Saturday Night Acoustic Excellence: Punch Brothers, “I Blew It Off”

An American share of 21st century stress
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The sun hits the back of my neck
Through a crack in the window shade
I blow it off
I blow it off
‘cause I keep outside
In the eyes and ears
Of friends I’ve never met
I blow it off
I blow it off

There’s nothin’ to say
That couldn’t just as well be sent
I’ve got an American share
Of 21st century stress

Your trouble vibrates the table
Interrupts my reverie
I blow it off
I blow it off
‘cause if it’s that bad
It ain’t gettin’ better
Face to face with me
So I blow it off
I blow it off

There’s nothin’ to say
That couldn’t just as well be sent
I’ve got an American share
Of 21st century stress

Go ahead and bloody up your knuckles
Knockin’ at my door
I’ll blow ‘em off
I’ll blow em off

‘Cause there’s nothin’ to say
That couldn’t just as well be sent
We’ve all got an American share
Of 21st century stress

See the oceans rise and leave the nations
Cryin’ at heaven’s door
I blew it off
I blew it off

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318 comments
1 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 7, 2015 7:17:50pm

So, UpChuck posts a story on his blog asking about Clinton’s IT guy, because an IT “expert” suggested that the email server is probably an Exchange server, which requires all kinds of maintenance and backups and stuff, so Clinton’s IT guy must be a MSCE living in Chappaqua.

True fact: I maintained an Exchange server for several years. I’m not a MSCE. Also, too. It could have been a Linux box.

2 BigPapa  Mar 7, 2015 7:54:46pm

Finally got to see John Lewis’ speech introducing Barack Obama at Selma today. Couldn’t help but be emotional and feel the weight and importance of the moment.

Epic introduction and speech, really a great moment that should resonate for some time.

3 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 7, 2015 7:58:31pm

Humm…. Charles takes sick, and the threads get very quiet. Perhaps you are all products of his imagination, and I’m one of the very few who are from the “outside”?????

/cue_twilight_zone_music

4 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 7, 2015 7:59:21pm

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

So, UpChuck posts a story on his blog asking about Clinton’s IT guy, because an IT “expert” suggested that the email server is probably an Exchange server, which requires all kinds of maintenance and backups and stuff, so Clinton’s IT guy must be a MSCE living in Chappaqua.

True fact: I maintained an Exchange server for several years. I’m not a MSCE. Also, too. It could have been a Linux box.

I’m Spartacus Clinton’s IT guy.

5 teleskiguy  Mar 7, 2015 8:00:28pm

Hey all!

Charles, hope you feel better. A couple of my co-workers have come down with a nasty cold as well.

And now Spring Break is in full force, haven’t seen that many people in the ski shop since Christmas.

6 BigPapa  Mar 7, 2015 8:01:34pm

No, I’m Clinton’s IT guy. I’m not MCSE, more like WTFITS and OFFS.

7 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 7, 2015 8:03:03pm

re: #5 teleskiguy

Hey all!

Charles, hope you feel better. A couple of my co-workers have come down with a nasty cold as well.

And now Spring Break is in full force, haven’t seen that many people in the ski shop since Christmas.

We had our skiers a couple weeks ago (Birkiebiner) and this week was the fat tire bike race over the same course. The bikes make more sense to me but then the last time I was on ski’s was for Uncle Sam ~30 years ago and I blew out my knee…

8 A Cranky One  Mar 7, 2015 8:07:18pm

re: #3 RealityBasedSteve

Humm…. Charles takes sick, and the threads get very quiet. Perhaps you are all products of his imagination, and I’m one of the very few who are from the “outside”?????

/cue_twilight_zone_music

I’m personality number 1546
10 RealityBasedSteve  Mar 7, 2015 8:16:45pm

Clothes are tumbling around in the dryer, the gatos are fed and watered, I think I’m going to go read for a while and then call it a night. Going to go help out with the Wounded Warrior program again tomorrow.

Have a good evening, and don’t forget to set your clocks ahead.

RBS

11 Decatur Deb  Mar 7, 2015 8:17:44pm

re: #10 RealityBasedSteve

Clothes are tumbling around in the dryer, the gatos are fed and watered, I think I’m going to go read for a while and then call it a night. Going to go help out with the Wounded Warrior program again tomorrow.

Have a good evening, and don’t forget to set your clocks ahead.

RBS

Read that as “gators are fed and watered”. I am too long in Alabama.

12 teleskiguy  Mar 7, 2015 8:19:56pm
13 A Cranky One  Mar 7, 2015 8:20:17pm

re: #11 Decatur Deb

Read that as “gators are fed and watered”. I am too long in Alabama.

I did too, and only lived in Alabama for a couple of years. Maybe the effect is permanent? :)

14 makeitstop  Mar 7, 2015 8:23:34pm

re: #11 Decatur Deb

Read that as “gators are fed and watered”. I am too long in Alabama.

I thought ‘gatos’ was a typo of ‘goats’ for a minute. Must be from Backwoods_Sleuth talking about her goat recently.

15 Great White Snark  Mar 7, 2015 8:24:57pm
Spring Has Arrived!
16 CuriousLurker  Mar 7, 2015 8:25:31pm

Just dropping this off for FG in case she’s still lurking about. ;-)

17 bratwurst  Mar 7, 2015 8:32:34pm

Well it looks like National Review has a confirmed RINO on their hands. First Charles Cooke turned his back on Sarah Palin, now he is critical of the fact none of the GOP leadership turned up at Selma.

18 teleskiguy  Mar 7, 2015 8:35:37pm

I really wish the @DRUDGELINES Twitter account was more active.

19 CuriousLurker  Mar 7, 2015 8:36:09pm

re: #17 bratwurst

He obviously doesn’t love America the way Rudy noun+verb+9/11 Giuliani does. //

20 CuriousLurker  Mar 7, 2015 8:41:49pm

I’m waiting for them to start hissing about this pic:

21 CuriousLurker  Mar 7, 2015 8:45:30pm

Gonna go watch videos. Later, lizards.

22 freetoken  Mar 7, 2015 8:46:32pm

Coming across various news and blog posts here and there, I keep asking myself if the intellectual elite, the somebodies in the inner circles back there in the mover and shaker scene in DC-Boston axis, have painted themselves in a corner.

There is now so much concern about trying to include different point of views on any single issue that the result is a modern media that is turning in a cacophony of loons, all calling for their intellectual mates.

What got me going down this path tonight is the NPR story:

Debate: Do Liberals Stifle Intellectual Diversity On The College Campus?

[…]

In the latest event from Intelligence Squared U.S., two teams faced off on in an Oxford-style debate on the motion, “Liberals Are Stifling Intellectual Diversity On Campus.” In these events, the team that sways the most people by the end of the debate is declared the winner.

Before the debate at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., 33 percent of the audience voted in favor of the motion, 21 percent were opposed and 46 percent were undecided. After the debate, 59 percent agreed with the motion, while 32 percent disagreed, making the team arguing in favor of the motion the winner.

There’s so much wrong here, but among the side effects is that the religious right is trying to harvest fruit from this folly. Note that Denny Burk, who is Mullah Mohler’s blogging point man, pounces on this:

Do Liberals Stifle Intellectual Diversity on Campus?

The problem I see is that the post-modernist academics in what used to be called “liberal arts” or “the humanities” are diverging from the greater thrust that the science (and the art) communities have kept from modernity.

More than ever a great deal of what I see published out of academia strikes me as sophistry or rhetorical exercises rather than tangible additions to the collective pool of human knowledge.

Now, let’s cue this one up to see how these memes get played out in American politics:

Cruz hits liberals on global warming, GMO food labeling

Sen. Ted Cruz accused liberals of “anti-science zealotry” on global warming, genetically modified food labeling and biotechnology in Iowa on Saturday.

“The radical left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming,” Cruz told about a thousand activists during an agriculture summit on the state fairgrounds. “They scream, ‘you’re anti-science,’ when someone points out, for example, that in the last 17 years, satellite data shows there’s been no warming whatsoever.”

[…]

“The hard-core left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says God created the heaven and the earth,” Cruz went on. “They say that it’s anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing. But when it comes to biotech, suddenly these same voices become the most anti-science zealots we’ve ever seen.”

[…]

Well, golly, imagine ridiculing creationism! Oh the horrors!

Imagine “stifling” creationism on a college campus - oh, the horror! Let’s debate it!!

23 teleskiguy  Mar 7, 2015 8:48:50pm

It’s Saturday night. How about some POV downhill ski racing?

This is the Streif course in Kitzbühel, Austria. It is regarded as the scariest downhill in the world.

Youtube Video

24 BeachDem  Mar 7, 2015 8:53:06pm

Just finished re-watching “Freedom Riders” and “Freedom Summer” and am sad, inspired, angry, depressed and hopeful (not necessarily in that order.)

Hadn’t watched “Freedom Riders” in awhile, and some of what happened was horrifying. Knowing that John Lewis was part of that horror in 1961, it makes his participation in the Selma march in 1965 even more impressive. He had already been through being beaten and arrested with Freedom Riders (hell, they put them in Parchman for part of their punishment) and still had the courage and conviction to keep on going. It must really sadden him to see some of those same fights having to be fought all over again.

The kids (and most of them WERE kids) and the Mississippi residents who took part in “Freedom Summer” of 1964 were a truly awe-inspiring group. And, although it’s overused, the term “awe” applies to them. Some of the things they went through in Mississippi were frightening, but even after the murder of Goodman and Schwerner and Chaney, they stayed on and kept at it. (Shwerner’s wife was also one of the Freedom Summer crew, and she was quite amazing. Stood strong, even calling out Lyndon Johnson at the White House—he called her a communist!!)

I was a little bit too young to be part of it, and I wonder if I would have even had the courage and stamina to do it had I been a few years older. They all really played a part in changing our country for the better. Yet, today’s Republicans and the right-wing Supremes want to take it all away.

Last week, at our issues conference, some college kids got up and said that we older folks just didn’t understand what they were facing, and could not relate to their problems. They were the same age as the Freedom Riders and the Freedom Summer volunteers, and I’m not sure I can even imagine them doing what those 60s kids did.

