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FIRSTICUS
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The Iranian insanity perpetrated by JugEars and Company is as wildly dangerous and reckless as juggling jars of nitroglycerin. On an unicycle. going down a bumpy hillside. Blindfolded.
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Dang when did y’all sneak this in, twern’t here a few minutes ago?
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SD, any critters this morning?
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Chris Salcedo speculated on the radio this am that Jade Helm 15 is the first attempt using AI to predict and dictate troop movements based on social media chatter. This means that there will be increased scrutiny and “monitoring ” of what is happening in cyberspace.
There is no such thing as private communication any more, unless maybe one restricts to snail mail and face to face talk in a controlled environment .
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Good morning Hamsters. The Ides of July and the heat endures for maybe another week before something pushes the high out. How’s about a cold front that makes it all the way though to the coast? Dreaming is still free.
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For some reason the edit I put on #2 is not visible. . .
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#6: Alas, Ms. Adee, I think we are about to pay for the bountiful rainfall.
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Peggy Fikac has an opinion piece masquerading as a news piece on Jade Helm 15 in the Chron, snuggled on p. B5. Snark abounds about the state’s observers likely having nothing much to observe and the confidence of Bastrop’s mayor that there’s nothing disrupting normal activities in the area.
There is the obligatory swipe at civilian volunteer observers as being fringe and extremist conspiracy theorist people. Nowhere do I see any hint that all appears to be calm and ordinary simply because of the official observers. That’s apparently beyond pay grade. Guess who will watch the watchdogs is an unheard of caution.
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#9: I guess that it never occurred to them that serial lawbreaking, lies and flagrantly unconstitutional behavior on the part of the executive branch coupled with meekness on the part of the legislature causes grave concern for we who are actually paying attention.
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Here in Texas….maybe a week.
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Bonecrusher says:
JULY 15, 2015 AT 7:08 AM
Chris Salcedo speculated on the radio this am that Jade Helm 15 is the first attempt using AI to predict and dictate troop movements based on social media chatter. This means that there will be increased scrutiny and “monitoring ” of what is happening in cyberspace.There is no such thing as private communication any more, unless maybe one restricts to snail mail and face to face talk in a controlled environment .
Yes.
Absolutely.
Its so freaking obvious.
And Salcedo’s researchers have also found proof that FDR knew that Pearl Harbor was coming.
Here’s the thing. You’re an intelligent guy, but you’re the victim of politicians eager for donations, radio and TV personalities desperate for viewers and listeners, and websites eager for click bait all of whom know exactly what kind of chum to use in the waters of a society that’s been taught Social Studies instead of History for the past 50 years and has only 3% of the population that’s ever been in the military and knows how they train.
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Adee says:
JULY 15, 2015 AT 8:28 AM
Peggy Fikac has an opinion piece masquerading as a news piece on Jade Helm 15 in the Chron, snuggled on p. B5. Snark abounds about the state’s observers likely having nothing much to observe and the confidence of Bastrop’s mayor that there’s nothing disrupting normal activities in the area.There is the obligatory swipe at civilian volunteer observers as being fringe and extremist conspiracy theorist people. Nowhere do I see any hint that all appears to be calm and ordinary simply because of the official observers. That’s apparently beyond pay grade. Guess who will watch the watchdogs is an unheard of caution.
Abbot was prudent in making sure that this is being observed, but only in the sense of the property damage that can be done, and the impacts on city and county services that can be impacted by any military activity. Bastrop’s Mayor is seeing normal activity because his city is nestled right up against the TXNG’s largest base, Camp Swift, and this kind of training is nothing new to the area.
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Seems the Pope wasn’t put off by the hammer and sickle crucifix, after all. He says so, and he took it to the Vatican when he flew home.
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#14 M42: Interesting article.
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Have y’all seen this interesting marking discovered on the dwarf planet Pluto?
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Here in Texas….maybe a week.
I’ve never seen enough snow to actually make a “pile” here.
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Nope, our piles are usually of hot and steamy stuff.
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#17 – WB, try going to Amadamarillo in the winter time. A 3 inch snow with 50 mph winds can create 10 foot drifts and the cows can wander off over the fences up to 50 miles.
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Rush is dissecting the Planned Parenthood scandal video, reading from the transcript in chilling manner the technique to harvest the unborn baby’s organs and appendages for sale. Lots of listeners likely had not seen the video or even heard about it yesterday.
