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| 20120516 22:35 | badanov |  | ||
| 20120516 22:26 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Damnit OS, I was happier not knowing about the CB90 and that I can't afford one. | ||
| 20120516 22:20 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | @ Hotair, they quote Van Jones: I’m critical of myself, first, and the environmentalists. When the oil spill had happened in the spring of 2010, there was another moment to say, ‘Hold on a second, let’s relook at energy policy in America. Should we be subsidizing companies who are risking our health immediately and in the long-term?’” We didn’t do it. You’ve never seen the environmental movement more quiet during an oil spill. I guarantee you, if John McCain had been President, with that oil spill, or George Bush had been President with that oil spill, I’d have been out there with a sign protesting. I didn’t, because of who the President was. Well, that’s a bad, uh, uh…that’s not good for the earth, it’s not good for the cause, it’s probably not good for the President. It’s certainly not the way we should conduct ourselves. And so, I’m very tough on progressive movements and leaders, including myself, who did not stand on principle, based upon who we looked across and saw as President. It's notable for what Mr. Jones doesn't point out: The Administration ran both the spill response/containment/cleanup and the accident investigation as if to set out to "prove" that oil drilling is both expensive and accident-prone. Protecting the environment took a back seat to producing the oil-drenched birds for the anti-drilling commercials. | ||
| 20120516 22:19 | Pappy | Methinks it won't be as modern a craft, OS. | ||
| 20120516 22:10 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | That day could have gone better. At least I got paid. I think I like the original version of this song the best. I can't listen to it on the ipod without the album cover creeping me out. | ||
| 20120516 21:11 | lotp | Comedy Central riffs on the Obama-inserts-self-into-other-Prez-bios theme: On March 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison became the first president to have his photograph taken. Today, the most dangerous place in America is between President Obama and a live camera. | ||
| 20120516 20:30 | lotp | A bluegrass classic, here by Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs: | ||
| 20120516 19:49 | OldSpook | bayesian spam has really picked up in the past few days in the Oclub. | ||
| 20120516 18:04 | badanov | I think I got hoist by my own petard... | ||
| 20120516 14:00 | 3dc | Glanced at it. Spent the past two days doing yard work and trimming my trees (chain saw) so haven't had a chance to do more. | ||
| 20120516 12:08 | OldSpook | Sorry if thats a bit too much on the Private Navy thread. I was bored. But it is a nice looking patrol boat that's the likely actual bot that's going to be used, and I think Im right on the correction of the article's original author. | ||
| 20120516 11:54 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | 3dc: I sent you something, was a link from autodesk about their new 3d scanning service. I was wondering what you thought. | ||
| 20120516 10:31 | 3dc | AP after that little Greek rant you are going to love that little myth destroying book I sent you. wiki on the book | ||
| 20120516 09:21 | Dale | Robin Trower and Jimmy Hendrix had similar sound. Just something Trower had to live with. | ||
| 20120516 09:01 | Dale | Little mellow; | ||
| 20120516 00:07 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Good night, sapients. | ||
| 20120516 00:05 | Scooter McGruder | Cookie set? | ||
| 20120515 23:53 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Just imagine... someone's going to pay her to be the rebellious teen for the next half decade to decade or so. | ||
| 20120515 22:17 | badanov | Priceless, from Ace: I'm guessing we'll know that Sarah is serious about running for office when Bristol leaves on a year-long tour of Outer Mongolia and Levi Johnson goes missing. | ||
| 20120515 22:10 | OldSpook | McVeigh was a terrorist, but if he had picked the maximum amount of evil domestic people responsible for the loss of liberty in the US, I might have at least a moment of moral conflict. I am not condoning such acts, but it would be "sauce for the goose" to make all the names and faces at that link as public as the Koch brothers are. | ||
| 20120515 16:39 | badanov |  | ||
| 20120515 16:27 | Dale | 49 as I recall. Just before he was to to be treaded to smoked Gar fish. Not good for his brother. | ||
| 20120515 12:35 | Deacon Blues | "Swamp People" star Mitchell Guist died Monday morning after suffering an apparent seizure, according to TMZ. | ||
