Wednesday’s Top Hand Comment Thread
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FIRSTICUS!
Get up you slackers, it’s HUMP DAY. -
Second!
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Pearl Harbor Day, a day that will live forever in infamy.
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Mornin’ Gang -
I’m going to call this a hate crime.
HEADLINE: The moment a mom, 42, with breast cancer was ‘violated’ and reduced to tears by TSA agents who patted down her medical port and ‘tried to perform a body cavity search in public’
Radio show host Denise Albert was traveling through LAX on Sunday
She said she notified TSA about a medical port and removed cream from her bag, as she has done numerous times before without an issue
They asked her to remove her shoes, despite being a PreCheck passenger
Albert’s feet are covered in sores as a result of her cancer treatment
She also removed a wig after agents said they needed to do full-body pat down
Albert warned agents of a sensitive medical port in her chest, but agent touched her anyway, leaving her feeling ‘violated’ and in tears
Supervisor finally stepped in and she received an apologySo let’s review, she was TSA pre-cleared, she is in active chemo therapy treatment and the jerk at the gate determined that she needed a full body pat down, plus a body cavity search?!?
I am sure that nothing will come of this and the gate agent will get a promotion instead of being fired.
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Those TSA thugs will continue just as long as we allow them to. They are already the largest government union and wield political as well as physical power. Thanks George Bush.
Just above freezing out here in the centex area. Supposed to see snowflakes this evening or tomorrow. -
What is going on behind the scenes of this lunacy?
HEADLINE: Millions of wasted dollars later, Trump gains votes during recount in Wisconsin
This hopeless nut-case, Jill Stein, is suing the state of PA in federal court to attempt to force them to do a recount. This is absent even a trace of evidence that there was anything fraudulent on the part of Trump.
The whole thing is adding to the unheard of pressure on the electors to change their pledged vote on Dec 19.
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I am about to start on a special project here at the office, I am going to destroy about 30 hard drives. I have chosen a sledge hammers for the task, one a 3 lb maul and the other an 8lb full handle beast. I have safety goggles so I don’t damage my eyeballs.
Not as fun as the stuff SuperDave gets to do but I still get to break stuff. -
I hear that a 30-06 at about 100 yards can be a fun way of working with hard drives, but hammers are also fun.
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The guy that gave me the task suggest a drill, but that doesn’t seem to destroy the disk enough – how much carnage can one cause with just a drill fer cryin out loud??
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#8 Bones, be sure to save the dampening magnets in the corner of the drives. They’re rare earth magnets and UNBELIEVABLY strong! I discovered this a few years ago when I destroyed several old home computer drives. I dare you to take the largest ones and try to put them together. They’re pinger finchers.
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Hillary has people.
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Every man needs his own personal set of pinger finchers! Morning, everybody.
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#11 SD: I have just been smashing them, really just a big dent on the hub housing. I will have to try and unscrew a few of them to be more methodical in retrieving the magnets.
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When L’il Toshiba died, I was reluctant to just turn it in for recycling, because I figgered the hard drive data could still be retrieved. I finally held in both hands and from about four feet off the concrete floor, dropped it. Picked it up, turned it over, dropped it again. I did that a few more times.
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Wish I’d thought about those magnets….
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#9 El Gordo, I like 44’s, I once hung an old Master lock on a wire tied to a tree limb. After the KaBoom, the clasp was swinging but the lock had disappeared, nowhere to be found. Several years later, I was disking the corn field that was about 200 yards away and found the lock, intact but bent into a “C” shape and missing the clasp. 😀
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“The dollar is on a tear, and that is shaping corporate strategy on both sides of the Atlantic. U.S. exporters are bracing for tough times. Their goods overseas are suddenly more expensive in many places, and foreign earnings are worth less when translated back into dollars. For European exporters, by contrast, the dollar’s strength has created opportunity. The U.S. currency has strengthened 4.3% since the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, recently approaching a 14-year high, giving the companies pricing power over U.S. competitors.” – WSJ
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“After the 114th Congress expires, but before the 2016 class of senators is sworn into the 115th Congress, there will only be 66 senators. Thirty-four of those senators (32 Democrats and two Independents) would then constitute a majority. Vice President Joe Biden, who under the Constitution also serves as the president of the Senate and may therefore serve as the body’s presiding officer whenever he pleases, would refuse to recognize any motions made by Republicans and would grant the floor to Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Obama would re-nominate Garland to the Supreme Court, the Senate would immediately take up Durbin’s motion to confirm Garland, and then Democrats would use the nuclear option to ram through Garland’s confirmation with only 34 of 100 duly elected senators voting in the affirmative.