I know I should just adjust the onion on my belt and tell everyone to get off my lawn, but DAMN.

25 jaunte  Mar 7, 2015 9:00:14pm

re: #22 freetoken

“Do Liberal Stifle Intellectual Diversity On Campus?”
en.wikipedia.org

26 Great White Snark  Mar 7, 2015 9:01:50pm
27 bratwurst  Mar 7, 2015 9:32:59pm

I had to stop following this guy last year, but I don’t think I really ever imagined he would go full metal wingnut:

28 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 10:07:13pm
29 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 7, 2015 10:35:33pm

re: #3 RealityBasedSteve

We had an invitation for fresh smelt at a fish fry tonight and while I couldn’t care less I have a husband for whom this was heaven.

The pasta was tasty though.

30 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 10:42:24pm

This is why I love twitter so much.

Someone I follow, cannot remember why, is tweeting this jazz singer @kittylarour

She is beautiful & this first video I stumbled upon is great.

…

Charles is most likely aware.

31 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 10:45:43pm

@kittylaroar oops.

32 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 7, 2015 10:47:50pm

We did come from the fish fry and I found my kitties wanted to say hello too.

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33 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 10:52:30pm

Early morning tomorrow because of the cruel time change. Hate it. Funny how ‘ole sage Stanley Sea reminded every young un at the restaurant about it and they were like WHA?

I’m still totally wired though, going to stay up for awhile and just accept the suffer tomorrow.

34 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 7, 2015 10:53:38pm

re: #33 #FergusonFireside

I won’t feel the time change until Monday.

And then it will be DOOM AND GLOOM AND THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE.

35 A Cranky One  Mar 7, 2015 10:55:18pm

re: #32 klys (maker of Silmarils)

We did come from the fish fry and I found my kitties wanted to say hello too.

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Translation: my staff left me unattended and even worse, returned smelling of fish but didn’t bring me any. What is the appropriate retribution?

Better watch your back. ;)

36 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 7, 2015 10:58:13pm

re: #35 A Cranky One

Translation: my staff left me unattended and even worse, returned smelling of fish but didn’t bring me any. What is the appropriate retribution?

Better watch your back. ;)

…given our cats, it would be the hair that needs watching, not the back.

/All I’m saying is that there is a reason they are not allowed in the bedroom while we are asleep and it’s directly attributable to one problem child.

37 Higgs Boson's Mate  Mar 7, 2015 11:01:15pm

re: #24 BeachDem

Last week, at our issues conference, some college kids got up and said that we older folks just didn’t understand what they were facing, and could not relate to their problems. They were the same age as the Freedom Riders and the Freedom Summer volunteers, and I’m not sure I can even imagine them doing what those 60s kids did.

Let’s not be too critical. Those young folks would gather themselves up and tweet vehemently about it then they’d…SQUIRREL!

38 A Cranky One  Mar 7, 2015 11:02:16pm

re: #37 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Let’s not be too critical. Those young folks would gather themselves up and tweet vehemently about it then they’d…SQUIRREL!

SQUIRREL????? WHERE??????

39 A Cranky One  Mar 7, 2015 11:06:22pm
40 Floral Giraffe  Mar 7, 2015 11:27:00pm

re: #16 CuriousLurker

Too cute!

41 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 11:30:21pm

re: #40 Floral Giraffe

Too cute!

GF, you still in touch with Hoops? I hope he is really good. Think about him often.

42 Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2015 11:31:07pm

I’m seeing mentions and rumors online that Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Supreme Leader of Iran, has died at the age of 75. Nothing confirmed yet, it’s all just rumors.

I wonder who’s next in line for the position if the Ayatollah has indeed died?

43 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 11:33:17pm
44 Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2015 11:38:37pm

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

I’m seeing mentions and rumors online that Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Supreme Leader of Iran, has died at the age of 75. Nothing confirmed yet, it’s all just rumors.

I wonder who’s next in line for the position if the Ayatollah has indeed died?

A Google search shows the rumor began going around Friday. If he is dead, then it seems odd Iran hasn’t announced so by now.

45 Dr Lizardo  Mar 7, 2015 11:41:14pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

A Google search shows the rumor began going around Friday. If he is dead, then it seems odd Iran hasn’t announced so by now.

Yeah, you’re right. You’d think they would’ve announced it by now if he’d indeed passed away. I don’t imagine them pulling something like you’d expect from North Korea.

46 #FergusonFireside  Mar 7, 2015 11:42:16pm

Nighty! XXOO

47 Targetpractice  Mar 7, 2015 11:48:52pm

CNN is warming up the holograms as we speak…

48 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 12:10:02am

re: #47 Targetpractice

CNN is warming up the holograms as we speak…

Not to mention dusting off their maps…

49 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 12:10:25am

Perth - it’s not a location, it’s a state of mind.

50 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 12:14:08am

MP3 Audio

51 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 12:44:44am

I am discovering the birther obsession with minute details that all PROVE that Obama is not American. Now it’s debating whether Obama Sr. really came over from Kenya on the Kennedy airlifts. Apparently, if he didn’t, then Obama can’t be president.

I wish these RWNJs would have been as obsessed over every word Bush had said.

It seems Obama Jr. took some poetic license with chronology, and said his father benefited from the Kennedy-sponsored airlifts. In fact, Obama Sr. was already in Hawaii by the time Sen. Kennedy helped fund the airlifts. UpChuck seems fixated on this discrepancy.

Earlier, he tweeted a video, saying Obama credited the Selma march with bringing his folks together. Then I pointed out Obama said nothing of the kind, but credited Kennedy with bringing them together. Then UpChuck tweeted again, saying it didn’t happen.

But in fact, Obama Sr. did benefit from the airlifts, but not while Kennedy was helping fund them. washingtonpost.com

52 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 12:49:45am

Debating whether or not to write a follow-up to Kragar’s post about the Harris case, because it’s looking like the rabbit hole has only gotten deeper. He’s already changing his story to make himself out totally as the victim, but now he’s saying DHS is responsible. And the Arkansas Times has dug deeper and found the foster family who cared for the girls before the Harrises took custody of them and are disputing his claims.

53 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:03:53am

re: #52 Targetpractice

Debating whether or not to write a follow-up to Kragar’s post about the Harris case, because it’s looking like the rabbit hole has only gotten deeper. He’s already changing his story to make himself out totally as the victim, but now he’s saying DHS is responsible. And the Arkansas Times has dug deeper and found the foster family who cared for the girls before the Harrises took custody of them and are disputing his claims.

Harris is lower than fucking pond scum and deserves jail time for his actions

55 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 1:15:29am

re: #54 Kragar

Kid-Dumper AR Rep Justin Harris So SO Sorry … That DHS Screwed Him And His Family

Foster family disputes key statements from Justin Harris

Yeah, that’s what I was considering writing up a page about. The stink of this whole case is just getting worse and worse. I get the strong impression that the adoption of the girls was a political stunt by Harris, that he got into something for which he had little understanding and a lot of false confidence, and he passed the girls off like unwanted puppies without any idea who the people he was giving them to really were. And now he’s trying to cover his tracks by acting in that grand Republican tradition: Blaming everybody else and portraying himself as the victim.

56 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:17:53am

re: #55 Targetpractice

DCFS Director Cecile Blucker is the person ultimately in charge of adoption and foster care for the state of Arkansas. Harris said Blucker is the one who informed him of the possibility of an abandonment charge when he and Marsha were struggling to handle the girls. In the interview with Petrimoux, he said “I did go to her and … we were told we could get the charge of abandonment … I talked privately, constantly, being on the [House] committee of Children and Youth, with Cecile Blucker.”

But the Harts believe Blucker’s influence made the adoption happen in the first place. They say she exerted pressure on people in the local DHS team that had previously objected to the Harris adoption.

“In most conversations with us, [Harris] would mention Cecile’s name. ‘Well, Cecile said this, Cecile said that.’ They were impatient for papers to be filed and did not want to wait for anything. They wanted it to happen faster than it did,” Cheryl Hart said.

The Times asked the former DHS employee whether the wishes of the local adoption team were not followed because of Blucker. The former employee responded, simply, “True.”

The Southern Good Ole Boy network hooked up one of their own and it led to a 6 year old getting raped.

57 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 1:21:01am

re: #56 Kragar

The Southern Good Ole Boy network hooked up one of their own and it led to a 6 year old getting raped.

And is now closing ranks around him. A reporter’s been threatened, the legislature is now looking to “reform” DHS, and the governor is calling for an investigation into DHS. The apparent assumption is that, whatever went wrong in this case, Justin Harris is totally the victim. Even in the excuse-making session on Friday, he didn’t seem to show any remorse for what his actions had wrought.

58 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:25:41am

re: #57 Targetpractice

I blame Rutherford B Hayes.

59 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 1:34:32am

The whole case really is a major example of how fucked up things are in the GOP. If Harris were a Democrat, this case would be the subject of national controversy and a campaign already being led to see him driven out of politics. But IOKIYAR, so he actually stands to profit by using the episode to attack his political enemies.

60 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 1:35:51am

I blame fantasy golf.

That’s right, fantasy golf.

For money.

Online fantasy gaming for big $$$ is evidently a growing business. I know DraftKings is advertising that a billion dollars will be won this year through them.

A billion dollars.

And now they are offering a fantasy golf game with the winner taking home a million dollars.

I thought our society was loopy once sports players started making million dollar pay days.

But now you, the lowly unwashed masses, can play fantasy golf and win a million dollars.

61 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 1:36:38am

Kragar, you’re into the wrong type of fantasy games!

62 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:39:52am

re: #59 Targetpractice

The whole case really is a major example of how fucked up things are in the GOP. If Harris were a Democrat, this case would be the subject of national controversy and a campaign already being led to see him driven out of politics. But IOKIYAR, so he actually stands to profit by using the episode to attack his political enemies.

The guy runs a chain of for profit “bible schools” taking in a huge amount of government grants, while claiming to be a “small government” stooge. As soon as this story breaks, he starts quoting bible passages about how he’s being attacked.

He should be tossed in a hole and left there.

63 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:41:32am

re: #61 freetoken

Kragar, you’re into the wrong type of fantasy games!

I have my pride.

