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September 19, 2014

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Jim Eagle

First ( and in Ukranian, in case you haven't noticed)

Thomas Collins

Kudos to you, TM, for punking me. I checked the article to see whether the last sentence of your quote of the Russkie Suds Czar was really included in the article. I thought perhaps whoever wrote the article (or the Russkie suds czar) has a sense of humor, but I should have known it was your sense of humor!

peter

Take that, Gmax, you are fourth at best

NKrebooting

ThomasC-- I read the article for that reason as well.... I feel great shame.

Thomas Collins

That's why we're not even going to get onto JOM Island, NK. But cheer up. That means we won't be voted off!

Jim Eagle

Are women that dumb that the appeal the Dems use can influence them regarding politics. If so, I am so dissapointed, My wife comes from a semi-socialist country, went to a very progressive College (high school) and is now more conservative than me on women's issues?

jimmyk

So are these beer buyouts "inversions"? If the geniuses in D.C. don't cut the corporate income tax, it will be "Can the last one out turn off the lights?"

Old Lurker

Hey...JOMesqs will be welcome on the island but we will have a Bar Membership Card burning requirement...

NKrebooting

OL-- wait... will we be forced to convert and pray to the MBA Gods?

peter

Who cares, it's all crap beer anyway. Bring me a craft brew any day.

Oh get well soon, Jim Rhoads and Frau

Ignatz

Logging was the most dangerous job in 2012.
This is all logging related jobs including guys off the ground and in machines all day.
Were timber falling broken out separately it would be far and away number one every year.
Tough hombres.

Extraneus

Is the corporate tax rate really 40%? This table says China's is 25%, and the US is second worst to the United Arab Emirates' 55%. Even Venezuela's is only 34%!

Corporate tax rates table

Let's face it, we suck.

jimmyk

Yes, get well wishes for Frau too.

This is interesting for a bunch of reasons:

https://twitter.com/CharlesBurgoyne/status/512919981680787456/photo/1

First, I didn't know that 16-17 year olds voted on the referendum. Second, huge generation gap. Either the Scots get more pro-UK as they age, or in another 10 years they'll vote to split.

narciso

I think the bigger issue is Volodya threatening to take Warsaw, very much in the Catherine the Great venue,

GMax

I was not playing. Cant lose a game you don't participate in!

Meanwhile someone yesterday posted something about Colorado registrations. It did not look right to me but I just now had a chance to double check.

Republicans are indeed outpacing Democrats in registrations. Current registrations as monitored monthly by the SoS shows 941K Republicans active registrants and only 884K Democrat ones. Here is the link for the data:

http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VoterRegNumbers/VoterRegNumbers.html

The math is 941/ 941 + 884 = 51.56%

So 51.56 - 48.44 = 3.12%. OR R + 3%

If Indys are 50%+ for Republicans ( I have seen no contention that Indys in Colorado are bucking the trend nationwide of near 60/40 to the Rs), the only way for Democrats to win, would be to have more Republicans vote for the Democrat than vice versa. I see no poll claiming that is happening either.

Perhaps the registration will change dramatically in the next couple months, but I sincerely doubt it. I like our chances therefore in Colorado. News the media never tells you.

How many divisions does Pabst have?

Steven Koonin's essay in the WSJ about climate science is worth reading. He's chairman of the American Physical Society's committee to review their climate change statement.

Extraneus

Army opens Ranger school to women

The U.S. Army is opening the door for women to go to Ranger school.

It's one of the first steps in the broader effort to allow women to begin moving into more grueling combat jobs.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno (oh-dee-EHR'-noh) says he believes he will be able to put women in the Ranger course next spring.

While completing the leadership course would let women wear the coveted Ranger tab, it does not let them become members of the Ranger regiment. Currently only men can be in the 75th Ranger Regiment -- the special operations forces unit based at Fort Benning, Georgia. Joining the regiment requires additional difficult schooling.

Women can now begin volunteering for the course and will also be asked to serve as advisers and observers.

I'd rather see one of these woman than KimK's butt.

Jane

So what's this?

Vladimir Putin Threatens World War 3, Says Russia Could Invade Europe Within Two Days


Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1484957/vladimir-putin-threatens-world-war-3-says-russia-could-invade-europe-within-two-days/#B5XmQxkTwWrSVjGj.99

Jim Eagle

If she makes it without mods to the course thajn, Hoooo Haaaa. But if they accommadate the sexes: DOOM™

matt

He won't invade once he tries a Pabst Blue Ribbon. That'll keep him down on the dacha.