“Sounds super clever, right? If you are completely ignorant of how the Senate works, it probably sounds great. If you are remotely familiar with Senate rules, precedents, customs, and procedures, however, it will likely strike you as nonsense. To be clear, this scheme has no basis in reality. To be believed, it requires one to completely ignore the Constitution, the Standing Rules of the Senate, Senate precedent, and basic common sense. -
Ol’ ElGordo, born just a few decades too soon…
http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/07/real-goal-sexbots-artificial-reproduction-making-women-obsolete/
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Richard Ibrahim (my guess is that that is a Middle Eastern surname) majes a very valid point as to a huge problem Islam and the world has to deal with.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/12/07/mainstream-media-still-omits-uncomfortable-truth-about-muslim-grievances/ -
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Good luck with that.
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Yo TexPat (aka my elder-brother-from-another-Mother)
Here’s a bit of a tangential tidbit following Your recent advisement of angst against Levi Strauss & Co.
(from the fine folks at Texas Law Shield / US Law Shield of which I’m a member)
Last week, Levi Strauss Chief Executive Chip Bergh posted an open letter on LinkedIn asking the company’s customers not to bring weapons into the company’s stores. Does Bergh’s statement raise legal problems for LTC permit holders in Texas?
From Bergh’s statement:“Providing a safe environment to work and shop is a top priority for us at Levi Strauss & Co. That imperative is quickly challenged, however, when a weapon is carried into one of our stores. Recently, we had an incident in one of our stores where a gun inadvertently went off, injuring the customer who was carrying it.
So, while we understand the heartfelt and strongly-held opinions on both sides of the gun debate, it is with the safety and security of our employees and customers in mind that we respectfully ask people not to bring firearms into our stores, offices or facilities, even in states where it’s permitted by law. Of course, authorized members of law enforcement are an exception.
“It’s not an anti-Second Amendment thing,” Bergh told Fortune magazine. The denim apparel maker stopped short of issuing an outright ban on firearms. Bergh, 59, is a former U.S. Army captain and claimed he is currently not a gun owner.
“You don’t need a gun to try on a pair of jeans and it’s really out of respect for the safety of our employees and consumers shopping in our stores,” Bergh told Fortune.”MY comment – OH Heyull NO!
And part of the TLS response from the (I must say) GORGEOUS program Attorney Michele Byington:Texas & U.S. Law Shield commenters on our Facebook pages pointed out, however, that it is necessary to bring your carry handgun if you’re trying on pants, otherwise, “How do you know the jeans will fit over your IWB holster?” said Chris W. The positioning of belt loops on the waistband can also affect where OWB is most comfortable, others mentioned. And the cut and size of pockets affects pocket carry, commenters said.
The legal issue for Texas Law Shield Members is, does Bergh’s statement constitute legal notice under the state’s 30.06 and 30.07 statutes?
Independent Program Attorney Michele Byington, of the Houston-based Walker & Byington law firm and a contributing legal editor for Texas Law Shield’s blog, said, “Do his statements give LTC holders proper notice to prohibit them from carrying into a Levi’s store? Nope.”
She added, “We’ve seen these sorts of statements before from Target and Starbuck’s executives, but they have no legal bearing on Texas LTC holders. In order to prohibit an LTC holder from carrying into a store, there are three ways to give effective notice.”read it ALL HERE
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Hubby wanted me to find his neckwarmer. Can’t.
I found a pattern, it’s only 70 rounds, I might be able to whip one out before it gets real cold.