64 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 1:43:47am

re: #62 Kragar

The guy runs a chain of for profit “bible schools” taking in a huge amount of government grants, while claiming to be a “small government” stooge. As soon as this story breaks, he starts quoting bible passages about how he’s being attacked.

He should be tossed in a hole and left there.

As noted in both articles, it’s his use of government funds for those schools that’s resulted in his little feud with DHS, which (of course) he has oversight over. And it’s that oversight that apparently he used to strong-arm DHS into allowing the adoption to go through. So of course it’s going to be that oversight he’ll now use to screw them over for his political benefit.

65 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 1:48:27am

I end up having to delete half of what I say about Harris and this case because if I don’t, someone else would.

66 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 3:03:28am

It was 1:59 and now its 3:02!

Obviously aliens are involved.

67 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 3:31:47am

Oh CSI you never fail me.

Investigator says “Transport the 2 suspects in separate cars so they can’t work out their story.”

The very next scene, the same investigator is watching the 2 suspects, sitting together in an interrogation room, and says to a colleague “Let them sweat for a bit.”

68 Targetpractice  Mar 8, 2015 3:42:23am

re: #67 Kragar

Oh CSI you never fail me.

Investigator says “Transport the 2 suspects in separate cars so they can’t work out their story.”

The very next scene, the same investigator is watching the 2 suspects, sitting together in an interrogation room, and says to a colleague “Let them sweat for a bit.”

I gave up on CSI ages ago, right around the time the writers decided the characters were expendable.

69 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 3:47:16am

re: #68 Targetpractice

I gave up on CSI ages ago, right around the time the writers decided the characters were expendable.

I gave up part way thru the Vegas series, didn’t make it past 2 episodes of the NY, and laughing my ass off at the sheer and utter nonsense of the Miami version.

70 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 3:54:35am

re: #69 Kragar

I gave up part way thru the Vegas series, didn’t make it past 2 episodes of the NY, and laughing my ass off at the sheer and utter nonsense of the Miami version.

You mean David Caruso’s taking off his sunglasses and peering with his eyes askance at the victim wasn’t doing anything for you?

It was the southern belle’s manner of speaking that drove me crazy, and not in a good way.

71 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 3:55:32am

I have never seen a single episode of any CSI series.

Call me weird.

72 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 3:55:56am

I listen to a lot of music, though…

MP3 Audio

73 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 8, 2015 3:57:44am

Speaking of fantasy games, I am really quite impressed with D&D 5. Cleans up after the steaming pile that was the 4th edition quite well. The new DMG is easily the best yet and the rules were actually streamlined in useful ways. That said there are still classic D&D WTF moments with dragonborn , teiflings & alignment still being in the game.

74 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 4:01:10am

re: #71 freetoken

I have never seen a single episode of any CSI series.

Call me weird.

I watched CSI: LV during the William Petersen days; tried Miami, but the characterizations put me off, and watched NY for a while because I like Gary Sinise as an actor. Also, I’m from NY. But even so, the plot lines is all of them were just silly.

NCIS had good character interplay, despite the silliness of the plot resolutions. I turn off my logic functions.

75 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 4:06:11am

re: #73 William Barnett-Lewis

Speaking of fantasy games, I am really quite impressed with D&D 5. Cleans up after the steaming pile that was the 4th edition quite well. The new DMG is easily the best yet and the rules were actually streamlined in useful ways. That said there are still classic D&D WTF moments with dragonborn , teiflings & alignment still being in the game.

4th Ed was such a steaming load, I’m hesitant to even consider new D&D. I’ll stick with 2nd

76 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 4:11:27am
77 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 4:16:19am

A big reason I “watch” so many of these utterly crappy shows is I like to have something on in the background while I work on my projects

78 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 8, 2015 4:30:37am

re: #77 Kragar

A big reason I “watch” so many of these utterly crappy shows is I like to have something on in the background while I work on my projects

After we killed our TV I got into using classical music that way. Much more enjoyable to me :)

79 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 4:30:49am

Happy Intl Women’s Day (image from Google)

Women of the World, Unite!
80 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 4:35:03am

One suspect in Nemtsov’s murder has allegedly killed himself with a grenade during arrest. In Grozny.

81 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 4:37:41am

re: #80 Nyet

Mr. Furious: Seems there was a little controversy there regarding your father’s death.

The Bowler: Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.

The Blue Raja: You know, I’ve alwas suspected a bit of foul play there.

The Bowler: As have I.

82 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 4:39:44am

The other arrested suspects were awaited near the Basmanny court in Moscow:

The investigation has asked the court for 5 arrests.

83 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 4:42:19am

re: #82 Nyet

Hey, Pootie-poo, The Whole World Is Watching.

84 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 4:50:14am

I learned a new phrase: “Bro-country”. Yeah, it’s a thing.

Why sexist country music is a turn off

Dinosaur attitudes towards women dominate country music, and it needs to change

telegraph.co.uk

The attitude seems to be, “Get me a beer, go sit in the truck and shut up. The men are talking here and you don’t need to.”

85 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 4:56:55am
86 Doofus  Mar 8, 2015 5:16:38am

I hope you are feeling better today Charles.

87 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 8, 2015 5:40:47am

Thanks for the reminder about the Freedom Riders film. I almost feel like I’m watching another country. Makes me sick, but inspired by their courage in the face of such despicable racism.

88 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 5:42:48am

This research sounds really promising; study is being conducted by neuroscientists at Imperial College London.

Crowdfunding psychedelics: LSD brain-imaging study seeks funds

reuters.com

(snip)

“Nutt and other researchers have previously conducted studies with psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, and found it suppresses activity in certain “hub” areas of the brain that normally play a constraining role.

“This latest study involves giving 20 volunteers a small dose of LSD and using the latest imaging technology to capture its effect on the brain. Nutt’s team said they expected to find that LSD’s effects were similar to those of psilocybin, but more profound and longer-lasting.

“The LSD study has been funded so far with 100,000 pounds from the Beckley Foundation, a UK-based think tank dedicated to researching potential medical benefits of psychoactive substances.” More

89 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 8, 2015 5:49:57am

LSD killed the thread!

90 Doofus  Mar 8, 2015 5:53:56am

Treats? No.
…

91 Doofus  Mar 8, 2015 5:55:43am

If you are a Tom Hanks fan you may like this new video from Carly Rae Jepsen
…

92 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 8, 2015 5:56:19am

Good morning Lizards from a sunny and currently cool St George, SC.

Got into Wilmington, NC yesterday afternoon and we started driving south. Stopped for dinner at a fish place in Florence, SC.* and then stopped here in St George for the night. Plan this morning once my niece is up and about is to head into Savannah, visit the old town, and then play things by ear** from there. It looks like we’ll have nice weather today and tomorrow, and then rain after that for most of the week.

* - Since there was a shad special and it was the right time of year, I had shad. Lots of little bones, but quite tasty.

** - Which means we might stay in the Savannah area an extra day, or head down towards Pensacola. This is a vacation and we don’t have a fixed agenda.

93 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 8, 2015 6:00:57am

And the wireless here in the motel is very very slowwwwwwww.

94 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:02:57am

re: #93 Feline Fearless Leader

Don’t expect much on the southern coast. : )

95 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 8, 2015 6:05:33am

re: #94 Justanotherhuman

Don’t expect much on the southern coast. : )

I can report an instant grits sighting at the breakfast bar this morning.
O_O

96 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 8, 2015 6:06:55am

Instant grits or grits in an instant? :)

97 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:08:44am

Dadayev

98 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:09:58am

Three other suspects: Bakhaev, the other Kubashev, Eskerkhanov.

99 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 8, 2015 6:10:42am

re: #96 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

Instant grits or grits in an instant? :)

Saw packages of instant grits (looked just like the Quaker instant oatmeal) and they also had some already prepared and sitting in a warmer - right next to the one full of oatmeal. I settled for biscuits with sausage gravy.

One of the salvations of motel breakfast bars nowadays are the waffle makers.

100 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:11:28am

The only thing Dadayev said for the cameras: “I love Prophet Muhammed.”

101 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Mar 8, 2015 6:12:57am

re: #99 Feline Fearless Leader

Saw packages of instant grits (looked just like the Quaker instant oatmeal) and they also had some already prepared and sitting in a warmer - right next to the one full of oatmeal. I settled for biscuits with sausage gravy.

One of the salvations of motel breakfast bars nowadays are the waffle makers.

Ah, motel “continental breakfast”! yeah, the waffle maker is great, if you can get at it.

102 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:13:12am

A bright and sunny day with a high of around 70 today. Good times! And it appears this will hold for most of the week, in the high 60s and lows in the 40s. Time to start planting. I got the Munchkin a “Flower Rocket” at the dollar store so he can learn—it’s a mix of annuals, 1K seeds in a mixture, just pop it in, so should do OK. Has to be watered twice a day, so he’ll have to take care of that before and after school. My Little Gardener. : )

Time for me to hit the nursery for more potting soil and plants for my container garden and he’ll want to help with those, too.

103 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:15:18am

re: #96 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

An abomination. What’s 5 min on the stove? Gives you time to get the eggs just right. : )

104 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:18:00am

Obama isn’t doing anything about ISIS, cont.

13 airstrikes conducted by US and partners across Iraq and Syria in fight against Islamic State - @CJTFOIR
end of alert

105 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 6:24:22am

I suspect the wingnut history will soon eliminate the whole Afghanistan/Iraq war along the lines of Japanese schoolbooks—Japan “became embroiled” in Manchuria, then for some obscure reason the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the end.

9/11, Clinton did nothing, Clinton morphed into Obama, Obama did nothing, Osama/ISIS coming to get you, the end.

106 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:25:46am

re: #105 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

As everybody knows, 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch.

107 Doofus  Mar 8, 2015 6:26:24am

Maybe I can put a tune in your ear, what does the fox say?! With subtitles!!

…

108 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 6:28:16am

Anyone know how to shrink a photo to less than 500K? I took some pics of metal sculptures here on display in town, but they’re all over 500K.

109 freetoken  Mar 8, 2015 6:28:54am

re: #100 Nyet

The only thing Dadayev said for the cameras: “I love Prophet Muhammed.”

