10:14 – It was 30.3F (-1C) when I took Colin out this morning, but for once the winds were calm. There was a slight blizzard, with an occasional flake or two visible. We’re to get 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 cm) over the next 24 hours, down from yesterday’s forecast 2 to 4 inches.
Using an invite from @SteveF, I signed up yesterday evening for Gab, a non-prog alternative to twitter. I’m not sure I’ll ever use it. When I tried to log in just now the site was down. I wish them the best because they make free speech their priority, unlike Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the prog social-networking sites.
More stuff around the house today. Barbara wants me to install a new shower head we bought. Usually, she doesn’t trust me with plumbing.
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Gab had some scheduled downtime this weekend for a system upgrade or something. Didn’t pay attention to what or when, just saw a message when I first logged in yesterday evening.
I wonder if Twitter was prescient when they chose their name. But how could they have known that they’d end up with such a huge percentage of twits?
And before anyone else says it, yes, they should have named themselves Twatter.
Houston’s Emergency Management office is sending out daily notices of Super sports Bowl activity. They list the major events and where they are taking place, and any street closures. Also remind people of several safety things, like “See something, Say somthing.” Which is a (TM) of NYC Metro of all things.
This is definitely in the “doing things right” column.
nick
Doing things right? Well, only if you don’t count their initial massive error in hosting that event.
Yes, but can’t turn back time. We’re stuck with it.
n
Couldn’t you just cancel it and tell them to take their crap elsewhere?
If I were king…..
n
Speaking of Twatter, useless celebuturds are trying to use it to rally their “followers” to protest President tRumps mooslim ban. I’m sure, when eight people show up, the MSM will rave about the unheard of massive crowds. Judges are tinkering with the EO, a good way to get roughed up on the way to the bench. Libturdians. Yuck.
Twitchy comment on stupid Madeleine Albright:
Former U.S. Secretary Of State Madeline Albright: I’m ‘Ready To Register As Muslim’ To Fight Trump
What, no hashtag. That would show us.
Commenter: “Where do I register as a Mooslim, at the DMV?”
Couldn’t you just cancel it and tell them to take their crap elsewhere?
Football? In Texas? Not happening.
New *high school* stadium projects in Texas call in HOK as architects. The same company designed all of the new pro stadiums built within recent memory.
In the Northwest, it was soccer. My son had to drop out of community leagues after he turned 10 because all of the teams were “clubs”, admission by tryout only since college scouts worked all the way down to middle school games with scholarships at stake even at that age.
It’s all just another gigantic racket. High skool and college sports, pro sports, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I still stupidly watch NFL games and actually go to minor league baseball games but I’m slowly weaning myself off it all. It’s not as easy as cold-turkeying heroin, ciggies or booze. Can’t. Just. Stop.
A few snow flakes or flurries seem to have drifted north here from Sparta and that’s about it for today. And that’s the forecast for the next week; light flurries, temps in the 20s during the day, and single digits at night. Humdrum.
Back to a variety of household chores and projects. Exciting.
Fighting. Well hockey anyways. See that pic of the Bieber getting slammed to the glass last night,
http://www.businessinsider.com/justin-bieber-go-boom-in-nhl-all-star-photo-2017-1
now that’s entertainment
I wonder how many really big hockey players there have been over the years; our son played it in high skool and I watched a few games; he’s as big as I am and it took him the length of the rink to get up to speed, and he’d take out three or four opposition players at a crack. But as for finesse and grace and acrobatics? Nope.
I’m holding out for a celeb hockey game in O Kanaduh wherein that commie Trudeau twerp gets slammed really hard into the boards and then again into the ice.
Watching 24 hr at Daytona car race now.
No drivers given university scholarships whereby they could earn 0 credits.
Any “scholarship” outside of the handful of desirable universities and non-STEM is worthless anyway.
And from The Week’s Insanity Department:
http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_takimag_january_29_2017/print#axzz4XBPhBhag
Nice little summary in there of the stuff tRump got done in his first fucking week!
Meanwhile my brothers down in MA and I are having a grand old time watching libtard heads explode. What a beautiful sight and sound!
@RBT, I am sure that you already have seen this but if not, “Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector”
https://xkcd.com/1791/
Oh my !
It’s true. I’ve been observing since I was in elementary school, about 95% of that with a reflector, and I’ve never once spotted a Space Vampire.
Tonight, we had more massive demonstrations, nation-wide, against the pardoning decrees wanted by the crooks in power.
Greater turnouts than last Sunday, with 50,000 in Bucharest.