Anyone who is at lunch best push lunch away for a while.
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#16 mharper
Somehow I don’t think the discovery and naming of Pluto involved honoring a cartoon dawg. More like the god of the dead and the underworld.
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I don’t know anything about Salcedo, but it doesn’t make sense and I seriously doubt U.S. troops on maneuvers in Texas would be moving and reacting to local or domestic social media activity.
This, however, is a very interesting article from the WSJ:
For the past 18 months, the U.S. has invested heavily in ways to collect and examine social-media postings on Facebook, Twitter and overseas regional networks as a source of overseas intelligence, according to Gen. Flynn and other officials. They say it could revolutionize “open-source” intelligence gathering—the kind that focuses on finding key data from publicly available sources, as opposed to intercepting private communications or stealing secrets.
Officials said government computers can aggregate material from multiple social-media networks and scan massive amounts of information already publicly available to any computer user for trends and links.
Even so, spycraft’s newest offshoot is arousing concerns. To many, mining social media is fraught with risks of privacy violations of Americans. The National Security Agency, another Pentagon intelligence agency, has been sharply criticized for collecting phone records and other data. Others see in social media a vulnerability to adversaries who plant misinformation or mount deception campaigns.
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The examination of social-media postings by military intelligence was similar to research done by journalists, including Storyful, a social-media news agency and unit of News Corp. owner of the Wall Street Journal, which scoured the Internet for images of mobile-missile batteries in eastern Ukraine. That work eventually produced evidence similar to what intelligence officials were analyzing.
The revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies were mining metadata from Americans’ phone calls provoked widespread outrage and questions about whether the government was engaging in privacy violations.
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I got a jury summons. I see that crochet hooks are considered too dangerous to bring into the courthouse. I guess that means I can’t bring my embroidery, either.
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#23 – MsTT – even fingernail clippers will set off courthouse scanners – do not be surprised if you even have to remove your shoes to pass muster for entry
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I’ll never forget the day, back in the 90s, I was going to a civil trial hearing and looked up to see Anna Nicole Smith going through the other security checkpoint next to me. They didn’t even look in her purse. She was dressed in the classic little black dress, high heels and jewelry. Anna Nicole was much prettier in person than her photos and tall, very tall.
The whole foyer of the Harris County courthouse came to a halt when she walked in. She had that presence similar to Monroe. She occupied all the space. I didn’t snap to who she was until we walked off the same elevator together and went our separate ways.
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23 TT,
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I was intrigued when I read that the Pluto exploring craft carried some ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the wee planet. I don’t think Walt Disney’s Pluto had been conceived when the 9th planet was named.
http://www.universetoday.com/20155/stowaways-revealed-on-new-horizons-spacecraft/ -
JugEars is getting some push back from his home country for his aggressively pro-gay agenda.
HEADLINE: Kenya gears for mass nude protest against Obama’s “aggressive” gay stance
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He said the protest would involve “totally naked men and women” to “demonstrate the difference between men and women.
“The procession shall be carried out by approximately 5,000 totally naked men and women to protest the President Barack Obama’s open and aggressive support for Homosexuality.
“The party’s main objective is for him to understand the difference between a man and a woman,” he said in the letter to the Police. -
You can always put a big Ace bandage around a leg and limp in to be excused.
Never.
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Tedtam says:
JULY 15, 2015 AT 2:58 PM
You can always put a big Ace bandage around a leg and limp in to be excused.Never.
You could hide you knitting needle in it.
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Have any of you read this article about the abortion argument? Awe.Some.
Now all that’s left for the liberal is to insist that the fetus — which is an offspring, which is a child — is more blobby and clumpy than older humans. The difference between life and death now hinges on a measurement of a human’s clumpiness. This is what passes for thought in liberal circles. It’s also not even accurate on its own terms, considering that, arguably, the average Cinnabon patron is far clumpier than the average unborn human.
…it will first and most inevitably result in the euthanizing of the sick, infirm, disabled, deformed, and elderly. Putting aside any effort to quantify an individual’s blobbiness, what is really not-so-cleverly hidden in the “it’s just a blob of cells” argument is the notion that a… human’s personhood, can be determined by, first, its physical resemblance to other humans, and second, by extension, its physical development.
