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August 18, 2015

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centralcal

Sunday is over so soon?

henry

Yeah, why should she be different than Feingold? He has shown the way to superPAC as a way to fund himself and selected staff without paying tax on the inbound cash.

daddy

jimmyk, I believe Rodham is incredibly stupid about how computers work. And everything else.

Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad

I recall tho' that the only person who's ever been called on "internet" stupidity was Senator Ted Stevens, for his "Series of Tubes".

henry

Rodham had access to the inventor of the Internet. I'm sure she knows as much as Gore does.

daddy

With the newer type of operating systems on computers--I know I have lost control over much or how my computer operates.

A couple thoughts on the theme of our technology outrunning us. I recall my pop saying that in WW2, the US Army had a great advantage over the German's because almost any American, since they had grown up on a farm, could tinker under the hood of a stalled vehicle and get the thing running again, whereas he did not detect that in the Germans. They had to abandon their stuff and move on.

The guy I worked with recently said that the International Space Station is half Russian and half US, and it is easy to see the difference. He said that our half is very hi-tech, but it's mainly changing out computer programs and hi-tech auto updates, whereas on the Russian half it's must less technologically advanced, but that the Russians are exceptionally capable of gimmicking and reworking their equipment with their hands, in what I took to be the same way as my pop described his WW2 US troops. We have become a bit clueless prisoners of our automation, whereas they have not. He thought there was benefit in that, as did I.

He mentioned how he had been allocated 2 hours to replace some window of consequence, and that he had done in in about 15 minutes, and that the ground boys who relied on that window were exceptionally happy about it, and from then on they demanded him to be the guy doing the hands on tool twisting.

Just to let you know, he wasn't bragging---he was simply answering my questions.

Dave (in MA)
I recall tho' that the only person who's ever been called on "internet" stupidity was Senator Ted Stevens, for his "Series of Tubes".

Yeah, huh?

Captain Hate on the iPad

Trying to lure DoT back with Stones lyrics?

Frau  Hochverrat

CH @ 6:18 - then I'm all for it.

daddy

In praise of "Loose Cannons."

Henry on the previous thread, posts this excellent news, that Judge Emmet Sullivan is speeding up the Case of Judicial Watch versus the State Dept and Hillary's missing E-mails: Federal Judge Moves Up Hearing for Hillary Email Case

Great!

That reminds me that Judicial Watch is, or at least was, founded by traditional "Loose Cannon" Larry Klayman.

That got me thinking about where we are now with the Planned Parenthood brouhaha. It's on the radar screen because of "Loose Cannon's" like James O'Keefe, and whoever his new secret video acolyte is.

Then we've got Illegal Immigration and the porous Border and Sanctuary City murders now as a front and center issue, and the potential repeal of Birth-Rightism, because of that new "Vulgar Loose Cannon, Donald Trump.

So the 3 issues currently resonating with Americans, and capable of producing essential change, HillaryGate, Fetal-TissueGate, and Illegal ImmigrationGate, are all brought front and center by "Loose Cannons."

So join me please in giving 3 Tea Party cheers for Conservative "Loose Cannons."

Yip, yip, Yahoo!
Yip, yip, Yahoo!
Yip, yip, Yahoo!

GMax

Not Yahoo for goodness sakes. A more forsaken godless place which cheers for every idiotic progressive idea like its double chocolate donuts, could not be found even if Diogenes did the search...

Extraneus

White House appoints first openly transgender official

Yay!


daddy

When Kendall took the thumb drive and kept it, that was a felony. If he didn’t know it on the spot, then he knew when the State Department sent him a secure safe to keep it in. At that point as a minimum, the ignorance defence collapses.

Great point, Poirrot.

narciso

Which is why the snark re the claims from the border patrol, seemed specially inapropriate, we have senor lazar, guccifer
To this crew of provocateurs, hackers and agitators.

narciso

Whatever the Romanian word for mister, he breached the Blumenthal gate, into benghazi

centralcal

Extraneus: This transgender business - so many of them look like they didn't quite make it. I mean the full transformation from male to female - like they got about 3/4 of the way, but not quite the full 100% transformation.

I would say the he/she in your picture only got about 50% or halfway.