Kind of scary, in some big picture sense.

I am as skeptical as ever regarding humans getting beyond the ethno/religious complex and bloody form of competition.

110 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 6:31:17am

re: #108 Dr Lizardo

Anyone know how to shrink a photo to less than 500K? I took some pics of metal sculptures here on display in town, but they’re all over 500K.

I use IrFanView to view and do simple editing tasks. It’s open source.

111 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:32:16am

re: #108 Dr Lizardo

For LGF I simply use MSPaint to make the images smaller (usually 1/3 of the original size). The quality doesn’t seem to suffer.

112 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:35:54am

re: #109 freetoken

Kind of scary, in some big picture sense.

I am as skeptical as ever regarding humans getting beyond the ethno/religious complex and bloody form of competition.

I wonder if Charlie Hebdo had anything to do with it. At least as a way to manipulate the killers. Because if Kadyrov is behind it, he had his own reasons to hate Nemtsov.

113 Decatur Deb  Mar 8, 2015 6:35:58am

‘Morning, all. What time is it?
I’d like some consensus, please.

114 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 8, 2015 6:37:44am

re: #80 Nyet

One suspect in Nemtsov’s murder has allegedly killed himself with a grenade during arrest. In Grozny.

Chechen McNuggets

115 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:38:23am

Dadayev pleaded guilty, the other 4 didn’t.

116 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:39:47am

3 other suspects (not yet accused):

Shagid Gubashev (1983)
Tamerlan Eskerkhanov (1980)
Khamzat Bakhayev (1969)

117 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:41:03am

Eskerkhanov says he has an alibi.

118 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:41:38am

re: #115 Nyet

So—did he confess as the shooter? Covering for the other 4?

119 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:42:14am

re: #118 Justanotherhuman

I don’t have the details.

120 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 6:42:30am

Are there any reasons why these men would have targeted Nemtsov?

121 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:42:34am

re: #118 Justanotherhuman

Well, you said one was dead, right? Blew himself up with a grenade?

122 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:43:35am

I’ll say one thing: dismissing Dadayev as a scapegoat is premature. He’s a pretty inconvenient scapegoat for the status quo due to his position.

123 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:43:47am

re: #113 Decatur Deb

‘Morning, all. What time is it?
I’d like some consensus, please.

My ‘puter says 9:43 am.

124 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:44:33am

re: #123 Justanotherhuman

My ‘puter says 9:43 am.

Haha, that’s EDT. Are you central?

125 William Barnett-Lewis  Mar 8, 2015 6:45:05am

re: #123 Justanotherhuman

My ‘puter says 9:43 am.

08:44 in the CDT zone.

126 Decatur Deb  Mar 8, 2015 6:49:23am

re: #124 Justanotherhuman

Haha, that’s EDT. Are you central?

re: #125 William Barnett-Lewis

08:44 in the CDT zone.

Yeah. About half the clocks in the house reset themselves, the other half don’t. The trick is knowing which. Plan B might be to own two sets of clocks and rotate them semi-annually. Or go back to the stem-wound Russian watch I bought from the trunk of a car.

127 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 6:49:31am

Some metalwork art from local artists here in Ostrava.

Enjoy.

128 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:49:38am

re: #120 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Are there any reasons why these men would have targeted Nemtsov?

There are always reasons, aren’t there?

But just to let my fantasy run:

Some powerful figure, let’s call him R.K., hates BN because BN directly challenged R.K., accusing him of murders and calling for his prosecution.

R.K. then orders someone to deal with the turbulent liberal. This in itself would be enough, but BN was also vocal about Charlie Hebdo and free speech, so this then could be used: “See, he hates us and the Prophet. Do it.”.

129 Decatur Deb  Mar 8, 2015 6:53:10am

re: #128 Nyet

Note to self: Give the investigators a break—try to inspire only one faction of murderous enemies at a time.

130 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:54:37am

re: #127 Dr Lizardo

Enough to scare little kids. : )

131 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:55:35am

Only one?

One of suspected Nemtsov killers to stay in custody till April 28 at the earliest - Interfax
end of alert

132 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 6:56:22am

Chechnya and Charlie Hebdo

133 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 6:56:56am

re: #127 Dr Lizardo

Pretty cool. I saw some Transformers in Guangzhou made from auto parts, but my photos didn’t turn out so clear. Here’s one that came out OK.

134 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 6:58:34am

re: #128 Nyet

There are always reasons, aren’t there?

But just to let my fantasy run:

Some powerful figure, let’s call him R.K., hates BN because BN directly challenged R.K., accusing him of murders and calling for his prosecution.

R.K. then orders someone to deal with the turbulent liberal. This in itself would be enough, but BN was also vocal about Charlie Hebdo and free speech, so this then could be used: “See, he hates us and the Prophet. Do it.”.

So, R.K. hired Chechen hit men to do his dirty work, in other words.

135 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 6:59:04am

re: #132 Nyet

Interesting.

“On Monday, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, whom Vladimir V. Putin appointed president of Chechnya in 2007, held a mass rally in Grozny, the regional capital, against “the enemies of Islam.” It was reportedly attended by tens of thousands of people, many of them sporting slogans that read “We love Muhammad,” in Russian, Arabic and English. The largest banner quoted Mr. Putin: “Islam is a vital part of Russia’s cultural makeup.” In his speech, Mr. Kadyrov pledged to defend Russia and denounced Western journalists and politicians.” (my emphasis)

136 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 7:00:10am

re: #130 Justanotherhuman

Enough to scare little kids. : )

The kids there loved it, including some little kids too. Maybe Czechs kids are weird little kids or something. Maybe they turn out like Wednesday and Pugsley. :D

137 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 7:00:50am

re: #133 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Pretty cool. I saw some Transformers in Guangzhou made from auto parts, but my photos didn’t turn out so clear. Here’s one that came out OK.

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Cool.

138 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 7:00:55am

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

Interesting.

“On Monday, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, whom Vladimir V. Putin appointed president of Chechnya in 2007, held a mass rally in Grozny, the regional capital, against “the enemies of Islam.” It was reportedly attended by tens of thousands of people, many of them sporting slogans that read “We love Muhammad,” in Russian, Arabic and English. The largest banner quoted Mr. Putin: “Islam is a vital part of Russia’s cultural makeup.” In his speech, Mr. Kadyrov pledged to defend Russia and denounced Western journalists and politicians.” (my emphasis)

The pieces appear to fit. Maybe Putin didn’t direct the assassination, but he smiled at the idea.

139 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 7:01:09am

re: #134 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Hired? Not quite. It’s not like the alleged head hitman wasn’t under his command…

140 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 7:01:27am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

Cool.

Back at ya.

141 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:02:05am

re: #136 Dr Lizardo

Oh, it wasn’t so much the transformers that scared the Munchkin, it was the motorbikes. : )

He has transformers, but none over 1 ft tall. And loves the videos and movies. Go figure.

142 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 7:02:54am

re: #141 Justanotherhuman

Oh, it wasn’t so much the transformers that scared the Munchkin, it was the motorbikes. : )

He has transformers, but none over 1 ft tall. And loves the videos and movies. Go figure.

The bikes look like something Ghost Rider would ride.

143 Decatur Deb  Mar 8, 2015 7:06:11am

Dog knows what time it is—Central Walk Time. BBL

144 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 7:06:50am

To repeat some comments I posted yesterday (with some corrections):

Dadayev’s mother says he had service awards from Nurgaliyev and Kadyrov.

ntv. ru/novosti/1355377

This sort of corresponds to that 2010 news item at chechnya.gov.ru

There a certain Zaur Dadayev was awarded the Order of Courage acc. to the order of the President of the RF [it was Medvedev at the time] (among other soldiers). The award was presented by Nurgaliyev, Kadyrov was present and also presented medals to other soldiers.

According to at least 2 sources (1 official + his mother) Dadayev is a deputy commander of the battalion “Sever”, which was created by Ramzan Kadyrov and is loyal to him. The commander of “Sever” is Alibek Delimkhanov.

Alibek is a brother of the Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, Kadyrov’s alleged cousin and close ally. Some sources call Delimkhanov Kadyrov’s personal executioner.

In 2009 Dubai accused Adam Delimkhanov of ordering the assassination of Sulim Yamadayev, one of Kadyrov’s personal enemies. (Kadyrov was also responsible for the assassination attempt on Sulim’s brother Isa Yamadayev; this was subsequently covered up by the Russian authorities, but there are still official transcripts and video of the killer’s interrogation in which he points to Kadyrov as the one who had ordered the murder, with Delimkhanov being present during the discussion.)

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Umar S. Israilov (c. 1982 - January 13, 2009) was a former bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov who became a critic of the Chechen regime. He was shot and killed in exile in Vienna, Austria on January 13, 2009.[1]

Israilov fought against Russian forces during the Second Chechen War, but was captured in 2003. He began serving as Ramzan Kadyrov’s bodyguard in a militia that was led by Ramzan Kadyrov’s father, then Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov.[2] Israilov claimed to have witnessed killings, torture, and other crimes by Kadyrovites including Ramzan Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov, who went on to serve in the Russian Parliament.[3]

145 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 7:10:22am

re: #144 Nyet

A photo from Kadyrov’s instagram:

instagram.com

“My dear BROTHERS … Adam Delimkhanov … Alibek Delimkhanov … Sharip Delimkhanov”

I read that they’re his cousins.

146 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:15:29am

re: #145 Nyet

They look like tough customers. Is that a gang sign? ///

147 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 7:16:07am

re: #141 Justanotherhuman

Oh, it wasn’t so much the transformers that scared the Munchkin, it was the motorbikes. : )

He has transformers, but none over 1 ft tall. And loves the videos and movies. Go figure.

The Optimus Prime sculpture is about 11 feet tall.