Here in Sibiu we were about 5,000, and this time, we have marched longer, leaving from and returning to the old center:
http://www.turnulsfatului.ro/2017/01/29/video-oamenii-incep-sa-plece-acasa-scandeaza-iohannis-iohannis-in-fata-primariei/
Next week, the crooks should decide about the decrees. But I don’t think they got scared enough to back up significantly.
Regarding professional athletes and their attitudes:
Tattoos Galore: MMA, Wrasslin’, Boxin’, Basketball, Football, Soccer
None: Tennis & Golf
Can’t Tell: Race Car Drivers, Bull Riders
How can he see some things so clearly and still be a hilllarity supporter? Enough of one that he used a whole strip as a get out the vote?
n
“But I don’t think they got scared enough to back up significantly.”
Perhaps more raucous demonstrations and other agitprop exercises are in order. May I suggest some inspiration and maybe some ideas found here:
http://starvingthemonkeys.com/category/leech-city/
I fully intend to begin implementing some of them up here as I acquire more intel and meatspace info in this AO. I already know a state rep from the town adjacent to the south, fellow ‘Nam vet, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lt. Colonel-retired, Central Highlands. And I know one of our own local Dem guys who is/has been the animal control officer and selectman.
“Tattoos Galore”
Yup. And on our underclass WHITEY peeps up here, too. You don’t see it very often on certain WHITEY NFL players, though, mainly the QBs and their WHITEY receivers. The others go full bore at it. And of course very big with gangsta types.
No one in my family has any, nor in wife’s, so far as I know. My dad had his initials on his arm from his Coast Guard days but when he got home in 1945 he caught holy hell from his parents.
Got the Tecsun PL880 hooked up and now I gotta find my long shortwave antenna wire around here someplace. Was just up in the attic and boy, I’ve got my work cut out for me this winta. Well, as they say, idle hands are the Devil’s workshop…
And if you hadda pick a country to live in right about now, this one ain’t half bad:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/27/217233/new-data-shows-85-of-humans-live-under-a-corrupt-government
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/28/2156246/who-hacked-the-washington-dc-police-surveillance-cameras
Got that, Mr. Lynn? When you get ransomwared, simply remove the sw and reboot!
Eugen (Romania) – We see you are in the thick of it and not afraid to stand up to power for truth. I salute you for your fortitude. Too many here would happily take the dole and shut up rather than take a risk. Stay safe my friend.
What H. Combs hath said—+1,000
Some funny stuff could be happening in the next few months:
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/a-color-revolution-is-under-way-in-the-united-states
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/the-saker-a-color-revolution-is-under-way-in-the-united-states/
Some funny stuff could be happening in the next few months:
We should start our own revolution. It will feature blue “cockhats” and a cool hashtag. Something like #coolcockhats. I’m sure Mr. SteveF could come up with something better.
Actually what we need is a counter-revolution, as it is the revolutionaries who’ve taken control of much of the government and cultural institutions. We are basically the Whites against the Reds, like the Russian Civil War. The Whites lost that war, but we won’t lose ours.
How can he see some things so clearly and still be a hilllarity supporter? Enough of one that he used a whole strip as a get out the vote?
How can he, Randall Munroe, see things so clearly and be a “climate change can and must be controlled” supporter ?
https://xkcd.com/1732/
To me, a professional thermodynamicist, the hockey stick projection is barking mad nonsense. There are tremendous energies and phase changes involved with absolutely no experience to base the projections on.
And if you hadda pick a country to live in right about now, this one ain’t half bad:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/27/217233/new-data-shows-85-of-humans-live-under-a-corrupt-government
We, the USA, just had a peaceful change of power at the top on the normal regularly scheduled basis. Not many countries can say that. Usually there are guns, cannons, guillotines, execution squads, and small to large bombs involved.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/28/2156246/who-hacked-the-washington-dc-police-surveillance-cameras
Got that, Mr. Lynn? When you get ransomwared, simply remove the sw and reboot!
Yeah, they threw away all of their data !
Actually what we need is a counter-revolution, as it is the revolutionaries who’ve taken control of much of the government and cultural institutions. We are basically the Whites against the Reds, like the Russian Civil War. The Whites lost that war, but we won’t lose ours.
I would call the guy that we just moved to Washington, DC a revolutionary. He is certainly being accused of such by the losers.
So, a hotel in Austria got hacked and the crackers took over the electronic key system and locked all the door. They had to pay a 1500 Euro ransom in Bitcoins.
Usually there are guns, cannons, guillotines, execution squads, and small to large bombs involved.
Don’t forget the pussy hats!
Do you have a Nobel Prize? No? Then I think you better just sit down and let Al Gore explain how the science is settled. Unlike you, Al Gore has a Nobel Prize, so he knows better than you about everything.