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We could all pitch in this year and get one for Hammie…
http://mashable.com/2016/12/06/leather-wrapped-rock-nordstrom/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-viral-link%23UeQbzs.E5lq0#z6qJV28sPaqc -
We have a couple of Mag benches that create a massive magnetic field. I just pop all our old hard drives in that to zap ’em.
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Tedtam says:
DECEMBER 7, 2016 AT 12:45 PM
Hubby wanted me to find his neckwarmer. Can’t.
I found a pattern, it’s only 70 rounds, I might be able to whip one out before it gets real cold.
Maybe. I teach my class tonight…70 rounds?
You need to sight that puppy in—- -
http://wgxa.tv/news/local/two-officers-shot-in-americus-suspect-remains-at-large
Hope this turkey dies in a hailstorm of bullets aimed his way.
But that’s just me. -
#25 TT
Bandannas make great neck warmers, if you’ve got one handy. -
SD: I really wish I had read your post about the magnets BEFORE I took the 8lb sledge hammer to the hard drives. I was able to disassemble the drives on the few I did not smash fairly easily and extract the magnet, then smacking the disk package was much easier. The ones that got smacked were harder to disassemble, but the upshot is I now have the magnets from about 30 drives.
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Why not just chip everyone?
House Republican leadership plans to bring an autism bill directly to the House floor this week from the Judiciary Committee that directs the federal government to assist state and local agencies to use “tracking technology” to find dementia patients and developmentally-disabled children.
The legislation instructs the U.S. attorney general to award grants to law enforcement or state and local public safety agencies so that those agencies can create, establish and operate “locative tracking technology programs.”http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/05/source-gop-leadership-to-bring-human-gps-tracking-bill-to-floor-this-week/
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So, what are you going to do with these magnets? Put them on the refrigerator?
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I guess you could glue them to the wall and hang your sledgehammers up there.
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#22 Darren: That is an excellent article and really should be read by all the couch critters in its entirety. Imagine the most vile klansman around and he is in the presence of blacks, now multiply that times 100 and you get how muzzies feel when they are not treated as if they are superior. Don’t ever trust a muzzy, he will likely kill you.
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#33 Shannon:
So, what are you going to do with these magnets? Put them on the refrigerator?
As SuperDave indicated, they darn sure are pinger finchers. If you put one directly to the fridge with nothing under it, you will prolly scratch the paint trying to get it off.
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Put a couple on your Crown Victoria’s oil pan to catch the metal shavings. 😀
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#31 Bones,
but the upshot is I now have the magnets from about 30 drives.
Dayaam, be careful you’ll change the magnetic around your neck of the woods and have aircraft circling your house, looking for Intergalactic.
#37 GJT, Dang good idea there. -
I was taught Fortran at A&M by a guy who used to program for the Pentagon. He flew in every Wednesday night to teach a 3 hour class. Short guy, but really smart.
I remember when he told us that if anyone brought in cassette tapes or other magnetic storage devices into the building, for example, a Linda Ronstadt tape to listen to while working, it wasn’t making it out of the building. Everyone was searched and anything along those lines was dropped through a big degausser at the door.
And you’d be handed back a blank tape. -
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70 rounds?
You need to sight that puppy in—-😀
This is why I love you guys! -
Follow up to my #39:
Because he was such an advanced programmer and pushed us, we were the only class to learn linear linked lists among the same level programming courses.
And he gave us a brief synopsis how anti-missile systems were programmed.
NO ONE else got that information!
But then we ticked him off when we left after our test during the first half class the night of bonfire. -
Walter E. Williams explains the origins of and the purpose for the Electoral College.
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Great pick for EPA. Only Abbott could be considered possibly better.
I hope he’s meaner than cat poop. -
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Oh yeah, red meat for us Neanderthals!! -
They’re backing off the freeze line for Friday morning, now.
So we’re not going to die until the next front. -
What about EG? Does his area still die in a freeze tonight?
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Ya know, I can still remember when The Couch was intercontinental. Big45Iron logging in from Hawaii, and the guy who was working in Morocco. He’s back in this area now, but I can’t come up with his name. Maybe y’all better have me GPS chipped in case I wander off.
