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Back to the Salt Mine.
Mornin’ Gang -
Take courage, the Ominous Bill that President Trump reluctantly signed to receive the military appropriations badly needed thanks to his disgusting predecessor’s gutting of the military every chance he had is not binding. He can spend or not spend for items in it. And he surely will make choices. 🙂
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Roy wasn’t planning to start a geopolitical firestorm, infuriate China and receive dozens of death threats. He didn’t intend to become a cautionary tale of social media’s enormous power or a casualty of an American corporation’s intense fear of the Chinese government. Roy sure didn’t mean to get fired from his $14-an-hour online customer service job, a job the 49-year-old says was his best ever.
But Roy Jones did get fired. He got fired because he … inadvertently liked a tweet?
“I’m even tired of saying ‘like,’ because that infers it was willful, or on purpose,” Jones told me when we recently met at a northwest Omaha Starbucks. “It didn’t happen that way. Anybody who understands this job … anybody who used the same (Marriott system) that I did … gets how this could happen.”
and this,
Roy and no one else noticed that error that night. But a short 24 hours later, he and a lot of Marriott employees were most definitely aware.
Pro-Chinese forces were incensed that Tibet was listed as its own country on the Marriott survey. China has long made legal claim to the region and has controlled it since 1950.
Dozens of social media accounts were tweeting angry things, including many death threats, at both Roy and Marriott. This seems especially odd considering Twitter itself is officially banned in China, and thus can be accessed only by residents breaking the law or by bot accounts.
That same day, a top official in the hotel chain’s human resources department boarded a flight to Omaha, traveling here, Roy says, to fire him.
The Chinese and the Russians are all over social media, around the clock, trying to manipulate American public opinion. Our fakenews media are all wrapped up in Russian hacker fantasies, oblivious to what is really going on.
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Dr. Paul Hsieh:
The numbers of defensive gun uses (DGUs) each year is controversial. But one study ordered by the CDC and conducted by The National Academies’ Institute of Medicine and National Research Council reported that, “Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence”:
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.
Another study estimates there are 1,029,615 DGUs per year “for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere” excluding “military service, police work, or work as a security guard,” (within the range of the National Academies’ paper), yielding an estimate of 162,000 cases per year where someone “almost certainly would have been killed” if they “had not used a gun for protection.”
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Top o the Week fellow Hamsteronianites!
It appears that the central African rift zone is really rifting now right through Kenya. -
Up and at ’em, Couch Critters! Errrr… whoops, I’m prolly the last one up. Do we have anyone logging in from Hawaii?
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I’ve been up for a while, but now I’m thinking of cranking up the mower. The Bermuda is starting to green up, but the weed make the lawn look green all over. This is year 3 in my lawn recovery exercise, and frankly I’ve made pretty good progress but it’s a long way from where I would like it. Armadillos and skunks took their toll during the dormant season digging for grubs, so there are pock marks that need filling in, but the grass was pretty thin to begin with, so hopefully that will happen pretty fast. I’m finally about over my allergy attack of the last couple of weeks, so time to go out and stir it all up again. More later.
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I may have mentioned here that I listen to a local radio show called “What’s on Tap” on KPRC 950AM, Sunday 3-5 pm. I don’t even drink beer any more, but I’ve been a fan of Beer Guru James Simpson since he was local producer to the Joe Pags radio show originating from San Antonio. James may even be a hipster, but I simply find him entertaining. Yesterday’s show featured a Houston micro-brewery in the craft beer business with a great name: Spindletap.
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I’ve spent most of my morning tending to Hubby. He’s getting hisself all situated with his paperwork and such.
I woke up very reluctantly this morning. I didn’t think I’d be so tired, but my brain just feels exhausted. I could’ve used another coupla hours or so.
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Twitter via Instapundit:
Glenn Greenwald
Verified account@ggreenwald
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MoreA motion filed by Omar Mateen’s wife, seeking to dismiss the charges, reveal: FBI just admitted that Omar’s father, Seddique, worked with the FBI as an informant for 11 years (2005-16) & himself was under investigation for sending $$ to Afghanistan & Turkey
and this breaking news also from Greenwald:
Glenn Greenwald
Verified account@ggreenwald
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MoreNoor Salman’s lawyers say FBI hid these key facts until now out of embarrassment: it was due to FBI’s close relationship w/Mateen’s father that they didn’t arrest Mateen when they investigated him in 2013. Also, prosecution of Noor intended to protect real accomplice: FBI’s asset
4:28 AM – 26 Mar 2018
So 50 people died and 58 people were injured in the Orlando nightclub because of FBI incompetence ?