Pabst always was pretty rank. Perfect for relaxing after an invasion of Ukraine.

Captain Hate

Hmmm, TM's been pretty busy today so I have some scurrying around to catch up. I was a pallbearer for the second time today; both times for D-Day vets.

It would be easier for the causal viewers if Bruce just said she hates Rand Paul.

I'm probably a restraining order away from proving my non casual viewing bona fides, but it doesn't take much insight to surmise that Miss Bruce can't stand Rand Paul, ie. I think she's stated that multiple times.

henry

TM, you left out that miller is South African (SAB). Only craft & homebrew is domestic anymore.

Pabst / Piels ... use the pre-skunker technology at the brewery so you don't have to worry about skunking your beer.

Miss Marple

Good evening, all. I have returned from the homecoming parade for my high school, which is also the high school my grandchildren attend.

The Grand Marshal was Rupert of the Survivor TV show, which was fitting because the theme of the cheer section tonight is tie-dye. Rupert has been surpassed only by the Kardasians in levereging a little fame into a career of being famous, although mostly he does it here in Indiana.

Granddaughter plays in the drum line, and senior grandson is president of the Booster Club which organized the whole thing, so I got pictures of both of them.

It is nice to do something like this which is so American and NORMAL. The neighborhood around the school (where the parade is held and where the grandkids live) was built between 1936 and 1956, so it is full of bungalows, cottage-style houses, 50's ranches, etc. and very well kept. All-American neighborhood.

People line the streets in lawn chairs and cheer the different clubs with their home made floats, including the Chin, who have a huge presence and are Burmese Christian refugees. Lots of little kids from the youth football program are in the parade, too.

Beautiful evening with no clouds and temps in the high 60's.

God bless America.

Captain Hate

Let the Rooskis have Pabst. Dennis Hopper's dead so they can't do any Frank Booth endorsements.

Miss Marple

With all of the press hand-wrining about football, it occurs to me that we didn't see any of this when Ted Kennedy was up to his escapades, or Jim Moran's wife-beating, or Bill Clinton, or any of the other sordid stuff democrats have been up to.

So when those networkpeople start lecturing me on morality, I sort of tune them out.

Jim Eagle

Short Roger Goodell today:

I WAS WRONG.

DON'T BLAME ME BUT THE SYTEM.

I HAVE APPOINTED THESE CHICKS TO FEMINIZE THE NFL

We have former and current democrat hacks to figure this out and help us deal with is frok the Bill Clinto era.

henry

Just caught the evening local news, some info babe was very distressed about Burke plagiarizing her jobs plan. It was torture pron when she read Walker's statement (it is a sad day in Wisconsin when a candidate for statewide office borrows failed ideas from other states instead of addressing Wisconsin needs...). The anchor had to bail her out by switching to extended hours at the DMV to get valid voter ID. Local NBC affiliate at that. At least the did it on a Friday.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

We have our first home football game this evening at the high school. I can hear the PA announcer as I'm typing this.

Gooooooooo Broncos! This year they have added horse noises, (neighhh) and the dogs aren't sure what to make of it. It's better than when they first built the stadium (seats 8K) and they thought shooting off a cannon for each TD was a good idea. The china cabinet and artwork didn't think so...it used to rattle the house something fierce.

There were folks tailgating at 5:30 for the 7:30 start. That I don't get. You can't drink anything alcoholic, but you rush home from work, load up your SUV with the grill, food, canopy and chairs to do what, cook, eat and be seen for 45 minutes before you load all the stuff back up and head to the stadium?

Dumb.

It's gonna be drum lines, cheers and the announcer for the next three hours and OMG that horse noise is annoying as shit - on every first down... really? The drums are fun, but OMG!!

I think I'm getting crotchety in my twilight years.

Ignatz

--I think I'm getting crotchety in my twilight years. --

Just think of the football field as your lawn...you can figger out the rest. :)

narciso

Fran Tarkenton's rant on the other thread, where does he measure up.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

LOL I started to add that, too, Ig.

We have a jumbo tron, too. Cost $100K. The booster club bought it and I think it is bigger than the one at Tech. Ridiculous. Of course if you charge $500 bucks for a primo parking space you can soon pay it off.