Buckeye

Daddy

Your 5:59 is spot on, but I think there is also an additional cultural component.

Roughly 35 years ago, Mrs. Buckeye and I went to Jamaica for a week of R&r. We booked an all inclusive at a resort and by the 3rd day were bored with the food. I got us a dinner reservation at a swank German owned resort a couple miles away.

Dinner was very nice, served on an large outdoor patio next to the beach. It was dark by the time dinner was served and each of the tables had hurricane lamps with lit candles for light. During dinner I noticed a commotion at another table. The glass in their lamp had broken, and the wicker surround was on fire.

There were probably 100 couples sitting there and I am pretty sure we were the only non Germans. Not one person took action, they were screaming for "the help" to solve the problem and put out the fire. I calmly dunked my cloth napkin in water, wrapped my hand with it, walked to the table, grabbed the lamp and threw it out on the beach.

What was amazing was the looks I got. These people could not even comprehend that kind of self reliance. they were dumbfounded.

I couldn't imagine not doing something.

I was really struck by the difference in attitude.

Was good for a bunch of free drinks and dinner on the house, so all good in my mind.

Frau  Hochverrat

From the Cash, cash, cash link:

...Correct the Record, run by Mrs. Clinton’s ally familiar David Brock,

FIFY NYT

GMax

What with a cloth or something?z


These words will haunt the Red Witch. Its fairly easy to believe they were earnest...

GMax

Off?

Extraneus

Oh yes: Sources tell NBC that FBI is optimistic it can recover data from Hillary’s wiped server; Update: Hillary dodges when asked if server was wiped

Now that they have the server, they should be able to tell how many different users were accessing it, including unauthorized users. Which is to say, even if it can’t be proved that Hillary herself knowingly transmitted classified information in an insecure manner — not the criminal standard of culpability but the moral standard she’ll claim in doing damage control — the feds might be able to tell if foreign spies were reading her e-mail.

This is wishful thinking. There are freeware programs that will over-write every bit on a hard-drive with random data. Surely Her Highness had access to even better technology.

I think the idea that that NJ server has any useful info is a fantasy. Platte River's servers and backups might, though. Otherwise, they're probably liable for obstruction charges.

Did they FBI get those, too? Do we know whether they did?

narciso

And the quinella you add bannon, to the picture, while dolci and gabbani are spinning their looms, he peered behind the curtain

daddy

Trying to lure DoT back with Stones lyrics?

The other night after watching some BBC Special on Brian Wilson's creation of the Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" album, I was led to Rolling Stones rating of the top 500 pop songs.

I thought when I first looked, since it takes a while to load, that they had rated the Stones "I can't get no Satisfaction" as number 1, but on looking closer I see Mick and the boys lost out to Dylan. Here's the top 10 as rated by Rolling Stone mag:

1) Like A Rolling Stone---Dylan
2) Satisfaction---Stones
3) Imagine--- Forest Gump Lennon
4) Whats Going On---Marvin Gaye
5) Respect---Aretha
6) Good Vibrations---Beach Boys
7) Johnny B Goode--- Michael J FOX Chuck Berry
8) Hey Jude---Beatles
9) Smells Like Teen Spirit---Nirvana
10) What'd I Say---Ray Charles

Just like their reporting of the UVA Non-Rape case, I have issues with Rolling Stone's top 10 list.

sbwaters

ccal, one can’t know which direction the transition was travelling. A quantum mechanics/time direction sort of thingy.

daddy

Clinton responded in a press conference later Tuesday during which she refused to answer whether she had wiped the server. When asked she jokingly said "with a cloth?"

Maybe she's auditioning to take over from John Stewart.

narciso

Btw the huntress appears now more often on fox, as a free agent, even more then she was the flotsam of riperts roundabout.

Steve

Scott Walker Reveals His Plan To Repeal & Replace ObamaCare


http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/08/scott-walker-reveals-his-plan-to-repeal.html

MarkO

Let her twist slowly, twist slowly in the wind.

narciso

Ties to the flotsam, although she should appear more with dobbs

narciso

Truly daddy that isn't even Dylan's best toon, or the stones.

Jane

The same FBI guy who investigated Petreaus is investigating Hillary. Lots of people are confident the FBI will not play politics.

