoing in any of the law suits brought against the company involving unintended acceleration.

We may as well have Shakedown Jackson as Attorney General.

[Captain Hate]

Did somebody tell McCain that Costas was in the Tea Party?

[Captain Hate]

I agree with all of that, narc.

[cuano]

Toyota; "We aren't responsible..."

Tepco; "We're not responsible"

[narciso]

the last part I remember reading somewhere, but I forget where.

Atty General Luigi Vercotti you mean,

[Danube on iPad]

Great Scott. McConnell is trailing by 3-4% in Kentucky.

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

I think the Costas criticism is interesting, and also his favorable remarks about Putin. He's with NBC, whose side is he on?

[Beasts of England]

Idiot Pelosi says 'Today's jobs report shows our recovery continuing to move forward...'

The science is settled!

[Captain Hate]

they let the Naxguls run over that Mediaite bit

I think TM and Poppin Fresh alternate doing mod work at that site, judging from the content.

[stent]

" He's with NBC, whose side is he on?"

Holy Moly. If someone said the 'money' side, would that make any sense at all?

[Ignatz]

NHTSA; "Toyota is not responsible...."

[Ignatz]

That Vanity Fair piece pretty much blew up the objections I had read previously.

Bottom line; I don't like Woody Allen so has to be guilty, right?

[stent]

7:56; That's tedious and unfathomable. Can you break it down?

[stent]

" I don't like Woody Allen so has to be guilty, right?"

Rhetorical, right?

[narciso]

I think there is a similar sentiment in Egypt, the reason why Al Sisi is strong, at this point they don't really care about what is done with
the latest Lkwan spinoff, Amsar Bayt, although in time, they will lose confidence,

[Captain Hate]

whose side is he on?

I think you have to descend to the depths of Rick Reilly and Skip Bayless to find somebody as loathed on sports boards as Costas. This has been a recent phenomenon because everybody used to like him including me. It's like he caught the Bryant Gumbel disease.

[Bori]

Henry,

I asked because I do some consulting and could use a light ERP software for my customers.

[BB Key]

Henry, I heard part of a piece on NPR this AM about Sea Caves on Lake Superior which are accessible from Bayfield WS due to the frozen Lake.

True phenomenon or envioro Hype

[Rob Crawford]

So apparently NBC referred to the Holodomor as part of a "pivotal experiment"...

Can't they at least admit the experiment failed?

Please?

[narciso]

Taranto is gentle with the cluebat against Comandante Krugman;Although it was charitable of Krugman to warn readers off the rest of his column, those who heeded his admonition not to read on missed his amusingly worded nod in the general direction of reality: "More subtly, the incentive to work will be somewhat reduced by health insurance subsidies that fall as your income rises."

[narciso]

An another Fox Butterfield moment:

"Aetna Inc, the third-largest U.S. health insurer, said on Thursday it expects to lose money on the Obamacare exchanges even as demand for these insurance plans has picked up over the past few weeks."--Caroline Humer, Reuters, Feb. 6

[henry]

BB Key, Althouse has a post on that ice cave thing. I don't go anywhere that cold, at least not on purpose.

Bori, fair question. We both need more info to tell if the ERP is light enough. You can email me at my nic at harrisdata dot com, or call & ask for me. I suspect we agree that force fits help no one.

[Captain Hate]

So apparently NBC referred to the Holodomor as part of a "pivotal experiment"...

They've cloned Duranty at 30 Rock?

[rse]

Bori-I know somebody very well who has created software that is an operating system for take out gourmet that tracks inventory against orders etc being used by growing businesses in this recessionary envmt. Would that help? Man previously developed a financial recordkeeping software so he is not just tinkering.

[Threadkiller]

Who gets the 1 billion from Toyota?

Issa?

Sirius??

From a long time ago:

Issa is a perfect tie in to this thread. In 2004 he co-sponsored a bill to change the presidential requirements to allow any citizen, who has lived in this country for 35 years, to be eligible for POTUS. It failed. This was an attempt to make Arnold a contender.

What they will find on Issa will come from his relentless pursuit of Toyota in the wake of the driver error crashes. He had a financial tie to a company that was in direct competition with Audiovox.

Audiovox won a bid that Issa's company, after it's purchase of Sirius, was in the running for.Directed Electronics (Sirius' parent company) lost 90 million in one year.

Toyota was the largest purchaser of Audiovox satellite and electronic equipment and Issa had a personal interest in a competitor. This will be a problem if they pursue Issa enough.

Posted by: Threadkiller | February 15, 2011

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2011/02/one-set-of-rules/comments/page/2/

I have no intention of looking all of the info up again. The dots are there to be connected, though.

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

Anyone else watching the opening ceremonies - or are you all too jaded?

[narciso]

Oldman's remarks above might have been an understatement;

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/02/ex-state-department-advisor-will-plead-guilty-leaking-information-fox-news/357855/

[pagar]

Strange!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-07/4th-financial-services-executive-found-dead-self-inflicted-nail-gun-wounds

[Beasts of England]

Hunt for Red October theme!

[Captain Hate]

No way, Jane; although Tammy Bruce talked about one of the Rooski women doing the lighting the flame ceremony was somebody who tweeted an unflattering item about the JEF and Mooch in the past, which bothers our federal apparatchiks more than having a repressive society and other minor items. You guys probably know about this already but it was new to me.

[Threadkiller]

Here is the grease-monkey getting into the nuts and bolts of Toyota:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Kcsl-tkw

Where did he get the jumpsuit?

"Oh what a feeling" up...

[Beasts of England]

Oh. That's there national anthem. ;)

[Beasts of England]

'their'

[Threadkiller]

It happens all the time, pagar.

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

I didn't know Capn'.

[Captain Hate]

Well good then, Jane; Tammy said this was a real poke in the eye to the JEF and obviously done deliberately.

[narciso]

this is the link, from Tammy's site

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/europe/197795-russian-who-tweeted-racist-obama-pic-lights-olympic-torch

[Beasts of England]

Did the Rooskies steal this background music from a bad 80's techno album?

[Bori]

rse,

Yes, a problem I come across a lot, is that the business is using separate types of software to do different things if they use any at all. Most of the lot of the commercially available software is either too bulky, or technical for small businesses. I keep searching for something that would integrate the basics, sales, food, labor, operating costs in a small and affordable package without the bloat.

[Captain Hate]

Garry Kasparov ✔ @Kasparov63

I hope the journalists in Sochi complaining about a lack of doorknobs & wifi pay as much attention to the lack of free speech & elections.