148 karev  Mar 8, 2015 7:16:08am

Love punch brothers, probably my favorite band, never cared for this song though

149 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:18:30am

All Kadyrov’s photos: instagram.com

150 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:20:55am

“To a certain extent, the rally shows how adept — at least so far — Mr. Putin has been at mixing religion and politics. It is well known that he relies heavily on the Russian Orthodox Church to bolster his support whenever he needs to draw public attention away from his country’s troubling economic and social ills. But Russia also has a large Muslim population — nearly one-sixth of its people are Muslim. Moscow alone has two million Muslim residents, and according to some estimates, an equal number of Muslim migrant workers. Mr. Putin wants to keep them in his camp, and this requires pragmatism and the utmost delicacy. The brutal war in Chechnya may have ended, but Islamist rebels, some of them professing loyalty to the Islamic State, still roam the Caucasus, and Moscow is fearful that their influence can easily spread northward.”

nytimes.com

151 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 7:25:41am

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

You will notice the fake quote from Snowden that I mentioned earlier. It puts blame for the murder on the USA. After the murder Kadyrov also hastened to issue a statement on his Instagram in which he blamed the Western intelligence services for the murder. This was even reported in Russia’s official state newspaper:

rg.ru

152 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 7:27:24am

Obviously, if RK does have anything to do with it (and all of the above has been but sheer speculation), Putin is absolutely to blame, because RK is Putin’s creation.

153 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 7:29:27am

re: #150 Justanotherhuman

I haven’t read the NYT article. Does it mention anything about how Putin is using the West (USA and EU, especially) as a scapegoat or a rallying point for Russians of all stripes to dislike/distrust? His rhetoric also seems to paint Russia as a “victim” of Western machinations, an Us vs. Them scenario.

Or, more briefly, “We have always been at war with EastAsia.”

154 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:31:29am

re: #151 Nyet

After reading that NYT article, a person might logically assume that Kadyrov may have ordered the hit, even though “ordered” might be a bit strong. But it appears he may have set up an ideology in Chechnya in which such an act might be formulated and carried out on a perceived “enemy” of that ideology.

155 darthstar  Mar 8, 2015 7:31:43am
156 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 8, 2015 7:34:06am

re: #154 Justanotherhuman

After reading that NYT article, a person might logically assume that Kadyrov may have ordered the hit, even though “ordered” might be a bit strong. But it appears he may have set up an ideology in Chechnya in which such an act might be formulated and carried out on a perceived “enemy” of that ideology.

R.K. — {To no one in particular} “I sure hope Mr Nemtsov doesn’t have any accidents in the next few days. He needs to be careful, a man of his age.”

157 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:40:47am

re: #153 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality

Not really. But it does give you a scenario in which his appointee, Kadyrov, has gotten away from Putin orthodoxy, even to turning certain institutions into examples of “Sharia law” and this is the fine line Putin is treading.

“But the price of peace and order has been the emergence of an Islamic state within Russia. Chechnya’s nominally secular institutions are now thoroughly Islamicized. Public schools have instructors who teach Islam. Each district administration has a qadi, or Islamic judge, who wields de facto power in the district. Shariah courts function in the guise of state courts. Women are ordered to keep covered in public places, and the consumption of alcohol is prohibited. During his “virtue campaign,” Mr. Kadyrov openly declared that a woman is a man’s property and defended “honor killings.”

(snip)

“Mr. Kadyrov, a member of the council of Russia’s ruling United Russia party and a decorated Hero of the Russian Federation, admitted several years ago that, for him, Shariah was above any other law. For the moment, President Putin seems to find Shariah more palatable than freedom of speech.”

nytimes.com

158 Dave In Austin  Mar 8, 2015 7:42:36am

Now there is a man that understands the functionality and proper use of a spinning reel……

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159 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 7:48:48am

Virtue Campaign on Women in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov

hrw.org

160 darthstar  Mar 8, 2015 7:54:13am

re: #158 Dave In Austin

Now there is a man that understands the functionality and proper use of a spinning reel……

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He’s used to blue water fishing off the coast of Wisconsin.

161 darthstar  Mar 8, 2015 7:55:48am
162 Belafon  Mar 8, 2015 8:05:29am

re: #161 darthstar

Like the one where Fox claims to be a news organization?

163 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:07:45am

Government plans sex consent lessons for 11-year-olds

bbc.com

I cannot imagine what pressures 11 yr olds are under these days. I was still playing w/paper dolls at that age. Sex was something involving adults or older teenagers about to get married, not me. Does that make me an old fuddy duddy?

I think a program like this should be implemented in US schools—kids need to learn that they’re not “sex toys” for anyone when they’re still kids and not able to give consent, because I don’t think 11 yr olds are having sex with anyone their own age. To think otherwise is to encourage pedophilia and robbing a young child of her/his efforts at growing up to be a well-balanced adult at a time when they’re just beginning to understand themselves as sexual human beings and what that means for the future.

164 Varek Raith  Mar 8, 2015 8:11:24am

re: #158 Dave In Austin

Now there is a man that understands the functionality and proper use of a spinning reel……

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Pshaw, I’ve fished more than this clown has.
What a poser.

165 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:12:22am

re: #164 Varek Raith

I’ve watched my son fish (catch and release) and I know more about fishing than that clown even though I haven’t done any. : )

166 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 8:14:36am

I mentioned this a couple of days ago, but this bears repeating in the current context.

Chechen Leader Threatens Radio Echo of Moscow After Poll Shows Support For Charlie Hebdo

The fallout from the murderous rampage against Charlie Hebdo spilled over the North Caucuses and Moscow on Friday. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, threatened Radio Echo of Moscow after it ran a poll, asking its listeners whether media, in reaction to Wednesday’s murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists, should publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. A majority of Echo’s listeners, 68 percent, said “yes,” the cartoons should be published and 30 percent said “no.”

Less than an hour later, Kadyrov posted on Twitter that that Echo’s editor-in-chief, Aleksei Venediktov, had insulted Muslims and said, “There are those who will bring Venediktov to account.”

“Venediktov has long ago converted Echo of Moscow into the main anti-Islamic horn,” Kadyrov wrote next to his own portrait, which shows him pointing at the sky, muscles bulging, and rings on his fingers. If authorities did not restrict the radio that “incites animosity and hatred among people and nations,” Kadyrov went on, “There will be people to make Venediktov responsible.” A dangerous statement in the country where a number of journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya and Natalya Estemirova, have been assassinated by Chechen nationals.

[…]

But clearly, balanced and professional were not the approach the Chechen leader had been using lately. Kadyrov began his Friday morning by tweeting a picture of himself in a black uniform speaking before a group of Muslims. In the caption, Kadyrov declared the former boss of Yukos Oil Company [Mikhail Khodorkovsky] his “personal enemy” and “enemy of all Muslims” for calling on media to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Kadyrov said that in Europe, where Khodorkovsky currently lives, there would be people able to call the oilman to account.

So while it is sheer speculation, I think you might agree that it’s not entirely unfounded.

167 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:24:32am

re: #166 Nyet

And as stated in the NYT story, “For the moment, President Putin seems to find Shariah more palatable than freedom of speech.”

As ex-KGB, he probably would.

168 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 8:27:57am

re: #167 Justanotherhuman

Russia seems to be on the road to the Orthodox Christian variant of Sharia in the “Russian” areas, and to Sharia in the “Muslim” regions. All of this “unofficial”, but de facto.

169 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:30:26am

Indian police arrest 22 people in connection with lynching of rape suspect dragged from prison - @ReutersWorld

reuters.com

Remember this guy was just a suspect—there’s more to this story than meets the eye.

170 Belafon  Mar 8, 2015 8:38:28am

So, I’m just like “Wait, that’s what’s his name from Nickel Creek”.

171 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 8:38:55am

re: #148 karev

Welcome, hatchling.

172 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:45:37am

re: #168 Nyet

Well, yeah, anything to stifle the kinds of freedoms people should have.

173 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 8:49:20am

If people think cynicism is rampant in the US, they haven’t been paying attention to Russia.

174 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 8:54:44am

They’re calling it “prom-munism.” Seniors at an Albuquerque school want their prom to have a Communism theme. Seniors at Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School near I-25 and Paseo del Norte voted online this week for the theme of their prom this year.

“They wanted prom-munism, so that’s what got voted for the most,” said senior Sarah Zachary.

She voted for “A Night in the Reef,” because the prom is expected to take place at the Albuquerque Aquarium on April 25.

“We have a lot of jokesters in our grade, so they wanted it to be funny and a lot of them are really intense with politics,” Zachary said.

[…]

175 Belafon  Mar 8, 2015 8:59:05am

re: #174 wrenchwench

Prom-ocracy doesn’t sound nearly as good.

176 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:00:30am
177 #FergusonFireside  Mar 8, 2015 9:01:57am
178 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:04:27am
179 Belafon  Mar 8, 2015 9:04:56am

re: #176 wrenchwench

That’s going on here as well, except for the occasional “God who?”

180 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 9:04:58am
If Oburglar loves America, he’ll give us our hour back. #tcot

Ha, you think you’re kidding….

Remember how the 2010 census was a never-before-seen outrage, dreamed up by Obama, to target conservatives for liquidation?

181 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:06:50am

re: #175 Belafon

Prom-ocracy doesn’t sound nearly as good.

Prom-apitalism is even worse.

182 Dark_Falcon  Mar 8, 2015 9:08:09am

re: #20 CuriousLurker

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I dunno, I don’t think Michelle Obama is mad at George W. Bush in that photo. I don’t think he’s one of her favorite people, but he’s always treated her and her husband with respect. Plus he DID show up in Selma, so that’s a point in his favor.

Though that might be a small part of why other Republicans skipped the event, since GWB is still politically radioactive.

183 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:10:28am

These are kind of up my alley:

184 Dark_Falcon  Mar 8, 2015 9:11:14am

re: #174 wrenchwench

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Charming. Does the losing contender for prom king at ‘Prommunism’ get shot in the back of the head and is there too little food for the number of kids attending? Because those are the sorts of touches you’d need to get the real feel of communism.

185 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:11:53am

re: #182 Dark_Falcon

I dunno, I don’t think Michelle Obama is mad at George W. Bush in that photo. I don’t think he’s one of her favorite people, but he’s always treated her and her husband with respect. Plus he DID show up in Selma, so that’s a point in his favor.

Though that might be a small part of why other Republicans skipped the event, since GWB is still politically radioactive.

Republicans skipped it so their constituents would not think they are soft on race.

186 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 9:14:25am

re: #117 Nyet

Eskerkhanov says he has an alibi.