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#10 – Would you expect anything less from the swamp. Why the judge has not halted this trial and dismissed this case is beyond me. How many times has the government lied, withheld evidence, misrepresented situations, and otherwise been an embarrassment to the systems of justice in this county. Lawlessness seems to prevail over the concept that we are a nation of laws and not a nation of men.
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#8 M42: Mrs. Bonecrusher works for the group that owns Spindletap. The Honey Hole is outstanding as well as the stout.
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#10 texpat
A couple replies to those tweets say it pretty well (paraphrasing)
Is anyone at the FBI doing any crime fighting these days?Why does it seem like every time there’s a mass casualty event that the FBI has been aware of and/or has had the perpetrator(s) under surveillance and/or had been working with them or someone close to them for an extended period?
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Denver police take their turn at killing innocents.
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Limbaugh has posited that Trump may declare the border region a national emergency and use some of the approved military funding to build the wall. For National Security.
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#10 texpat
Seems to me that the recent disclosures would be very fertile ground upon which to base motions for a mistrial. -
#11 EG: Unless and until the perpetrators suffer painful consequences for their actions, this garbage will continue unabated. It won’t take but a few 40 year sentences handed down, with the threat for many more that the swamp will simply drain itself. Make darned sure that a few judges go in first.
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16 WB
I agree. It looks like the wife who aided and abetted her husband in the mass murder might just walk.
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#16, 18: Pulse nightclub, MSD school in parkland and who knows how many more? How much innocent blood is on FBI hands?
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Across the city, 700 dogs have been shot or shot at since 2008 by police officers who later said they feared for the safety of themselves or others. And even in cases in which the courts have found the dogs were wrongly killed and the city was ordered to pay damages to their owners, not one of those shootings has resulted in a recommendation of discipline against an officer, city records reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
Animal-rights activists say too many dogs are shot by the police. They say that, with proper training, officers can learn how to approach a seemingly aggressive dog safely and not have to resort to deadly force.
Juries have been sending a similar message to City Hall, with hefty judgments like the award given Lady’s owners in the lawsuit they filed against the city.
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Don’t BE IN Chicago. -
I’m having a very stressful day. Holee crap.
I need some beach time.
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#20 – As a general rule, municipalities don’t care about fines and judgments against them since they just add that to next year’s budget, recompute the necessary tax rate, and move on. The hurt falls on the taxpayer, not the entity involved. And a machine government like Chicago, ain’t gonna be no change in government officials.
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Mexican eagles are quite impressive. I just watched one hunting while fighting this amazing wind at about 50 feet up.
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Houston micro-brewery in the craft beer business with a great name: Spindletap.
Another brewery close to the barrio. We’ve been out there a few times. Good beer. Hipster Kroger carries a few of their brews.
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#15 bonecruser
I also heard Rush mention that today. Well, since it was not a budget bill but rather a continuing resolution, he has the latitude to do that. 🙂
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Mexican eagles are quite impressive.
You got ’em out there? I don’t think I’ve seen one north of corpus christi.
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I assume you’re talking about the Caracara.
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Twenty eight comments?? Don’t y’all know Stormy was on the TV last night??
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I’ve been trolling the Potemkin Children of the March for our Lives. They’re a quivering blob of passive aggressive emotions.
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I’m off to a public hearing about a cement plant that wants a permit to operate legally about 1/2 mile from my house. They’ve been operating there illegally for a couple of years. It’s north of me on TC Jester, and I rarely drive that section. But it’s residential, doesn’t need or want heavy industrial plant located there.
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NIMBY!! 😉
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Potemkin2
adjective
informal
Having a false or deceptive appearance, especially one presented for the purpose of propaganda.
‘a Potemkin news network, set up only to give the appearance of a free press’ -
The military depends on a constant flow of volunteers every year. According to 2017 Pentagon data, 71 percent of young Americans between 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve in the United States military. Put another way: Over 24 million of the 34 million people of that age group cannot join the armed forces—even if they wanted to.
…..Poorly educated, Obesity, Criminality….
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HEADLINE:
Women in Northwest Houston Wants Imigrant Cement Truck Drivers (Probably Cat Lovers) Out of a Job! -
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They’d probly want $17 an hour anyway.
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Yes, the Caracara.
They are quite common in Austin and Washington Counties and I’ve been watching them for years.
For years our former neighbor (next door to Fay’s home place in Millheim) was keeping a running census for some wildlife outfit.These birds also keep tabs on the vultures and will boldly walk into a large group, raising hell, and take what they want.
Fearless.