And OMG now they are setting off sirens when they score. The sound effects are way too much....

Centralcal on iPad

The parade sounds wonderful, Miss Marple.

Danube on iPad

Watch the president's National Security Advisor. Let your confidence soar.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/19/Rice-Bolts-During-Intense-Press-Questioning-Over-Obamas-Syrian-Air-Strikes

Buckeye

Just about 24 hours running iOS8 on my iPad2. Not ready for prime time. Another few years and Apple will be just like Microsoft.

Miss Marple

Stephanie, The school district I live in has a jumbotron, artificial turf, and a locker room building with CEDAR lockers.

This is not my grandkids' district, which has artificial turf this year put in by a local car dealer, who also did 4 other local high schools. He got his name put on the stadium in a big banner.

The stadium isn't as large as the one you descibe, BUT it has concrete walls built by the WPA in 1936. I would love to know that concrete recipe, because it is still standing after multiple winters with below zero temps and nary a crack to be seen! This stadium was built when my DAD (SHS '36) was in high school It's the same stadium where I marched as a flag girl. My grandpa was an assistant football coach and coached wrestling at the same school (taught government, too).

This side of Indianapolis has families several generations deep. It is not the most affluent side but it is definitely the most traditional and conservative side.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

MM, I love the parades they do for the high schools with the floats, majorettes, and flags.

Miss Marple

By the way, the terrorism thing is percolating through the public's mind. My DIL's mother asked me if I had heard about the Australian terror raids.

I told her I had, and informed her of the ISIS people being traced by FBI here in this country.

She told me she didn't understand why these people were allowed back into the country.

Ignatz

Kim's Steve Koonin WSJ climate change link.

matt

Putin just told Ukraine to revise its EU treaty.

Miss Marple

Photo of guy who got across the White House fence and ran towards White House:

Threadkiller

Good thing they didn't sell to China.


Ignatz

In contrast to the sensible Koonin here is the nonsensical Bill MCKibben and some union scrote describing the wonders of the People's Climate March.
Climate "science" for dummies.

henry

That looks like Bigfoot Miss M, kinda blurry just like Bigfoot pics so it must be him.

Threadkiller

Saw your info on the Jag, Ig.

Thanks.

Miss Marple

I read that he got all the way to the North Portico.

Am wondering why he wasn't shot.

Ignatz

--I read that he got all the way to the North Portico.

Am wondering why he wasn't shot.

Posted by: Miss Marple | September 19, 2014 at 08:19 PM --

Barry was waiting for his man....in a Velvet Underground sorta way.

Centralcal on iPad

Barry wasn't at the WH.

Someone said on Twitter that if you really need to go after Obama, try the golf course.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

MM, most of the parents around here have more money than sense as far as the football team goes. They just added a new locker room this year and turned the old one into a workout room larger than the LA Fitness down the street. Haven't been inside, but if it's expensive, I guarantee they have it. The stadium is bedecked in custom banners and flags hung from the light towers and around the top of the stadium. The 'really intense' football parents spend the four nights before every home game (from about 4 pm to close to midnight) painting the field and the end zones with the team name and the Broncos logos. They repeat that for every home game.

Insane.

Have the Russians perfected the golf club gun yet??

Ignatz

--Barry wasn't at the WH.--

That's the one thing they never lie about.
Couldn't resist, TK. :)

Ignatz

Maggie Gallagher wonders why GOPe campaigns don't work too well, implying that the "we'll make it up in volume" tactic works no better in retail politics than retail sales.

Miss Marple

New CBS series starring Tea Leoni:

MADAME SECRETARY

Another propaganda piece just in time for the elections.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

Halftime! There's something like 200 students in the band 2 drum majors, 24 flag girls, 30 dance line, and 8 majorettes - they make a D2 school look chintzy...

Miss Marple

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/09/11/largest-liberian-newspaper-us-government-manufactured-ebola-aids-virus/

Yessir, let's send our 3000 troops into this area.

How long until the mobs show up with machetes?

narciso

yes two summers ago, they had a similar roman a clef, Political Animals with Sigourney Weaver, as the Hillary manque, an almost perfectly porcine Ciaran Hinds as the Bill type, and Adrian Pasdar (husband of Natalie Maines)
as an Italian Obama, I guess more of a Cuomo,

James D.