They all need armed guards.

squaredance

Does this mean we have to see her yoga Pictures?

With this iin mind, it might be worth a pardon after all.

narciso

Dial the neuralizer to eleven.

hrtshpdbox

Daddy, re: RS's list, it would be odd to find anyone who completely agrees with any survey like that. Still, I can't complain about 1, which is such a great Dylan song. 3 is a terrible choice, of course, and 10 not a worthy selection either (that one just RS's attempts to represent enough blacks, I guess). And while 8 isn't the best Beatles song, it does have that "big" feeling to it (like 6, which is also far from the Beach Boys' best - heck, "Fun Fun
Fun" is better).

Miss Marple

daddy,

Good Vibrations was the #1 song when I was a freshman at IU. I can remember hearing it when having a Coke in the Union Building. When I hear it, I am 18 again.

That, of course, doesn't make it eligible for the Top 10. The rest of those songs are familiar to me but not particularly appreciated.

Jane

They found Rosie's daughter at the NJ shore with her boyfriend. Apparently she is mentally ill - however running away from that bitch might indicate otherwise.

MarkO

"Satisfaction" has to be in the running.

Older, but equally significant, is the Diamonds' "Little Darling."

Dylan is a folksinger, not a rocker.

"Don't Worry Baby" has all the elements required for a great rock song: boy/girl, car, racing, male ego, something bound to go wrong, but, don't worry.

narciso

One of the things that was appealing in man from uncle, was the soundtrack which seems pretty vintage to the period.

narciso

Its a good song, but does it deserve to be in top ten.

Lester bangs (Phillip hoffman) was right, 'rock in roll is dead' rolling stones probably helped kill it.

hrtshpdbox

Diamaonds were a cover band, MarkO, designed to put out white versions of current R&B hits; "Little Darlin" was a Gladiolas song written by their estimable singer Maurice Williams (who also wrote "Stay").

Gussie Fink-Nottle

Does anyone remember Playboy's top musicians? Poll-driven, it always had Clapton tops for guitar (fine) and Ringo Starr tops on bass (seemed odd to me at the time, at least in the early 70s when I was babysitting and reading my employers' more interesting material)?

Jeff Dobbs

narciso:
she should appear more with dobbs

Oh, sure, someone's gonna try and convince me that that refers to Lou. I don't care. I'm not listening.

Sarah, I want you to listen to your good friend, narciso. Call me.

narciso

I walked right into that one, lol.

Jane

I've been following that Lake McDonald webcam for 3 days, waiting for Clarice to make an appearance.

I think I caught her.

Dave (in MA)

Posted by: Dave (in Ma) | August 18, 2015 at 06:04 Pm was supposed to be a picture of Mr. Huma.

Buckeye

BOR: Why does Obama want to raise a billion for his library?

Because Greek Columns are expensive.

hrtshpdbox

Always McCartney on bass, Gussie, but yeah, I remember those all Playboy polls too.

Dave (in MA)
first openly transgender official
Gee, you can hardly even tell.
Janet

White House appoints first openly transgender official

comments -

De plane! De plane!

Obama's slogan should be "Tape back America"

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Jeebus,
That Rolling Stone list ranks number one on my top ten list of worst top ten lists.

Janet

I got the 2nd one wrong (I was going by memory)

It's -

hippiesol • 7 hours ago

...probably just a transvestite who doesn't have the courage to chop it off... just like Bruce. i'm calling BS on this, i say he's just "taping it back". hey i have a new slogan for Obama: Taping America Back! ...

Janet

RJ Chesnut Jr. • 8 hours ago

"Cutting ones nuts off doesn't make you a woman, it makes you a man with no nuts"
--Clint Eastwood.

Daddy on the new iPhone

Hey Jude is as stale and plodding as a lead baloon, i don't think I have ever listened to it start to finish since probably the first time, and it was way too long an uninteresting tune even then. Likewise , I also find lame,

I think Ray Charles America which ,lvinays every ,today toose his show out is ten time a better song than What'd I Say,

I have no problem with the Dylan, Stones, Brian Wilson or Curt Cobain selections, but I think there must be a separate list for tunes from the 30's, 40's, and 50's, as there is no way Hey Jude comes within a hundred miles of half of Bing Crosby's fab jazzy Gershwinesque yodeling,

Dave (in MA)

What I'd like to know is why, when the actual females at work don't wear short miniskirts, the gender transition case seems to be running around done up like a cheap hooker half the time.