Bear wrestling with Putin?

187 Dark_Falcon  Mar 8, 2015 9:17:42am

re: #185 wrenchwench

Republicans skipped it so their constituents would not think they are soft on race.

I don’t think it was that. I just think they didn’t want to be seen being civil to Barack Obama, or they just saw it as a lose-lose situation.

Regarding that second possibility, let’s do a hypothetical: What would folks here have posted if photos had come out yesterday of Ted Cruz attending the Selma event? What would you folks’ comment on such a photo have been?

188 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:18:14am

re: #184 Dark_Falcon

Charming. Does the losing contender for prom king at ‘Prommunism’ get shot in the back of the head and is there too little food for the number of kids attending? Because those are the sorts of touches you’d need to get the real feel of communism.

That TV station would interview you if you were a student there like they did the rest of the opponents of Promunism.

Does the usual prom depict the results of Capitalism on poor people?

No.

189 FemNaziBitch  Mar 8, 2015 9:19:03am

Charles, I hope you are feeling better today.

190 FemNaziBitch  Mar 8, 2015 9:19:42am

It’s being mean in my part of the world today. Warmer, but snowing.

How is your day so far?

191 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 9:22:43am

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think it was that. I just think they didn’t want to be seen being civil to Barack Obama, or they just saw it as a lose-lose situation.

Same requirement to not look soft on race to constituents.

Regarding that second possibility, let’s do a hypothetical: What would folks here have posted if photos had come out yesterday of Ted Cruz attending the Selma event? What would you folks’ comment on such a photo have been?

I don’t want to see him, and would not comment if he was posted. Would he attend? He had his chance.

192 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 9:23:53am

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think it was that. I just think they didn’t want to be seen being civil to Barack Obama, or they just saw it as a lose-lose situation.

Regarding that second possibility, let’s do a hypothetical: What would folks here have posted if photos had come out yesterday of Ted Cruz attending the Selma event? What would you folks’ comment on such a photo have been?

Because to you and your party it’s all win-lose, zero sum game. OMG we can’t show civility to our President! We can’t honor those who fought and died for civil rights for our own citizens - how would that LOOK?!

Do you see how fucking ridiculous and ugly this is?

193 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 9:27:01am

The weather is starting to break finally. I’ve been waiting for weeks to install struts in my car. Looks like I’ll get my chance this week. Also this week, I should be receiving the pair of used Yamaha hs7 studio monitors that I bought for a decent price. All life forms within earshot will soon suffer under the incessant audial noodling of my delusions of grandeur!!

Muah hahah!!!

194 Dark_Falcon  Mar 8, 2015 9:29:19am

re: #192 allegro

To me? No Allegro, I thought George W. Bush’s being there was a good thing. So don’t lump me in on this one.

195 Dark_Falcon  Mar 8, 2015 9:30:06am

And now my leg is swollen again. So I’m going to have to go put it up for an hour. I may be back after then.

196 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 9:33:46am

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think it was that. I just think they didn’t want to be seen being civil to Barack Obama, or they just saw it as a lose-lose situation.

Regarding that second possibility, let’s do a hypothetical: What would folks here have posted if photos had come out yesterday of Ted Cruz attending the Selma event? What would you folks’ comment on such a photo have been?

I would have said it was good of him to put down the rancor for a day and act like a real human being.

You probably did not see my comments from yesterday, but I said it was good that “W” Bush showed up and I complimented him for it even though I was never a fan of his,

I also said the Republican party can’t even do ‘politics’ properly anymore. You know, the old stuff like showing up at events, shaking hands, meeting people, kissing babies, etc.

Maybe you have gotten so used to the crap the GOP pulls you can’t see that we all don’t think like that. The fact that you have to think we would all have jumped on Cruz for doing what he probably should have done shows how far politics in general has slipped.

Dark, do you realize how many here have said they were conservative Republicans and they have slid to the middle or to the left due to crap like the Republicans not being able to get past the politics and show up at a historic event.

Why would you think everyone would respond in the same way? That is kinda sad. There are days when we are all just Americans. Yesterday was one of those days. Too bad the GOP had their heads up their asses. It will continue to cost them.

197 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:34:42am

This!

President Obama in statement on International Women’s Day: ‘This gap between women’s inherent value and how many of them are treated every day is one of the great injustices of our time’
end of alert

198 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 9:36:33am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

It’s being mean in my part of the world today. Warmer, but snowing.

How is your day so far?

40°F and sunny…heading for 45° high for the day.

Feels like a heat wave! Yay!

199 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:36:59am

And—this!

Woman allegedly raped by Uber driver in New Delhi releases International Women’s Day statement critical of company’s response, says, ‘Until women can legitimately feel safe, we cannot obtain equality’ - @ibnlive
see original on twitter.com

200 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:41:21am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

I’m not gloating, but I think we’re done with winter. Sunny and 70 today, and the rest of the week looks pretty much the same, with lows in the 40s.

Spring-like, and I like. : )

201 FemNaziBitch  Mar 8, 2015 9:42:08am

re: #200 Justanotherhuman

I’m not gloating, but I think we’re done with winter. Sunny and 70 today, and the rest of the week looks pretty much the same, with lows in the 40s.

Spring-like, and I like. : )

*spit*

/

202 FemNaziBitch  Mar 8, 2015 9:42:37am

re: #197 Justanotherhuman

This!

President Obama in statement on International Women’s Day: ‘This gap between women’s inherent value and how many of them are treated every day is one of the great injustices of our time’
end of alert

Obama and Carter are the only ones who seem to get it.

203 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:42:40am

re: #201 FemNaziBitch

*spit*

/

Hey, I’ve been wrong before. : )

204 FemNaziBitch  Mar 8, 2015 9:43:04am

bbl

205 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 9:46:20am

re: #193 Amory Blaine

The weather is starting to break finally. I’ve been waiting for weeks to install struts in my car. Looks like I’ll get my chance this week. Also this week, I should be receiving the pair of used Yamaha hs7 studio monitors that I bought for a decent price. All life forms within earshot will soon suffer under the incessant audial noodling of my delusions of grandeur!!

Muah hahah!!!

I have a pair of Yamaha MSP5 (nearfield powered) and a set of the classic NS-10M (nearfield - non-powered) studio monitors. Love, love, love them!

So, there!

And we (buddies and I) are about a week away from calling our CD project done. I hope to put up some .wav files for the Lizzards…if I can figure out how to do it. Our world dominating noodling is about over for this one.

206 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 9:48:17am

re: #200 Justanotherhuman

I’m not gloating, but I think we’re done with winter. Sunny and 70 today, and the rest of the week looks pretty much the same, with lows in the 40s.

Spring-like, and I like. : )

Not quite as warm here, but we maxed out at 56 F - not bad at all. Makes me happy. If the forecast is right, we should be in the mid-50s for a few days at least.

207 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:49:22am

FL will become Waterworld because no one in their govt acknowledges climate change?

Florida Officials Ban The Term ‘Climate Change’

thinkprogress.org

I think I’d be looking at houseboats pretty soon.

208 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 9:50:35am

re: #205 ObserverArt

Awesome, I’d love to hear it.
Heh. Here’s some comedy from craigslist.

WHITE & GOLD Acoustic Guitar - $40

Selling my acoustic guitar because I no longer know what color it is, it has ruined my reality here, so I’m moving to Seattle to get as far away from this black hole of existence as possible.

209 BeenHereAwhile  Mar 8, 2015 9:52:09am

re: #200 Justanotherhuman

I’m not gloating, but I think we’re done with winter. Sunny and 70 today, and the rest of the week looks pretty much the same, with lows in the 40s.

Spring-like, and I like. : )

The Ross Ice Shelf has finally melted from my driveway.

210 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:55:01am

re: #208 Amory Blaine

Haha, this is really funny. ” It will get you laid simply by sitting on a mantel looking sexy, as well as the inevitable ice-breaker on what color it truly is.”

211 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 9:55:48am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

FL will become Waterworld because no one in their govt acknowledges climate change?

Florida Officials Ban The Term ‘Climate Change’

thinkprogress.org

I think I’d be looking at houseboats pretty soon.

Jeeesusss…that is Florida politics for you.

“Hey, maybe if we ban the term climate change it will all go away”

212 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 9:55:53am

re: #209 BeenHereAwhile

I’ve been laughing at that ever since I read it. : )

213 Belafon  Mar 8, 2015 9:57:41am

re: #211 ObserverArt

“The great thing about climate change is that it doesn’t care if you believe it or not.”

Or something like that.

214 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 9:57:56am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman


I posted this pic I took last February from the street behind Ocean Drive in South Beach. If you look you can see some work signs. The whole street was tore up for a sewer project. Little did I know at the time it was a water pumping project for the annual flooding they have.
215 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:00:18am

re: #214 Amory Blaine

Wonder how many bitcoins payments that driver gets? 2? None? : )

216 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 10:01:54am

2 bits of a bitcoin!!

217 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:02:46am

re: #216 Amory Blaine

I see a rowboat in his future…

218 #FergusonFireside  Mar 8, 2015 10:06:09am
219 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 10:07:04am

Just got to thinking…

What would happen if some decent religious leaders got together and said they had prayed to God for inspiration and answers and He told them Climate Change is all His doing as a way for the earth to adjust to the issues and that man, just like the dinosaur, is subject to be eliminated because that is God’s plan?

They could say God had told them that is why there were the great floods and only people that listened to nature (Noah!) were able to be spared.

I figure the Kochs and others like them would immediately claim these religious people didn’t know anything and to follow them would be foolish.

220 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:07:53am

Snapchat management holds talks with Saudi’s Prince Alwaleed

reuters.com

(snip)

“On the agenda of discussions was future potential business cooperation between Kingdom Holding and Snapchat in the technology field,” Kingdom Holding, which is 95 percent owned by Prince Alwaleed, said in a statement without elaborating.

“The billionaire prince has made a number of investments in technology brands in the past, including social messaging service Twitter and Chinese e-commerce company jd.com Inc.” More

221 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 10:17:48am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

FL will become Waterworld because no one in their govt acknowledges climate change?

Florida Officials Ban The Term ‘Climate Change’

thinkprogress.org

I think I’d be looking at houseboats pretty soon.