Just about 24 hours running iOS8 on my iPad2. Not ready for prime time. Another few years and Apple will be just like Microsoft.

NEVER EVER EVER download a software update from Apple for at least the first month after release! Let other people be the guinea pigs and discover all the crippling bugs Apple managed to miss in all their pre-release resting.

I learned that one a couple of updates back when I spent 8 hours fighting with my iPod touch.

caro

Hey, check this out. second photo down on the left.

Our hero.

henry

You are fortunate James. I have a professional obligation to test this carp early (my products run on it, it is better when I find the bugs before my customers do). Right now the download is showing random numbers on time remaining. If it ever completes, I will see if my software still runs. MS and IBM usually break things all over, Apple hasn't yet. But they are afraid of Samsung and May have rushed this one -- "biggest release since I-tunes" does not inspire confidence.

Janet

This is funny...
over at WZ referring to Kerry as Imam Kerry. Hah!

http://weaselzippers.us/200167-imam-kerry-tells-un-security-council-isis-is-using-a-gross-distortion-of-islam/

DrJ

Welcome home, caro!

Centralcal on iPad

An article from gotta mobile.com about the iOS 8 issues:

"You don’t need to install the iOS 8 update on the iPad 2. You can stay on iOS 7.1.2 forever if you want. There is a small window to downgrade from iOS 8 to iOS 7, but it closes any day now, and it won’t open back up. There is hope that an iOS 8.1 update will delivery better iPad 2 performance, but that could take months to arrive."

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Also, I am on iPad Air and haven't been notified yet of any update to 8 - did you go looking for it to install?

narciso

Catching the Dark World, the second Thor, which put Siff, up early in the tale, it's not as ponderous without Kenneth Branagh's direction,

Centralcal on iPad

Sorry Henry, auto- correct: gottabemobile.com

narciso

I know they can't do a full debug, pre rollout,
but they can improve the quality control regimen, or is this not a thing anymore,

caro

DrJ, I was in IAD a mere 24 hours after you. A near miss. So sad.

This is on topic for a previous thread. I am 70 and wearing pants I bought at Ocean State Job Lot. $10. Eddie Bauer.

Five more years will not be enough.

 photo DSC00941_zps5f26fa7d.jpg

Very glad to be home and have a good and fast internet connection. I missed you all.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

I'm watching that too, narc.

She's human...Illness is their defining trait.

- Things Ezekiel "Odin" Emmanuel might say

DrJ

caro,

Sorry we missed each other! There will be other times...

henry

MS does a thing called "good enough software" where speed to market trumps initial quality. There is a good book about it (and how to deal with service calls) "Bad Software." With Jobs gone, I worry that Apple under stress switched to this Silicon Valley convention.

cc, I have an iPad 2 because it still loads new versions. Latest version compatibility is what matters, I worry less about running slow because I mostly use the browser and my products run in the browser. I had 7 app updates waiting today, all mentioned iOS 8. So I went to the software update control and there it was. I need to test the new Safari version to see if it broke Sencha frameworks in the way we use them -- I could search tech sites and find out but it is faster to dive straight in.

clarice

We missed you too, Caro.

narciso

are his lips moving, if not what the point:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/former-defense-secretary-panetta-i-really-really-thought-we-should-keep-some-us-troops-in-iraq-video/

clarice

Damn it, Jane!

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

They just scored again and when they activated the siren sound (it sounds like a fire engine) it got stuck... Gaaaah! It's still going off about 2 minutes later. FAIL!

Miss Marple

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-gangsta-rapper-sparks-fear-of--homegrown--islamist-threat-in-germany-212937819.html

No reason that this isn't happening here, too.

caro

Thanks, Clarice.

Miss Marple

Nytol.

Donald

I really missing this football season.

This is the first time I have not been on a field since 1985.

I miss the mechanics!

narciso

this guy had too much time on his hands, and still missed the point:

http://www.vice.com/read/movies-about-time-travel-are-garbage-999

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

Donald! How ya doing? Bet ya wouldn't miss the damn siren. ;)

Jane on Ipad

Yippee! Caro's back!

Rick B

Richard Lindzen

Very much the most concise and perhaps best piece I have ever read on the illusions and delusions which form the core of progressive feeling (there has never been any thought involved). Hayek called what Lindzen describes "scientism", dressing prejudice without rational basis in a lab coat to increase sales to the pathetically gullible.