But if a human at an early stage of development, or at any stage before birth, is reduced to nothing more than “cells” (and limbs and brains and kidneys and a random assortment of other features that coincidentally add up to the sum total of a human being) merely because it doesn’t look completely like a born person, and isn’t developed to the same physical extent, then why would the matter suddenly be settled upon birth? What pro-aborts are contending is that we acquire our humanity in degrees. It is not absolute. … We exist, for a time, as humans without …a portion of humanity, while the rest of it will be endowed at the exact rate that we un-clumpify (again, remember, liberals are all about the science).
If this is true, if personhood is a gradual acquisition and contingent upon our physicality, why do we grant an arbitrary reprieve once the clump/human exits the birth canal? Infants don’t look like adults and aren’t developed as much…. And what about people born without an arm or a leg? …the mentally handicapped?…what about an adult without fully developed limbs? … old man who has limbs but lost his command of them over time? Is he now an elderly clump?
Logically, if the pro-aborts are correct, these individuals cannot be considered people, or at least they can’t be considered as people-y as the rest of us (once again, this is science, folks — try to keep up).
You are left, then, with only one other option. Either advocate for the mass execution of the disabled, or accept that humans are humans, and humans are people, regardless of their physical development. It’s really one or the other. You side with the slave owners, eugenicists, and Nazis of history, or with the people who defeated those tyrants. We are all human, or not. Pro-aborts say not, and it’s time they confront exactly what that means.
… you are using logic identical to the sort that has been used to justify nearly every human atrocity in the history of mankind.
On the “I’m pro-choice, not pro-abortion” argument:
Call me presumptuous, but when I hear a group of people scream that they want a particular thing “on demand and without apology,” I generally assume they must like that thing, whatever it is. They must be pro- it.
Yes, I am aware that you prefer the term “pro-choice.” But I’m afraid we cannot use that name when referring to you, due to the fact that it’s a preposterous lie. You are not pro-choice; nobody is. No group of people on Earth, aside from lunatics and toddlers, actually think “choice” should be totally legalized and sanctioned. No rational adult would seriously assert that every choice is justified simply because it was a choice. We all believe there are good choices and bad choices. Legal choices and illegal choices. Ironically liberals have an even longer list of unacceptable choices, which is why Christians are often fined for choosing not to bake cakes for homosexuals.
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…you will defend an institution that cuts humans into slices like pizza and “donates” them to scientists. A “pro-choice” person would not feel the need to shield such an institution from criticism, particularly because, no matter if the mother consented, I sincerely doubt the child signed the release form.No, this is the kind of horror you only condone if you like abortion, not if you like choice.
And you like abortion. Like, you like like abortion. You like abortion more than the average person likes cake or sunsets.
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If Katfish shows up, I need to know what the name of that power pack charging unit is that he recommended here.
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LD has a power pack. It’s nicknamed “Sunshine”.
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#32 – Yo Brother – in my BEST AOL voice: “You’ve got Mail!”
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A new blog.
The Benedict Post -
At first glance I thought #26 was response to 25. It was really funny, wish y’all was there.
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#31 TT: Devastating to the pro-abort crowd. Not that they give a schizzle, however, they want to continue to worship molech.
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If you don’t need anything as elaborate as Katfish’s power pack, I bought one of these and it works great.
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#39 Didja miss this one?
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Bones,
I was trying to keep the size/weight reasonable for portability. That one is pretty thick.
I can recommend Katfish’s power pack if size doesn’t matter. -
if size doesn’t matter
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If I can’t recharge the power pack following five phone charges, I have probably left the planet.
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I originally said “Katfish’s unit”, but changed the verbiage.Obviously, it made no difference.
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Katfish’s will change a flat for you.
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Have the Jade Helm tanks leveled Bastrop yet?
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Yes.
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#28 Bonecrusher
Hope JugEars tries to push same-sex marriage in Kenya and see what kind of reception that gets. He’s arrogant and delusional enough to do it.
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The Benedict Option article contains a link to Pope Francis 1 leaving in Bolivia the “Gift” of the crucifix attached to the Soviet Union symbol. I believe there was some question whether he took it with him or not. Must conclude since he left it behind it was not pleasing to him.
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The Benedict paper states that he left it, the APP story states that he took it to Rome – which is correct?
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I’d bet on the Benedict paper link long before believing the Ass press.
It was an AP dingbat reporter who suggested Texas could do an electronic transfer on its gold bullion. Interestingly, when the Chron ran that very same AP article, it left out the electronic transfer of the gold suggestion. Wonder why?
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