| 20120515 11:50 | Dale | Figures doesn't it Deaconman. Just when the weather is perfect to dive new fencepost's into the ground. We used the front-end loader bucket. If you want to get any work done try wearing a face mask. I had to wear one when we bailed hay. Yep, when it was stinking hot. You'll find all sorts of uses for that loader. | ||
| 20120515 11:45 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | I know how you feel, I don't have bronchitis right now but I do feel tired. Learnin B Hard. And the last batch of stuff from the heat treaters came out slightly rough and oversize. (It was exact when it went there). SO... back to the shop, with the bearings this time... | ||
| 20120515 11:22 | lotp | Ugh - hope you feel better soon Deacon. | ||
| 20120515 10:11 | Deacon Blues | Morning, All. It's been two weeks since I got my new toy, a front-end loader for my tractor and I still haven't got to play with it. Bad weather on the weekends coupled with bronchitis has keept me in doors. | ||
| 20120514 22:07 | Pappy | Evening from Hell Next to The Park | ||
| 20120514 17:19 | swksvolFF | Peoples Cube is having a home run contest, as always, things cannot be unseen. | ||
| 20120514 14:56 | OldSpook | Look no further than the Dem legislature prior to this one that passed a lot of restrictions on access. And especially Secretary Salazar (spit), the biggest enviro turncoat weasel A-hole ever to take that position. | ||
| 20120514 10:18 | swksvolFF | OK, seen the pic of Obama in the garage. Following the perspective lines and taking into account driveway slope...is el prez really not that tall? Real question for Colorado people. Grand Junction, Black Friday, how it was explained to me (not internet) was that the rules and regulations for Exxon etc. to access the areas, complience for the road construction and waste disposal (not industrial, simple garbage as well) was so strict that it pushed the cost of extraction outside a reasonable if any profit. | ||
| 20120513 21:43 | badanov | Bonus music from Robin Trower: | ||
| 20120513 19:55 | badanov | Some Sunday evening Scott Mckenzie: | ||
| 20120513 18:08 | Pappy | That remark about the Greeks being civilized and all reminds me of an old boss who said, "All well and good, but what are you doing now?" | ||
| 20120513 16:55 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | AP: I've heard statements like that a lot before, a lot of the time from Turks, who usually simultaneously offer no explanation as to how the Turks wound up looking like, for instance, Erdogan rather than like East Asians. | ||
| 20120513 16:47 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | We are on a plane with one jet in flames, the other has fallen off, the co-pilot is standing in the door with a parachute and the media is extolling the virtues of the in-flight movie. It gets worse. The movie is actually "GLEE: The Movie." | ||
| 20120513 14:40 | Alaska Paul | Here are two interesting comments in a thread on the Belmont Club: 9. stoicheion Might have to change my call sign to Rip Van Winkle. The world wants to be like America? I must have taken a long nap. Last I heard, the world hates America. I was so looking forward to America hating them back. Oh well, Maybe when terrorists nuke New York they will get the UN too. More distraction by the media. We are on a plane with one jet in flames, the other has fallen off, the co-pilot is standing in the door with a parachute and the media is extolling the virtues of the in-flight movie. Meanwhile, the Krauts are giving the Greeks ONE more last final this-time-we-really-really-mean-it chance. Squareheads are the last to figure it out. Like my Greek pen-pal said. “Greece was a civilized nation back when the Germans were painting themselves blue and poking each other with pointy sticks. We had indoor plumbing before they figured out that crapping in the same cave they lived in wasn’t such a good idea.” All the central banks are tied together. Once the Germans figure out the the Greeks are NOT going to pay them back, German’s central bank will collapse, pulling down the EU. Once the EU central bank collapses the Fed won’t be far behind. Then everybody goes. America will come through the fire stronger then ever. May 12, 2012 - 4:00 pm Link to this Comment 10. Roughcoat 9. stoicheion I would point out to your Greek friend that he is, like the vast majority of Greeks, in no way related to the Greeks of the Classical, Archaic, and Bronze Ages. Those Greeks, the true Greeks, died out several centuries ago in all but a few places. The blood of Ancient Greece, apart from a few droplets perhaps, no longer flows through the veins of most modern Greeks. Most modern Greeks are descended from Bulgars and Turks–which, not coincidentally, is why most modern Greeks look like Bulgars and Turks: swarthy or olive-complected, black hair, black eyes. The ancient Greeks were commonly if not universally fair-skinned and often fair-haird, or red-haired (e.g., the Atreides brothers, Agamemnon and Menelaus, the latter given the epithet “Red-Haired). Blond hair was idealized because it was fairly common (Achilles was a straw-head) and blue or grey or green eyes were normative. Modern Greeks share a language with the ancients and that’s about all. When the Byzantine empire was still strong the ethnic Greeks of antiquity nearly vanished from the Greek mainland, being replaced by Bulgars (among others); most of the ancient Greek peoples then lived in Anatolia, until a concerted effort by Byzantine emperors was undertaken to repopulate the mainland with ethnic Greeks. The Greeks of today are piggy-backing on the heritage of the ancients, much like the so-called Macedonians of today fancy themselves descendants of the ancient Makedenoi people who produced Philip and Alexander. So when Greeks tell me that they were civilized when the Germans, e.g., were painting themselves blue, I am motivated to counter this hubristic assertion by pointing out that whilst the Germans were painting themselves blue, the forefathers of the modern Greeks were picking lice off their bodies in squalid sheepskin yurts in the wilds of east-central Asia as members of barbarian Turkic tribes. Reminds me of that famous scene in True Romance when the character played by Dennis Hopper rather rudely instructs the character played by Christopher Walken on how Sicilians came to be Sicilians. This thing concerning who the Greeks are is a pet peeve of mine. I’ve been to Greece many times and have mostly enjoyed that country and its exceedingly hospitable people. But I have also endured more ignorant anti-American rants from Greeks than any other people–excepting, of course, the Germans. Some push-back is certainly warranted. May 12, 2012 - 4:35 pm Link to this Comment | ||
| 20120513 14:05 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | I'm really tired this weekend for some reason. Heading off to the hospital and then maybe to the office. | ||
| 20120513 13:45 | Pappy | Morning from Next to The Park. One from wretchard: The [Ay Pee] says people around the world are badly disappointed that President Obama failed to live up to their expectations. Somalians waited for him to bring prosperity to Mogadishu. Europeans hoped he’d be more supportive of a failing European socialism. Muslims were astonished at his support for gay marriage while waiting for his rapproachment to Islam. There is surprise that his repudiation of the policies of his ‘hated predecessor’ may now result in restarting genocide. The Chinese are disappointed he still supports Japan, while the Japanese are sorry at his submissiveness to China. In other words, the Obama’s international supporters expected him to do what a domestic supporter hoped he would do: pay her rent and fuel bills. Maybe that’s what happens when a person runs as a ‘blank screen’ on which everyone can project their expectations. Some of these inflated expectations are not Obama’s fault. They are not even Axelrod’s. They are the consequence of a journalism that sees politics as celebrity drama. Most of the world was once and in many parts still is ruled by strongmen who were virtual kings. So to describe the President in terms of Robert Mugabe is something many understand. The post World War 2 “imperial Presidency” is now dangerously close to becoming a global godhood. That is a job that no man, however competent, can ever fill without disappointing his global constituents. | ||
| 20120513 13:38 | Pappy | Nice, AP. | ||
| 20120513 09:06 | lotp | A reminder that you can always email Fred via the link on the front page if you're having problems, as well: fred-at-rantburg-dot-com | ||
| 20120513 07:41 | Bright Pebbles | If you have any problems with your PC also try http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner | ||
| 20120513 07:38 | Grunter | That is lovely music, Paul. | ||
| 20120513 01:22 | Alaska Paul | Here is Sjofn and I at a house concert where we opened for David Dondero. Even the dog got into the act. | ||
| 20120513 00:58 | 3dc | Will it be real this time for the toy autobartender worked on? | ||
| 20120512 20:51 | Deacon Blues | Got pulled over in my Smart Car this afternoon. I got going a little too fast going down hill. He said I was doing 72. I sead really? Are you sure? He said yes. I said, "I didn't know I could prddal that fast. He laughed and gave me a warning. | ||
| 20120512 18:46 | Bright Pebbles | Next time anyone has problems... Best to post a) your IP. b) Your browser and version. c) your OS d) any mods to the browser (adblock ghostery etc). | ||
| 20120512 17:50 | swksvolFF | Did anyone catch the "Pink smoke rises from the White House chimney" remark? Some truly believe he is Collectives Child on Earth. | ||