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Since we're still on the first page this question may be premature, but would it be possible for Mr. Dobbs to teach Mr. Maguire that one weird trick to link to the last page in the thread?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

Um, because, Dave, regardless of the state of their scrotum, they're nuts?

maryrose

No other candidate has the FBI nipping at their heels
Hil is so over
She just can't believe she did this to herself
Obama because of that picture with Bill will try to remain aloof from the situation and Jarrett is all about punishing our enemies

Gentlejim

Iggy,
Your 8:23 and the Eastwood quote are winners.

maryrose

Iggy
Thank you for that suggestion
I've wanted to ask for that convenient trick as well

narciso

The Rick Wilson/ Ann counter twitterlanche reminds me of the Iran/Iraq war

Agent J

Daddy@ 8:18 pm

I so agree with you on the comparison of the music of the past generations..We so enjoy the 30's and 40's music over the noise of the 90's, 00's and the curent period. (Sirus channel 71 will do for starters')

Listening to some highschool drop out with a stolen computer, in his mother's basement while on drugs, will never be consider music by me.

daddy

I think Ray Charles America which ,lvinays every ,today toose his show out is ten time a better song than What'd I Say,

Repeated a 2nd time in non-iPhone English:

I think Ray Charles "America", which Mark Levin plays every Friday to close out his show, is ten times a better song than "What'd I Say."

Likewise , I also find lame,

Likewise, Lennon's "Imagine", I also find lame.

Dave (in MA)

Ha, Iggy.

daddy

would it be possible for Mr. Dobbs to teach Mr. Maguire that one weird trick to link to the last page in the thread?

Hear, Hear!

Dave (in MA)


Pantsuitgate enters the denial phase.

daddy


Jeebus,
That Rolling Stone list ranks number one on my top ten list of worst top ten lists.

Ha! Exactly why I love this place:)

Jane on Ipad

Dave,

I know your question was a joke but I have an answer. I knew a prominent DC lawyer who was a transvestite. He was connected enough that he got dress stores to open just for him after hours. He was a great guy and the most obnoxious woman I ever met. I kept thinking that if he thought that's what women are like, he was truly barking up the wrong tree.

Hmmm I wonder whatever happened to him?

Some Guy

"he was truly barking up the wrong tree.

Hmmm I wonder whatever happened to him?"


He was taken to nice farm, where he'd have more room to run and roam free, which just isn't practical in a big city like DC. He's so much happier there, trust me dear.

Frau  Igel auch Stachelschwein genannt

Dave (in MA) - I see Hillary! is getting used to wearing orange.

Gussie

Right you are, hrtshpdbox--which makes the choice even more inexplicable.

daddy

Listening to some highschool drop out with a stolen computer, in his mother's basement while on drugs, will never be consider music by me.

Ha! Exactly why I love this place---Take 2!

Great to see you Agent J! Cheers.

Chelsea

I was raised by a toothless pitted hag.

jimmyk on iPhone

Perhaps, based on that 9:00 GIF, this could be Hillary's logo instead of that stupid H-arrow:

"What difference does it make"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Courtesy @topsecretk9)

narciso

Turns out the huntress will be part of the other metwork, one America news

GUS

Rodham needs to suffer. A lot.

narciso

So re durango 'nothing to see here' since they reopened the river.

daddy

Guest on FOX this instance about Platte River, Hillary's E-mail disServer:

David Maritosko (Daily Mail Political Editor)"Platte River Networks is a mom and pop organization...As far as we can tell they have no authorization to possess or process or get anywhere near Classified Material. All signs point right now to this being a Political connection, in that Platte River Networks had some connections to John Hickenlooper, the Gov of Colorado, and may very well have had some connection to Joe Biden around the time of the 2008 Democratic Convention.

GUS

Jane, he now goes by MICHELLE and lives at 1600 PENNSYLANIA AVE.