I thought Texanadian had sent me an email (under his real name) a few days ago, but it looked like his mail account had just been hacked. -
Here’s the weather advisory for my area for the next several hours. Looks like I’m a goner for sure this time.
http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/Bulletins.aspx?location=USTX1212 -
Another guitar gal. Six strings and electric, not a powerful singer but the first time I heard all the words.
A little more listening, this lady is French. Not sure if she can even speak English, maybe why the words are so clear. -
TexMo lived in Morocco.
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There’s always Smackface from Jupiter.
BigIron don’t show us no love no more, but he’s still out there, once every six weeks or so I check in on KSEV and he’s on or on hold. -
Weird realizing the ’90s are classic rock now.
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Yeah, twenty years ago is s’posed to be the 70’s.
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The recount in Michigan is finally over. The hand picked Obama appointed federal judge overseeing the case was trapped and boxed and finally realized that he had to go ahead and do the right thing which was to suspend the recount. The highest state court ruled against it, and the federal appellate circuit court had already ruled that the state court rule would apply, so try as hard as he could, he’s no John Roberts and could not weasel a way to allow the useless recount to continue. Hiliary just doesn’t want to go away and continues to use surrogates for her dirty work, but I think those speech prices have been slashed recently.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/07/judge-michigan-recount/95081650/
And BTW, it seems that Van Jones (remember him, Zero appointee and acknowledged commit) is the person working behind to scenes to try to get the electors to be unfaithful. The one idiot that he has turned in Dallas is being leveraged to try to get others to do so, and I knew that a wannabe self-annointed hero complex person could not write an op-ed that would be published by a major paper.
Wrap your pets and bring your pipes in. -
Poor Dr Jill Clintonstein.
I guess it’s back to the graveyard so she can dig up another harebrained scheme for her next creation. -
Gabriella Quevedo is really incredible. She has a youtube channel with over 50 songs on it. A well played acoustic guitar is soothing to the soul.
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Howdy fellow Hamsters. Spouse was telecommuting today instead of Monday and had the computer tied to his work computer until about 3 pm. The remote hookup for the one I use has been cranky since Windows 10 arrived so more work has to be done to refine it.
Was pleased that the Chron actually had an article about Pearl Harbor Day on the front page of the first section. There were big doings in Fredericksburg today at the Museum of the War in the Pacific as you might guess.
Any article that comes from the NYT gets regularly skipped as lefty propaganda since the great unveiling of the media accomplices in trying to shelter and coddle every liberal they could got outed. That includes the weather page. -
PBS is doing their ubiquitous fundraising and running The Last Waltz.
I love it and will never tire of it. -
56, speaking of pickers. Jerry Reed was one of the best. I remember him for novelty songs and a Burt Reynolds side kick. Chet Atkins thought he was one of the best.
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#48 EG
The very cold conditions may threaten pipes, pets left outside,
sensitive plants, and particularly cold-sensitive livestock.Yep, you are a goner, for sure.
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#52 Hamous, noted some bands from back then tried comebacks here and there. Not going to mention names but they all got really old really fast. My pet peeve is Van Morrison. Why do they produce new versions of his songs? He rather got them right the first time. Just play his songs.
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And if Smacktle is trolling, fireworks are legal in San Leon. Got a safe place to launch all one wants. Warm bathroom and cold beer to boot.
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TexMo!! Right, sorry I couldn’t come up with that handle.
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Gto
While imitation may be the finest flattery, one must have a lot of testicular confidence to try and do Van Morrison.
Best give it three or four more generations and then give it a shot.
If you must.
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I thought Smacktle was from way beyond Jupiter.
Like a couple galaxies over, dude. -
If the 90’s are now classic rock, my music is going to show up on Paul Berlin.
Oh wait. That’s already happening. -
Thursday?
Mornin’ Gang -
That old North wind is non-stop this morning….not nasty yet, but will be in a few hours.
Bundle up, boys. -
The number of Houston bank and armored car robberies has always amazed me.
HPD sure got some of the perps yesterday.
Way to go.
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