| 20120512 16:38 | trailing wife | Gromky, you are a long-time Rantburger. I promise that you would not personally be banned without very fair warning, and very likely me arguing openly against it. It proceeded in exactly that fashion for Aris, Zenster, and a number of straight out trolls that I sincerely and mistakenly thought capable of learning, despite the sage advice of those more aware of the depths to which some happily sink. Edit: bringing the issue to our attention is the right thing, of course. Fred's been working under the hood to rebuild the engine (or something like that -- I hereby admit stretching that particular metaphor well beyond my technical understanding!) and all sorts of interesting and unexpected things happen, often enough involving the uncaging of old trolls. I assume the reverse happened to you, because it wasn,t long ago that you're comments were coming through loud and clear in the 'Burg. | ||
| 20120512 16:18 | gromky | OK, well, despite hitting "submit" several times and getting nothing in response, and while doing so, seeing others' comments appearing...what conclusion would the rational man draw? Seeing that on previous occasions, my Chinese IP has indeed been blocked from commenting by Rantburg. Only to find out later that, "yeah, that IP range was blocked a few years ago for spamming, there's your problem right there." Sure, I should go elsewhere for my daily ration of WoT news. Oh, wait, such does not exist. Hence, I'm here. Rantburg chose me, not the other way around. Starting my own site isn't an option. There's no way I could attract the high-quality articles that appear nowhere else, as well as the highly knowledgeable commenters. Rantburg U? I'm a graduate. I learn more from the inline automated snark about Karachi or Puntland or Dagestan than I ever would reading the mainstream media or any other blog. I don't know, maybe I'm out of line. My philosophy as a cantankerous Texan is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." A mild rebuke from trailing wife might as well be a withering put-down from a lesser administrator. | ||
| 20120512 14:13 | lotp | Pappy - yes. | ||
| 20120512 12:54 | badanov | Possible that network is blocking a range ( a data center) with a prior profile for hosting spammers. | ||
| 20120512 12:13 | Pappy | That specific range isn't blocked by us Someone else is tired of Han-Man's chronic complaining? | ||
| 20120512 10:37 | badanov | Politics has come to this. Ann Romney's $900 blouse. | ||
| 20120512 10:16 | badanov | Gromky, I have some very, very bad news for you, and for me for that matter. That specific range isn't blocked by us. | ||
| 20120512 09:43 | badanov | Wow: I did not know this. They work telenovela actors like dogs. The telenovela Simplemente Maria ran for seven months, filmed 150 episodes. That's humpin' it! | ||
| 20120512 09:28 | lotp | gromky, the Interwebs are a vast area of opportunity for you to run your own site if you don't find this one up to your standards. | ||
| 20120512 08:39 | Shipman | NO! Say it ain't so DeaconMan. Hope they bury him in a white coffin with 2 blue racin stripes. 289 HiPo4Evr | ||
| 20120512 07:36 | Deacon Blues | Carroll Shelby has died. Go little Cobra. | ||
| 20120512 02:46 | gromky | The point is: it was banned years ago. Whatever spammers were on that subnet have long since moved on. It's not a mobile device, it's residential. If it was a mobile range at some time, well that just proves my point about being woefully out of date. FWIW I have run firewalls, both corporate and ISP before. | ||
| 20120512 01:25 | Shipman | Man up thar Gomky, I been bannified for years, it's not so bad, you will learn to live for the rare few moments BadMan drops his guard. :) | ||
| 20120511 23:43 | trailing wife | Gromky dear, it is unkind as well as unwise to assume that things that annoy you are deliberately aimed in your direction. Please keep such assumptions to yourself in the future, restraining yourself to reporting the facts. Thank you. | ||
| 20120511 23:23 | badanov | Gromky: I s'pect you've never dealt with firewall rules especially on a live server. It ain't like clicking a button to rectify an error. That said, your specific rage was blocked because of spammers. I s'pect you are unhappy because you can't use your mobile device to access Rantburg. The fact is that that range that was blocked was because it was a segment fraught with dangers from spamming mobile devices. It was an easy decision. That said we will be making every effort to unblock the range as soon as possible. If that is not good enough, well, it will have to do. | ||
| 20120511 23:05 | badanov | Some Friday night Psychostick (NSFW): | ||
| 20120511 21:33 | Pappy | having decided to hold their convention in what's essentially become enemy territory Should prove interesting whether or not protestors show up... Hurray to administrators for keeping bans in place for years without checking them With any luck, they'll extend it to the O-Club. Oh, did I say that out loud? | ||
| 20120511 20:58 | badanov | Mexican Drug War pr0n An HK G-35 5.56mm assault rifle with iron sights and a folding stock | ||
| 20120511 19:19 | Dale | Snowy its the simple things in life. I have been looking for a chance to use the word bonafied. I have been watching too much TV. My Walter Mitty adventure. | ||