Jane on Ipad

Actually I bet he's a big wig somewhere, and deep in the closet.

daddy

Ed Henry: "Did you wipe the server clean?"

Hillary: "What, with a cloth or something?"

No, with Monica's Blue Dress with the 'vast right wing conspiracy' stain on it.

narciso

Its odd that someone like Kendall is not a partner, did Greg Craig who was one, and became white house counsel know?

Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki

--He was a great guy and the most obnoxious woman I ever met.--

That is genuinely funny, Jane.
However, you have never met Hillary have you?

GUS

Daddy, you mean the dress with the PRESIDUE on it.

daddy

PRESIDUE

:)

Rick Ballard

I agree with central-cal. That tranny looks like [s]he was rebuilt by AAMCO.

GUS

Rick!! AA BEEEEP BEEEEEEP MCO!! The official tranny shop of GLBT'S everywhere.

A GLBT is not a sandwich. USUALLY.

Miss Marple

Long day.

Nytol!

Jim Miller

daddy- What interests me about that Daily Mail server-in-the-bathroom story is that several former employees can't figure out why Hillary hooked up with Platte River.

It's good to see the Daily Mail is digging into this story, though.

(There must be literally hundreds of firms in the greater New York area that could have provided the same services. And probably dozens that were owned by people with the right politics.

I wonder if choosing a Colorado firm might have been an effort to hide what was going on. For sure, I wouldn't have started to search there, if I was looking for her server.)

maryrose

I am amazed that people who change gender seem to give up that part of themselves that was once attractive
Does Bruce Jenner realize that he looked better as a man
Kaitlyn just doesn't seem authentic

maryrose

Jim Miller
I agree
This is a multi-layered story and we haven't even scratched the surface
Colorado would be a great place to bury a server if you felt guilty about using it
No one would think to look there

daddy

FOX News running a segment on the illegal aliens appointed as City Commissioners of some California town.

I like the idea.

I think I should be appointed a City Commissioner of Guangzhou, China. I don't permanently live there of course, and I'm not Chinese, and I'm not a citizen, and I don't speak the language, and I don't vote or pay taxes, but what the hell, I'm there often enough to know they have some problems with stale beer kegs and pollution and cops putting the screws to peasants defficating in the streets and selling smuggled in Grizzly Bear testicles as strong Penis-wan aphrodisiacs, so I demand to be appointed to the Guangzhou City Council and I promise you I'll do something about those damned stale beer kegs.

narciso

Or in dc proper they have put it with drumheller's outfit or some other trusted firm, likely guccifer would have been able to break that incription so easily.

daddy

Steyn on Hannity on a roll.

narciso

Try doing that in mexico, the residency restrictions are very strict, not to mention citizenship.

Jim Miller

daddy - You really shouldn't tempt me with straight lines like that.

(I automaticallty visualize metaphors. Which, I will admit, often results in me having odd reactions to crude language. Not that yours is crude, but . . . )

daddy

Steyn: The great service Trump has done is to blast us free of the sort of pap of looking at it in political spheres, the idea that somehow Trump is a non-serious candidate, but the serious, substantial candidate, Hillary Clinton, as Chief Foreign Affairs Official of the United States, kept the Confidential business of the United States on a server in some guy's apartment in his bathroom. So if that's what the serious people do, the sooner we hand this country over to the buffoons, the better. That's why Trump is surging. You can't have a 2 Party State where 1 Party is a Liberal Party, and the other Party is basically the Chamber Of Commerce's poodle, because if all you do is exchange George the 3rd for the Chamber of Commerce, the Revolution was a complete waste of time.

lyle

That 9:17 is one for the ages.

DrJ

The WSJ at it again:

Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for president, has been under fire for months after revelations she exclusively used a private email account during her time at the State Department. Department rules discouraged though didn’t prohibit that setup, but use of such a server could make her emails more vulnerable to hackers and may have made it harder for citizens to request documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

Sigh.

narciso

Who is a writing these blanc mange editorials?

DrJ

Narc,

That's not a WSJ editorial -- they are better than that -- it is the news reporting.

narciso

Sorry, I'm guessing Peter Nicholas as the byline. There's at least one category error in the first paragraph

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