Yep the pussy march was an astounding display of cluelessness and ‘useful idiotry’.
50+ of the organizing groups- Soros funded. Way to do the old
white male’svampire’s bidding ladies.Celebration of a convicted murderer and sexual torturer. Way to go ladies.
Support those who support sharia law, which would absolutely ban you from ever speaking up again. Way to go ladies.
Celebrate and give voice to washed up old whores, who fantasize about blowing up the white house, and promise to blow millions of strangers. Talk about empowerment, sell sex to males for NOTHING real in return. Way to go ladies.
Absolutely astounding.
nick
You guys see that NYC is looking for vendors to do facial recognition, matched with license plates, and linked to social media posts?
nick
“I would call the guy that we just moved to Washington, DC a revolutionary.”
Nope. He is a counter-revolutionary, and is undoing what the previous revolutionaries undertook to do, i.e., the destruction of the nation and country. We hope and pray he continues doing so, but I also hope and pray that his security, whether private or SS, is up to the task. I also hope and pray that retired Generals Flynn and Mattis survive long enough to do their work. But in the end I realize that it’s still a corporate fascist oligarchy, and like RBT and The Who have said, meet the new boss, etc.
“Absolutely astounding.”
I can add nothing to Mr. Nick’s fine summary of the march. +1,000
Nicely done, sir.
And on the National Administrator’s first week:
http://melaniephillips.com/media-war-donald-trump/
“To me, a professional thermodynamicist, the hockey stick projection is barking mad nonsense. There are tremendous energies and phase changes involved with absolutely no experience to base the projections on.”
Roger that! And huge 10-4!
lynn, I too, am a professional thermodynamicist. Consequently, I agree with you 100%!!
This global warming nonsense is a total fraud. I, also, do not believe in this hockey stick abominable, atrocious, and asinine analogy.
OTOH, I will be using my tennis racquet Tuesday morning.
BTW, where did AlGore get his degree in whatever?
From the internet. That’s why he invented it.
Hey, I resemble that remark. I bought my MD and both my Ph.D.’s on the Internet, and they’re just as good as Gore’s.
BTW, where did AlGore get his degree in whatever?
Harvard. He dropped out of both the Divinity and Law schools at Vanderbilt.
So, a hotel in Austria got hacked and the crackers took over the electronic key system and locked all the door. They had to pay a 1500 Euro ransom in Bitcoins.
I do not understand the need to connect all of these devices to the wild, wild west of intertubes. There are some really bad people out there who have nothing better to do than to hack your stuff and make your life a living hell. Especially if they can get some bitcoin out of you.
Algore’s roommate at Hahvud was Tommy Lee Jones.
Algore is a fellow ‘Nam vet. Yup. Went over as a Stars & Stripes Army correspondent and had a minder stay with him for his whole eight-month tour.
I should get an MA and PhD on the net, too. I wonder if they have any in medieval epic poetry…oh wait–I saw that movie. Never mind.
And closing out the weekend with a bit of humor:
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/women-s-march-in-dc-leaves-millions-of-needy-cats-unattended-t19221.html
@Lynn: “To me, a professional thermodynamicist, the hockey stick projection is barking mad nonsense.”
Glad to hear you say that. I like to think I have good engineering instincts, and I’ve always thought it smelled. Models are meaningless – I’ve build lots of models that perfectly matched past data and were still useless for making predictions. It’s all too easy to put your biases into a model as well.
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I find it amusing to tap into the various filter bubbles in the Internet. I note that Soylent (and, to a lesser extent, Slashdot) are moving generally towards skepticism, and generally towards the alt-right. Surprisingly, ArsTechnica is still very progressive/SJW (though the purely technical stuff is good); the comments are especially extreme.
Then we get places like Slate, which seem to be in an alternate universe. Trump’s (entirely, obviously legal) executive orders are headlined as “blatantly unconstitutional”, although they somehow never explain which part of the Constitution it is supposed to violate. Pretty hard to take, because their reality and my reality have so very few points of contact.
On the other extreme, we have Vox Day’s blog. While I agree with lots of his politics, his religious extremism is weird, and very much at odds with his otherwise well-reasoned positions. “Well-reasoned” doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with all of them, but his positions are rational and justified. Which is better than places like Slate, where reasoning is entirely absent.
Add numerous tech review sites to the alternate universe.
Uber steps in to fill a transportation gap when NYC taxis boycott pickups at JFK airport due to President tRump’s EOs. Libturdians want you to boycott scummy Uber because of this.
I call it capitalism. Every Gay guy I know almost squee’s when he takes his smartypants phone out and summons Uber. Don’t think this boycott is going anywhere.