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cement plant that wants a permit to operate legally about 1/2 mile from my house.
Oh how I love the gritty feel and taste of Portland dust in the morning.
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I had no idea eagles were Democrats.
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No I guess vultures are doing the work Americans won’t do so the eagles must be Republicans robbing the poor workers.
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The eagles are undocumented raptors laid here by their parents through no fault of their own.
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So, Couch People, are those big grocers down there offering this shopping service where you just pull up and load your groceries and drive off?
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Hipster Kroger does. I never used it.
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HEB is gearing up to doing it in Brenham. It’s very enticing. With the 50 mile round trip and then the shopping, too, that trip really blows a hole in my Saturday or Sunday, every other weekend. I’d still have to make one trip for meat. Just can’t turn that over to someone else.
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Yeah, meat and vegetables, I couldn’t let someone else pick that out.
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All the beef, fish and lamb that comes into this house is picked and bought by me.
Since I’m not a big fan of feathered creatures anyway, I let Her Highness have that one.
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I’m still aggravated. All my talk radio today was split between the tide pod eaters parade and Stormy the Slut interview by Anderson the Slut. That means they all let Trump off the hook for caving to the swamp and signing the omnibust bill. I’m not prepared to let him off the hook yet though. There’s talk that he has snookered congress and that he can somehow spend the money however he wants to, but I expect that a carefully selected federal judge might argue that point should he try. Keep looking for the spin to try to soften this compacted turd so that it might pass, but I don’t see how it can. Now I hear Paul Ryan is on the way out the door – I assume he doesn’t want to be around to pass the gavel back to Stretch after the fall elections. He obviously figures he’s done as Speaker, so just as well leave on his own terms. I’m pretty sure there are several other swamp snakes who are just as bad waiting to take his place should the eReps somehow survive the election. Of course, they’ll all be blaming Trump for the losses, and they will be right to the extent he did not uphold his end of the bargain on the omnipuss bill.
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All the beef, fish and lamb that comes into this house is picked and bought by me.
OH YEAH!. Never let a woman pick a red meat, it just aint in the genes. Something about the XX genome that just messes up selecting the right cut of meat. . .Cooking is another thing entirely.
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Wife says Brookshire Bros is gearing up to do the curbside thing. Heck I’m getting ready to re-do our back porch steps and walkway and I’m not comfortable not picking out my lumber much less my groceries.
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Wife says Brookshire Bros is gearing up to do the curbside thing.
That’s frigging hilarious. With the prices they charge, they ought to shop, deliver,
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Technically, the cement batch plant is located in Acres Homes. Mayor Sly Turner attended the meeting. He now lives on the West side of TC Jester, in Oaks of Inwood, but it was still impressive to see him show up and register his opposition to the plant. I think the issue is land is cheaper in Acres Homes. The plant owner is hispanic, and in fact I think Acres Homes will sooner or later be swallowed up, along with the rest of Houston. -
#41 Hammy
The eagles are undocumented raptors laid here by their parents through no fault of their own.
So I guess they need DABA protection. Deferred Action for Bird Arrivals…
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Kroger on 43rd has several reserved spaces in front of the store, and a new door into the small new department where the Instacart program is run from. I don’t plan to ever let anyone else select my bananas.
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Kroger is proudly anti-gun. Screw ‘em.
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Kroger on 43rd has several reserved spaces in front of the store
Great, now we have fifteen reserved handicap spots, wimmin with child spaces, employee of the month slots and online shoppers??
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Boy, I must be from the stone age regarding grocery shopping. I carry out and load my own groceries, though of course some of the sackers politely ask if I would like help. I thank them and politely decline. I also return the cart to the cart corral even in bad weather unless it’s a downpour. As one who has had a broken leg and torn ankle ligaments and manage to walk normally once healed, I walk wherever I can even if it’s donkey work returning carts.
I rarely patronize the Kroger store closest to us, though it is several miles farther than the Randall’s at Pecan Grove. That is not one of the larger Randall’s and so can’t carry all the items the huge Kroger-essentially-general-store does, so occasionally I need to make a pilgrimage to the general store. 🙂 Rarely have set foot in an HEB either and never thus far in a Whole Foods. The latter pair strike me as being too ritzy for my tastes.
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I thought you were putting your Texas citizenship card in jeopardy if you didn’t go to HEB at least once a week. Sort of like Whataburger. I think you are still allowed to pass a Buc-ee’s without stopping but expect the legislature to take that up next session.
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Good Morning Hamsteronianites; it’s Tuesday, the 3rd day of the week 27Mar2018.
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