| 20120511 17:37 | swksvolFF | And if the horse is the one who kicked over the lantern, well I welcome all converts or just quitters, but com'on man. | ||
| 20120511 17:34 | swksvolFF | During my nightly pop culture re-education programming, I noticed a show tmz which does celebrity gossip was also poking fun at the Obama gay marriage coming out announcement. The Critic, Mr. Lovitz, I think gets a lot right and does not realize it. Have a dream, be creative, work hard, make your way, American Dream, accomplish and get the colon taxed out of ya. I don't think he has looked around at the d party in a while, an always has been. To continue to support that party leaves me little sympathy if he does not genuinely consider dropping it. The horse dragged out of the burning barn just to give a knowing look and run back in. | ||
| 20120511 15:40 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Gromky, there's two people that can fix it, one's at work and the other is still recovering from whatever-they-had. Badanov will probably be off shift in about three hours, and it'll probably be fixed then. | ||
| 20120511 15:32 | gromky | Well, apparently my entire IP address range has been shitcanned and my legit comments can't get through. Hurray to administrators for keeping bans in place for years without checking them. 112.12.226.* and 112.12.225.* if anyone is interested, and I rather doubt it. | ||
| 20120511 15:11 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | That's the sort of midlife crisis you can have when you have money to throw away on stuff like Hawgs and don't have any real problems, Dale. | ||
| 20120511 15:10 | Dale | I would suggest a big hog and ponytail. That sounds like a bonafied midlife crisis. | ||
| 20120511 14:56 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | I had the midlife crisis last year. I bought a station wagon. | ||
| 20120511 14:50 | gromky | I can't post a comment. Somebody fix it. | ||
| 20120511 12:02 | Dale | Forget the socks. Think about it. You will be hip. Remember Miami Vice Crockett and Tubs. I have seen some of the wealthy hip management guys doing it. Good thing to start off a good midlife crisis. | ||
| 20120511 12:01 | gromky | M-16 Cooking Off Rounds After Full Auto Fire | ||
| 20120511 11:50 | Deacon Blues | Snowman, go er it! Wear un-matched socks. No one will notice. (experience talking here) | ||
| 20120511 10:35 | swksvolFF | Long week, hope all are doing well. The nnonnan shot glass pic, had me thinking I need a pic of the WH staff serving beer pong, with the slogoneer Foreward! on the footer. | ||
| 20120511 09:55 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | lotp: in any other similar situation we'd recognize the press' behavior as a mania driving an investment bubble. We need to figure out a way to make money by doing the equivalent of shorting tulips. | ||
| 20120511 09:49 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Here's some Anna Nalick while I try to find a pair of matching socks. | ||
| 20120511 09:31 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | And a thought occured to me: a lot of recent democrat politicking is based around their _need_ to back away from having decided to hold their convention in what's essentially become enemy territory. | ||
| 20120511 09:28 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Seen @ AoSHQ comments: Dick Morris is as right as he is wrong. He's like a modern-day Criswell, more about self-promoting with outlandish predictions than about in-depth analysis. | ||
| 20120511 09:14 | Thing From Snowy Mountain | Morning. Dad's back in surgery again, planned this time. I'm not in the mood to take anything seriously... | ||
| 20120511 09:13 | Pappy | Ah, but has the One ever scored fifteen holes-in-one on the gold course? Yet? | ||
| 20120511 08:52 | Dale | That JP Morgan mess has only just begun. They speak of two billion in losses but it is much bigger than than that. Derivatives again. Too big to fail bailouts and perks for the management. The money will just disappear. White collar crime that knows how to work the system with the blessing of a few politicians. Wall Street loves this administration. | ||
| 20120511 08:18 | lotp | Tim Stanley at TelegraphHere’s the problem with the press coverage of Barack Obama: the mainstream media is so overwhelmed by his charisma that they often miss the important details. Every decision, speech, policy statement or impromptu visit to the bathroom is presented as a piece of “history” – the dawn of a new era. The Prez could go seal-clubbing and much of the media would see it as a new epoch for winter sports. “Barack Obama Becomes the First President to Kill Six Seals in Under One Minute,” the New York Times would proudly report, while Twitter would be all abuzz with how hot he looks in snow shoes. | ||
| 20120511 04:12 | Shipman | Deadly dull. Wrong season. |