Who knew Sgt Schultz would move from comedic character to role model? O_o

222 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 10:20:09am

Good morning everyone. Here’s a little morning music:
openculture.com

“…How’s this for fusion? Here we have The Sachal Studios Orchestra, based in Lahore, Pakistan, playing an innovative cover of “Take Five,” the jazz standard written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1959. Before he died last year, Brubeck called it the “most interesting” version he had ever heard. Once you watch the performance above, you’ll know why.”

223 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:26:10am

re: #222 jaunte

Not only “interesting” but the individuals on guitar and sitar are wonderful, as well as the drummer.

224 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 10:27:10am

I have jerry-rigged a BANANA HANGER!!!

They don’t have banana hangers here, and it’s my preferred method. So, I took a thingie that’s used to hang up pictures on the wall here in Europe, then I put a shoestring around the hook part, melted the hook part and tapped it shut with a hammer, put on the key ring and the large S-hook, and PRESTO!

Banana hanger!

225 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:28:08am

Church of England’s 1st female bishop installed at Chester Cathedral - @bbcnews_ticker

bbc.com

‘bout time.

226 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 10:28:49am

re: #220 Justanotherhuman

ITZ TEH CREEPING SNAPCHARIA!!

227 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 10:29:45am
228 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 10:30:06am

re: #224 Dr Lizardo

Efficient use of space. Looks good.

229 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 10:33:15am

re: #222 jaunte

Good morning everyone. Here’s a little morning music:
openculture.com

Nice!

That is what I find fantastic about music. How one tune can be reinterpreted in different styles for different cultures and tastes.

230 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 10:36:04am

re: #222 jaunte

Good morning everyone. Here’s a little morning music:
openculture.com

Wow, that’s great!

231 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 10:36:54am

re: #230 wrenchwench

I guess it’s really afternoon music, but I haven’t set my clocks yet.

232 Dr Lizardo  Mar 8, 2015 10:39:44am

re: #228 Amory Blaine

Efficient use of space. Looks good.

I live in a studio apartment, so I have to maximize space. :)

Thanks.

233 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 10:40:22am

re: #229 ObserverArt

At the same site: Voodoo Chile on a Korean Gayageum
openculture.com

234 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 10:42:24am

Believe it or not, there are lots of people who believe that this ugly rendering of Veronica’s Veil is the actual Veil with the actual imprint of Jesus’ face.

Image: voltosanto.jpg

The Manoppello Veil.

235 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 10:43:13am

re: #231 jaunte

I guess it’s really afternoon music, but I haven’t set my clocks yet.

Arizona thinks they don’t change their clocks, but half the year they’re on New Mexico time, and half the year they’re on California time. But New Mexico may join them.

236 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 10:44:22am

re: #233 jaunte

At the same site: Voodoo Chile on a Korean Gayageum
openculture.com

Too bad Jimi isn’t around to see that. He would have loved it.

237 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:44:29am

re: #233 jaunte

I’ve seen that one before. She’s really good. : )

238 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:46:19am

re: #236 ObserverArt

Munchkins says: “I like that!”

239 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 10:50:07am

re: #238 Justanotherhuman

Munchkins says: “I like that!”

Munchkin has a great great grandma to be teaching him and turning him onto all the things like you do.

240 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 10:51:02am

More from Luna Lee—“Rollin’ and Tumblin’”

…

241 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 10:52:14am

Question I know someone here has an instant answer for…

Wire: is the higher number gauge the heavier thickness?

242 #FergusonFireside  Mar 8, 2015 10:52:56am

re: #234 Nyet

Believe it or not, there are lots of people who believe that this ugly rendering of Veronica’s Veil is the actual Veil with the actual imprint of Jesus’ face.

Image: voltosanto.jpg

The Manoppello Veil.

Reminds me of that lady who restored the fresco

oops
243 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 10:53:01am

re: #241 allegro

Lower number = heavier wire

244 wrenchwench  Mar 8, 2015 10:53:28am
245 ObserverArt  Mar 8, 2015 10:56:37am

Later all…got some woodwork to rehang…then some basketball games to watch with some friends.

246 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 10:57:13am

re: #243 jaunte

Lower number = heavier wire

Thank you! You are my hero of the day! :D

247 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 10:58:50am

re: #243 jaunte

Lower number = heavier wire

It’s the reciprocal of the thickness: 16-gauge is 1/16”, 12-gauge is 1/12” and so on.

248 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 11:03:18am

re: #247 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

It’s the reciprocal of the thickness: 16-gauge is 1/16”, 12-gauge is 1/12” and so on.

Ohhh, I did not know that. Thanks! My dragon thanks you as well cuz a dragon with limp wings is a sad, sad thing.

249 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:04:42am

re: #247 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

It’s the reciprocal of the thickness: 16-gauge is 1/16”, 12-gauge is 1/12” and so on.

I’ll be darned—I had no idea, but it makes perfect sense.

250 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 11:06:28am

re: #249 CuriousLurker

I’ll be darned—I had no idea. but it makes perfect sense.

Glad it wasn’t just me!

251 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 11:08:02am

OK, turns out I was completely wrong about that, but that’s what they told us in electronics class.

252 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 11:08:37am

Working on conquering the functionality of this laptop without a mouse while sitting on the patio w/o a mouse.

And my lap is too small…

253 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:08:49am

re: #250 allegro

Glad it wasn’t just me!

It always struck me as off that the numbers seemed to run in the “wrong” direction, but I never bothered to try to find out why. Now I know. I love LGF.

254 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:09:37am

re: #251 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

OK, turns out I was completely wrong about that, but that’s what they told us in electronics class.

Drat!

255 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 11:10:34am

re: #253 CuriousLurker

It always struck me as off that the numbers seemed to run in the “wrong” direction, but I never bothered to try to find out why. Now I know. I love LGF.

I thought I remembered that as well, that it seemed backwards but wanted to ask here to make sure. I need a heavier weight florist wire and didn’t want to order a wrong thing.

256 Jay C  Mar 8, 2015 11:14:01am

re: #242 #FergusonFireside

Reminds me of that lady who restored the fresco

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I read a newspaper report a few months ago that said that that Spanish church whose parishioner’s self-motivated - if insufficiently self-taught - restoration project resulted in Simian Jesus there has seen a dramatic uptick in visitors (and donations). Apparently, once word got out about that hideous picture, people from all over started flocking to the church, mainly (they guess) to see for themselves just how bad it really is. And have been weighing down the collection plate in appreciation for the experience.

There’s a lesson here somewhere, but I’ll happily admit it’s above my pay-grade to figure out….

257 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 11:14:55am

re: #242 #FergusonFireside

Reminds me of that lady who restored the fresco

Image: oops

Her J is cuter :)

258 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 11:15:31am

Andrew Young
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking at Brown Chapel in Selma just now.

He referred to the 1965 shooting of church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama State trooper, repeating the phrase three times:

“An unarmed young black man. An unarmed young black man. An unarmed young black man.”

facebook.com

259 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 11:17:33am

Completely off-topic, but my girlfriend’s niece took her out for a (belated) birthday lunch yesterday and gave her a card that has Sheldon Cooper staring at you: “It’s your birthday. I am freezing time so it lasts forever.” Inside: “Happy permanent birthday!”

We’re still laughing.

260 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 11:19:11am

re: #259 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

That is sweet and funny. :)

261 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:20:48am

re: #255 allegro

I thought I remembered that as well, that it seemed backwards but wanted to ask here to make sure. I need a heavier weight florist wire and didn’t want to order a wrong thing.

My first encounter with wire gauges was needing wire for a small paperclay armature. When I started buying colored “art” wire it became even more important. Even if the explanation was wrong, it sure is a good way to remember.

Random bit of trivia: Most standard paperclips are about 20 gauge, which makes a good reference point that pretty much everyone is familiar with.

262 A Cranky One  Mar 8, 2015 11:20:53am

re: #255 allegro

Wire was historically made by drawing it though a die to make it smaller. Originally, the number indicated the number of times it had been drawn through the die to reduce the diameter.

So, 10 gauge was drawn 10 times. Drawing it through a die 2 more times to make it smaller would give you 12 gauge. Draw it through the die another 10 times to get 22 gauge (a thin fine wire).

263 Dr. Matt  Mar 8, 2015 11:21:34am

Mark Halperin Doesn’t Believe Hillary Clinton Will Be President Over Emails

Halperin is such a turd stain.

264 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 11:22:03am

re: #261 CuriousLurker

Good tip and easy to remember.

265 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 11:22:08am

re: #260 PhillyPretzel

That is sweet and funny. :)

It also has a diagram of the apparatus used—it might be from The Museum of Unworkable Devices.

266 A Cranky One  Mar 8, 2015 11:24:28am

re: #265 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’ll have some fun at that link. Thanks!

267 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 11:24:31am

As always, I bow to the amazing knowledge base of LGF.

268 Great White Snark  Mar 8, 2015 11:25:20am

re: #254 CuriousLurker

re: #255 allegro

re: #251 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Don’t anyone feel bad. In my biz we traditionally went with the old B&S from 8 Ga at the tick end to 30 Ga at the thin end. Our actual workers are from all over the world Europe, Armenia, Mexico, Phillipines and the American heartland. The whole sheet and wire order conversation requires we catalog by all the sizes.

pmwest.us

269 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:27:14am

re: #268 Great White Snark

Don’t anyone feel bad. In my biz we traditionally went with the old B&S from 8 Ga at the tick end to 30 Ga at the thin end. Our actual workers are from all over the world Europe, Armenia, Mexico, Phillipines and the American heartland. The whole sheet and wire order conversation requires we catalog by all the sizes.

pmwest.us

So what’s “dwt”?

270 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 11:27:15am

OK, yesterday I complained about wingnuts mixing up two Tony Robinsons.

Now The Smoking Gun reports that they’re the same guy after all:

thesmokinggun.com

And this seems to confirm it:

host.madison.com

Doris King said she asked Robinson about his involvement because, she said, it was so out of character.

“He felt he was under a lot of pressure from the others to do what he did,” she said. “He told me he would never do anything like that again.”