@Lynn: “To me, a professional thermodynamicist, the hockey stick projection is barking mad nonsense.”
Glad to hear you say that. I like to think I have good engineering instincts, and I’ve always thought it smelled. Models are meaningless – I’ve build lots of models that perfectly matched past data and were still useless for making predictions. It’s all too easy to put your biases into a model as well.
I am not a climate scientist. However, no one that I have seen is drawing an energy and material balance around the Earth. They are taking too many shortcuts and assumptions for me. For instance, is the CO2 absorption of infrared maxed out at some point (saturated) ? I’ve been told that I am an idiot for asking that question which immediately told me that the other person was uncomfortable with the question. The AGW crowd typically resorts to name calling immediately (climate denier instead of climate skeptic to raise images of Holocaust Deniers) which raises my suspicions.
“The
AGW crowdLeft typically resorts to name calling immediately (climate denier instead of climate skeptic to raise images of Holocaust Deniers) which raises my suspicions.”FIFY
I pointed that out to someone at work last week. He’s the one who constantly brings up Trump in the team IM chatroom, and then when someone (usually I) point out factual or logical flaws or the fact that his opinion and preferences are very nice but hardly binding on anyone else he’s very quick to drop the racism or “sounds just like a Nazi” or “religious bigot” bombs. He wasn’t pleased when I pointed out that that trait alone paints him as a modern-day liberal, incapable of using logic or considering the possibility that people can hold different opinions without being evil. (He also wasn’t pleased when I suggested that, as he’s clearly obsessed with Trump, he should volunteer to be Trump’s shower boy.)
The particular insults were amusing, too. He said one time that I must have suffered so, growing up an upper-middle-class white boy. Upper middle class? Me? Try “so poor we didn’t always have food”. Also, white? Me? Well, sorta but not really. Racist? Don’t think so, seein’ as neither of my wives was white, though one was more Amerind than I am. And racism doesn’t apply to Trump’s EO on keeping out citizens of various countries. And finally, religious bigot? Where did that come from, unless it’s a natural part of me being a right-winger (which I’m not; I’m a classic liberal). I’m tolerant of and amused by all religions; my intent to kill members of those religions is based on their words and actions rather than their faith.
What a riot! I’d love to be a fly on the wall as you dissect foolz like that. What a fuckin’ tool that guy is, and his ilk. Useful fucking idiots is what they, who can only repeat the pablum fed to them by MSM sources like MSNBC and CNN.
I’m not all white, either, and also certainly not upper-class; more like lower middle-class and working class. I note also that the most hateful, vicious and violence-tending assholes on the Left are usually way upper-class, like the former Weathermen and SDS and the derps we see now leading similar organizations. This seems to be true also of a lot of musloid terrorists; former engineers, doctors, etc.
I’m enough feather indian to not have much facial hair, but not enough for some of that sweet sweet casino money.
The left is a bunch of poop flinging monkeys. They hop around, screech and throw shit, and when challenged, return to their safe space up in the tree. Also like monkeys, they’ll tear one of their own apart, limb from limb, if he betrays them.
n
Excellent analogy, Mr. nick.
I’m not enough feather Indian, I guess, because I have no shortage of facial hair and can grow a beard in a week. Plus the added attraction of hair shooting out of my ears and nostrils unless I clip it all every other day. WTF? No one told me about that. Bastards.
At this point, since I won’t be allowed any casino ownership, what about knocking a couple of them off? What’s the security like? I turn this discussion over to you, MrAtoz….hep us out, willya?
Casino floor security is unarmed. I do see armed security when moving piles of cash. Who knows what they have at the vault.
The left is a bunch of poop flinging monkeys.
I’ll take the poop over Nancy “fukstik” Pelosi singing anyday. I hope the 2018 election is a massacre for these lying, scumsucking, cretins.
-sniffsniff- Do I smell a new topic of discussion the next time Mr Tard brings up Trump or stupid Republican voters or racism? Why, yes I do!
The Libturdians are very active this week:
‘Get my cat ears going here’: Travis County judge dons Women’s March ‘pussy hat’ in courtroom
It is beyond belief this woman is a judge. The comments are high-lar-i-ous.
They’re a bunch of goddamned shit-for-brains scumbag commie fuckwads and clowns and need killin’.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/government-repair-kit/
WRT “bunch of poop flinging monkeys”:
They also frequently pleasure themselves (particularly when there is an audience) and some have big bulbous multi-colored butts. And don’t forget the fleas.
Bananas anyone?
Almost forgot, they also do not shave their armpits and legs.
“https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/government-repair-kit/”
I see that the length of the nooses is set for short-drop hanging. I wonder if that was intentional.
Good eye!