Jane on Ipad

Caro,

I need you to post that one of Trey and I. Cause so far, Ann's got me beat!

Jane on Ipad

Caro,

I can't believe that is you on that rock (well, yeah I can believe it.). You and AB are in competition for looking 40 in your seventies.

Jane on Ipad

Trey and ME - sorry.

DrJ

Thank you Jane! Me/I is a battle I fight here often (arghh!)

Is it still "talk Like A Pirate Day?"

Centralcal on iPad

Welcome back, Caro! You really know how to take a Summer vacation - yikes.

Old Lurker

Good one, Rick.

Thanks

caro

I know, cc. It was a bit of a marathon. The pic is from France.

Now I had better get back to work!

jimmyk on iPhone

"Just about 24 hours running iOS8 on my iPad2. Not ready for prime time. Another few years and Apple will be just like Microsoft.

I had read recently that OS8 was technically compatible but not a good idea for the iPad2.

jimmyk on iPhone

Found what I'd read:

http://www.zdnet.com/six-reasons-why-you-should-not-immediately-upgrade-to-ios-8-7000033596/

Ignatz

As far as I can see, possibly the most important advance smartphones have afforded mankind has been to inflict stunningly tedious pictures of drooling babies, sea weed strewn beaches, puppies, kittens and large rocks and holes in the ground on friends and innocent passersby.

Threadkiller

Me, Myself and I walk into a bar and spot a gorgeous blond playing it cool over by the jukebox. They immediately start arguing over who would get to take her home that night. I came right out saying "Now if anyone is going to bang this broad, it's going to be me!" To which Myself replied "But I just nailed some floozy last night! If anything, I should have this one all for myself." And in attempt to settle the matter Me reasoned, "Why can't you two just agree with what I said?" After going on like this for a good ten minutes, they finally decided to ask the woman which one she would prefer. Taking a good hard look at each of them she casually remarked: "I'd rather get myself off"


Captain Hate

I regularly ridicule the World's Leader in Sports Entertainment Broadcasting for good reason but there are some things they do really well:

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11551518/how-ray-rice-scandal-unfolded-baltimore-ravens-roger-goodell-nfl?src=mobile

I know Goodell and most of the owners are libs because of how they, in effect, blackballed Rush from buying a part ownership in a franchise. But the GOPe strategists have to be impressed with this sort of rapid response to the above:

http://twitchy.com/2014/09/19/ravens-claim-espn-article-full-of-numerous-errors-will-address-next-week/

henry

jimmyk, the iOS 8 is now installed. Runs fine, although the type ahead feature in Safari is spooky. Seems an improvement on autocorrect in that it doesn't replace what I type, but the dictionary appears to include every word typed in all the apps on the device. Spooky.

Threadkiller

Perry Special Prosecutor Faces Own Legal Problems

http://www.kwtx.com/news/state/headlines/Perry-Special-Prosecutor-Faces-Own-Legal-Problems-275656891.html

Threadkiller

Is "McClintock" in your type ahead, Henry?

Gus

I'm heartbroken, PBR is going to be owned by the Godless heathens?

Eric in Boise

Ig, I saw this somewhere recently (don't remember where - maybe Ace's)

"I have in my pocket a device that allows me to access the entire accumulated knowledge of mankind with a few finger strokes. I use it to look at pictures of cats and argue with strangers."

Threadkiller

Goodnight all.

Bori

For all the legal eagles out there, new course at the Miami Law for students regarding the Trayvon Martin Case. Thought by Jasmine Rand, of course.

The course will cover;

“Non-traditional legal analysis”? “Sociological intersection of race and the law”? “Use of the media as a tool of advocacy”? Yeah, that sounds like Crump & Park, alright.

Question: How’d that work out for them in the Zimmerman trial?

But wait, there’s more: “The course will highlight . . . the ability of music to communicate messages that impact legal reform.”

LUN

Ignatz

LOL. I saw that too Eric. Should be on many a headstone in the coming years.

Danube on iPad

Why we're wasting our time here:

"One in three Americans can’t name a single branch of the U.S. government, according to a poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

"The survey, which was conducted from July 8 to 14, and published Sept. 17, found that only 36 percent of respondents could name all three branches of government, while an alarming 35 percent of survey respondents couldn’t name a single branch."

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