I admit my mistakes when I’m wrong.
But the photo of the 18 y.o. Robinson still looks nothing like the recent photos. Though I guess at that age 1 year makes a difference.

271 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 11:27:46am

re: #269 CuriousLurker

penny weight.

272 Great White Snark  Mar 8, 2015 11:29:08am

re: #269 CuriousLurker

Oh haha my bad that’s 1/20th of a Troy ounce or 1.55 grams. Troy ounce is 31.1 grams btw. I suppose I should make that clear in the web site but it’s not unclear to anyone that uses it.

273 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:30:00am

re: #271 PhillyPretzel

penny weight.

Oh great, but the abbreviation is dwt. Why does math & science-y stuff always have to be so damned confusing??

Oh, and thanks. ;)

274 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 11:33:13am

re: #273 CuriousLurker

The mystique of the jewelry industry. I would have to research that subject.

275 Charles Johnson  Mar 8, 2015 11:34:22am
276 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:35:02am

re: #272 Great White Snark

Oh haha my bad that’s 1/20th of a Troy ounce or 1.55 grams. Troy ounce is 31.1 grams btw. I suppose I should make that clear in the web site but it’s not unclear to anyone that uses it.

Great, more numbers. :-/ Thank goodness for Google giving me the ability to quickly convert measurements. I’d be lost without it.

re: #271 PhillyPretzel

I’d ask why it’s called a penny weight, but I probably don’t want to know as it’ll almost surely make things even more confusing. //

277 A Cranky One  Mar 8, 2015 11:37:53am

re: #274 PhillyPretzel

The mystique of the jewelry industry. I would have to research that subject.

I’d like to research it as well. So everyone please send me their jewelry to study! <evil grin>

278 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 11:38:58am

re: #273 CuriousLurker

The dwt abbreviation came from dirhem:

“…Circulating within the Arabic domain was a silver Dirhem of 45 full grown barley grains, which was a quarter of a Persian Khorine or a third of a Greek Attic Stater. Ten Dirhems made a Wukryeh of 450 grains which we call an ounce from the Latin “uncia” or twelfth, which name is used genetically for such a class of weight or volume.

This unit of weight, and value, was widely used in the Mediterranean area, and entered Europe mainly through land routes to become key measures of weight and money.”
dozenalsociety.org.uk

279 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 11:39:01am

re: #276 CuriousLurker

pennyweight history from Wiki. It is Latin that gives us the abbreviation. en.wikipedia.org

And jaunte explanation too.

280 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 11:40:29am

re: #273 CuriousLurker

Oh great, but the abbreviation is dwt. Why does math & science-y stuff always have to be so damned confusing??

Oh, and thanks. ;)

Actually it’s pretentious classical stuff. Pounds, shillings, and pence were abbreviated Lb., s., and d. for Latin Librum/solidus/denarius.

ETA: Slow fingers again!

281 CuriousLurker  Mar 8, 2015 11:46:14am

re: #278 jaunte

re: #279 PhillyPretzel

OFFS, see what I mean? Excuse me while I….

282 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 11:46:30am

re: #275 Charles Johnson

I don’t know what that bracelet was about, but it was not about the armed robbery.

The Instagram photo was posted on Jan. 12, 2014:

instagram.com

The robbery happened on April 25, 2014:

cityofmadison.com

283 CleverToad  Mar 8, 2015 12:00:40pm

51 degrees in the Denver ‘burbs. The last icicle has fallen off the north-facing gutter. The sullen heap of snow by the driveway is about half its previous size.

And I saw my first dandelion yesterday.

Springtime in the Rockies! Which is to say we’ll get one or two more snowstorms in the Metro area but it won’t stick more than a day or so. Traditionally the last frost was around Mother’s Day, though that’s changing with the climate. Time to open all the windows (yay!) and start thinking about yardwork again (not so yay).

284 Snarknado!  Mar 8, 2015 12:00:41pm

re: #273 CuriousLurker

Oh great, but the abbreviation is dwt. Why does math & science-y stuff always have to be so damned confusing??

Oh, and thanks. ;)

British. d= penny s= shilling £= pound. Dunno why “d.”

Edit: also slow-fingered. Neither of those explanations sounds good, though. Although one may be right.

285 Varek Raith  Mar 8, 2015 12:02:12pm

re: #273 CuriousLurker

Oh great, but the abbreviation is dwt. Why does math & science-y stuff always have to be so damned confusing??

Oh, and thanks. ;)

Don’t get me started on imaginary numbers.

286 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 12:03:02pm

re: #285 Varek Raith

Don’t get me started on imaginary numbers.

You mean like bitcoin?

287 Snarknado!  Mar 8, 2015 12:04:38pm

re: #285 Varek Raith

Don’t get me started on imaginary numbers.

I checked out at transcendentals.

288 Teukka  Mar 8, 2015 12:06:40pm

re: #285 Varek Raith

Don’t get me started on imaginary numbers.

Reminds me of an answering machine joke:

“_ - ¯ You have reached an imaginary number. Please rotate the telephone 90° and try again.”

Not that many get the joke.

289 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 8, 2015 12:15:44pm
290 Nyet  Mar 8, 2015 12:19:18pm

re: #285 Varek Raith

Don’t get me started on imaginary numbers.

*gets Varek started on imaginary numbers*

291 blueraven  Mar 8, 2015 12:20:37pm

So Lindsey Graham was asked on MTP if he uses a personal email acct.
He answered that he had never sent an email.

Seriously?

nbcnews.com

292 Varek Raith  Mar 8, 2015 12:25:22pm

re: #291 blueraven

So Lindsey Graham was asked on MTP if he uses a personal email acct.
He answered that he had never sent an email.

Seriously?

nbcnews.com

I find that somewhat difficult to believe.

293 PhillyPretzel  Mar 8, 2015 12:26:01pm

re: #291 blueraven

My late dad never had an email account but he did sent an email to a fellow instructor, when fellow instructor was in Italy.

294 allegro  Mar 8, 2015 12:26:21pm

re: #292 Varek Raith

I find that somewhat difficult to believe.

So Luddite or liar?

295 BeachDem  Mar 8, 2015 12:26:50pm

re: #291 blueraven

So Lindsey Graham was asked on MTP if he uses a personal email acct.
He answered that he had never sent an email.

Seriously?

nbcnews.com

So I guess all the emails I’ve sent him (as a constituent) just went into some black hole. Good to know.

296 A Cranky One  Mar 8, 2015 12:27:21pm

re: #291 blueraven

So Lindsey Graham was asked on MTP if he uses a personal email acct.
He answered that he had never sent an email.

Seriously?

nbcnews.com

I’ve worked for companies where executives had their staff print all emails to them so they could read the emails. Seriously.

297 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 12:27:54pm

re: #291 blueraven

298 blueraven  Mar 8, 2015 12:28:22pm

re: #292 Varek Raith

I find that somewhat difficult to believe.

Maybe it is one of those “technically true” answers, in that he has someone else handle his emails.

299 Dr. Matt  Mar 8, 2015 12:28:39pm

re: #291 blueraven

So Lindsey Graham was asked on MTP if he uses a personal email acct.
He answered that he had never sent an email.

Seriously?

nbcnews.com

It could explain why he’s completely out of touch with reality.

300 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 12:30:18pm

Lindsey Graham is on the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law:

Jurisdiction: (1) Oversight of laws and policies governing the collection, protection, use and dissemination of commercial information by the private sector, including online behavioral advertising, privacy within social networking websites and other online privacy issues; (2) Enforcement and implementation of commercial information privacy laws and policies; (3) Use of technology by the private sector to protect privacy, enhance transparency and encourage innovation; (4) Privacy standards for the collection, retention, use and dissemination of personally identifiable commercial information; and (5) Privacy implications of new or emerging technologies.

judiciary.senate.gov

301 Varek Raith  Mar 8, 2015 12:34:29pm

re: #298 blueraven

Maybe it is one of those “technically true” answers, in that he has someone else handle his emails.

…

302 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 12:35:33pm

re: #300 jaunte

Hard to believe—oh wait. I was going to say putting a Luddite on that committee, but never mind. He’s a Republican.

303 Dr. Matt  Mar 8, 2015 12:36:13pm
304 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 8, 2015 12:36:15pm

Party time.

305 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 12:39:54pm
306 Jenner7  Mar 8, 2015 12:41:15pm

Can I just say I love Simon Pegg? He is so good in everything he’s done. I’m watching Hector and the Search for Happiness. My favorite is Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

307 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 12:42:55pm

Fucking racist bastards.

KKK fliers left at Selma homes on 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

al.com

308 Jenner7  Mar 8, 2015 12:43:07pm
309 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 8, 2015 12:44:19pm

re: #305 Justanotherhuman

[Embedded content]

Are any of these pictures making it onto the MSM? Or are they as invisible as the enormous anti-war marches from 2002-3, while a dozen or so teabagger Hoveround commandos were made to look like an army group?

310 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 12:48:05pm

re: #309 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Jim Zorn is evidently w/the local CBS affiliate.

MSNBC is supposed to live-video it, but they’re late starting.

msnbc.com

311 Justanotherhuman  Mar 8, 2015 12:49:53pm

BBL.

312 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 12:50:09pm

re: #306 Jenner7

Want anything from the shop?
Cornetto.

313 Kragar  Mar 8, 2015 12:51:10pm

“Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon,” Che began, “said that homosexuality is a choice because many people go to prison straight, but when they come out, they’re gay. Kind of like how in that last sentence, Carson went in as a neurosurgeon and came out as a complete idiot.”

Jost followed by saying, “Dr. Carson, a neurosurgeon, said last week that homosexuality was a choice. Dr. Carson made the comments to himself — over and over — in the men’s locker room.”

314 Amory Blaine  Mar 8, 2015 12:56:34pm
315 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 8, 2015 1:13:53pm
316 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 8, 2015 1:15:30pm

re: #315 The Mother Of All Pies

317 jaunte  Mar 8, 2015 1:16:48pm
318 A Cranky One  Mar 8, 2015 1:19:57pm

re: #315 The Mother Of All Pies

Probably a smart move. The static load on the bridge might be too much. Especially on an older bridge. For example:

Golden Gate Bridge bends due to weight of crowd


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