If you haven’t seen this video yet…you need to. This guy is an inspiration.
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Rise and shine.
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Tedtam
That’s an incredible story.
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Thursday already? Just when it was starting to get fun.
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Non-citizens legally register to vote in San Francisco school elections.
San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.
The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19, reported the publication.
“This is no-brainer legislation,” Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco supervisor, told the Chronicle. “Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”
“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” Norman Yee, also a county supervisor, told KGO. -
I don’t like the idea of autonomous vehicles on our roadways. I never have.
A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic
The GPS spoofing device, pictured above, is most effective when it’s planted inside or directly underneath a targeted vehicle, but it can also be operated from a drone flying overhead the targeted vehicle or tailgating automobile. The spoofer consists of the front end of an open source software-defined radio called a HackRF One, a Raspberry Pi, a battery, and an antenna. Its frequency range covers the civilian GPS band. The Raspberry Pi runs a secure shell server (SSH). The researchers built their spoofer for $223.
The attack uses the spoofer to send false location data to the GPS service, which for this demonstration was an Android phone running the Google Maps app. The SSH server receives instructions issued by a remote sender that causes the spoofer to falsify the location in a way that subtly changes the directions. Algorithms developed by the researchers help to ensure the ghost route mimics the general shape of the original route to prevent, for instance, the false directions for directing the driver from making a turn that doesn’t exist. The malicious instructions can be issued in real time by the attackers or through a pre-written script.
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#5 Texpat
I don’t like the idea of autonomous vehicles on our roadways. I never have.
Amen to that, when they first started talking about theses robot vehicles driving on the roads, I thought that there was no way that we’d ever have laws that would allow a totally autonomous rig, IE Semi, barreling down the freeway, all 87,000 lbs of her, with no sign of a driver. But, now that we’ve totally lost our collective minds, I think that it is possible that they will become legal……My proof? Read my #4. 🙁
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This is a fascinating interview when you have time to watch it. The subject is Joe Pistone, the famous undercover FBI agent who took down most of the Bonanno and Columbo crime families.
Most Hated FBI Agent in the Mafia
Pistone is hidden deep somewhere way beyond the Witness Protection Program.
When the feds pulled Pistone out of his cover in 1981 and busted over 100 mobsters in NYC, the Mafia issued a $500,000 contract on Pistone’s life. It is still in effect 37 years later.
One problem. Inflation takes its toll and the Mafia was never known for high IQs, but the amount for the hit should be $1,448,212.64 in 2018 according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
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I have a question, why is it that every time I wind up on U Tube, this video pops up on the right hand side of the page?
FWIW; I remembered this from years ago, but I have no idea who Robert Palmer is/was or if he was any good. He certainly didn’t impress me in this video, but maybe that was the reason for the girls, a distraction and they are easy on the eyes.
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The high professional quality of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s performance at their Monday press conference in Helsinki contrasts sharply with the obloquy by which the bipartisan U.S. ruling class showcases its willful incompetence.
Though I voted for Trump, I’ve never been a fan of his and I am not one now. But, having taught diplomacy for many years, I would choose the Trump-Putin press conference as an exemplar of how these things should be done. Both spoke with the frankness and specificity of serious business. This performance rates an A+.
and,
This led to the final flourish. The Associated Press reporter demanded that Trump state whether he believes the opinions of U.S. intelligence leaders or those of Putin. It would be healthy for America were it to digest Trump’s answer: The truth about the charge that Russia stole the contents of the Democratic National Committee’s computer server is not to be found in the opinions of any persons whatever. The truth can be discovered only by examining the server in question—assuming it has not been tampered with since the alleged event. But, said Trump emphatically, those making the accusations against Russia have refused to let the server be examined by U.S. intelligence or by any independent experts. What is the point of accusations coupled with refusal of access to the facts of the matter?
Where is the server ?
Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
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Morning gang. I’m a little short on wisdom to impart this hot morning. I think the heat has about sapped my brain dry of it’s thinking juices. Before long I might turn in to a democrat at this rate. You all have a great day, and if I’m struck by a bolt of wisdom, I’ll report it here first.
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Stephen B. Presser:
In May 6, 2016, as the run-up to the struggle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for the presidency began in earnest, one of the Left’s most influential and brilliant intellectuals, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet, wrote a blog entry called “Abandoning Defensive Crouch Liberal Constitutionalism.” His most important assertion in that little screed, italicized no less, was “The culture wars are over; they lost, we won.” By “they” he meant “conservatives,” and by “we” he meant “progressives.”
Tushnet, an almost unbelievably prolific and charismatic individual (and, indeed, an old friend), is wrong.
and this,
Understanding this, one can go even further. The culture wars—best understood, actually, as battles over what really constitutes American greatness—will continue as long as there is a conflict between good and evil on earth, or, as C.S. Lewis once argued, as long as our planet is “enemy-occupied territory,” where God and the Devil fight for the soul of man. Such a notion is anathema to progressives, whose deity is science, whose current obsession is intersectionality, and, for most of whom, the proposition that Providence governs human affairs is hopelessly irrational and outdated.
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Leftist punk destroys century old reputation of the Anti-Defamation League. To be fair, Abe Foxman started it, but never blew things up like Greenblatt has done.
It is no surprise that many liberal groups — including some that are all-in on what some on the left are treating as an apocalyptic fight for the future of the High Court — are reflexively opposed to anyone Trump may nominate. But the ADL’s presence in the ranks of those who are supplying the organizational muscle for the resistance to Trump might come as a surprise to those who haven’t been paying much attention to the group in recent years. Though it spent its first century of existence being careful to avoid getting labeled as a partisan outfit, in the three years since the ADL’s longtime national director Abe Foxman retired, Greenblatt has steadily pushed the group farther to the left and, in so doing, more or less destroyed its reputation as being above politics. After the ADL has repeatedly involved itself in partisan controversies, it is impossible to pretend that Greenblatt’s vision of the group isn’t fundamentally that of a Democratic-party auxiliary that is increasingly overshadowing and marginalizing its still-vital role as the nation’s guardian against anti-Semitism.
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#9 – And THANK the good LORD for that!!
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Morning, everyone. Up early for me — forecast tells me to go ‘head on and mow my front yard this morning. I will, as soon as I have a small breakfast. I found myself looking forward to the exercise last night. I didn’t get much done outside yesterday, because I got too late of a start.
I think I heard the dread phrase “rolling blackouts” on the radio news as I was getting up.
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There’s a bunch of parody Antifa accounts on Twitter. They’re hilarious.
And we all know Chris Hayes is a genius.
On Twitter:
Boston Bikers
Antifa Boston
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Dov Fischer at American Spectator:
It really is quite simple. Everyone is smart except Donald J. Trump. That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected President. Only Trump does not know what he is doing. Only Trump does not know how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper knows how to stand up to Putin. The whole crowd at MSNBC does. All the journalists do.
They could not stand up to Matt Lauer at NBC. They could not stand up to Charlie Rose at CBS. They could not stand up to Mark Halperin at NBC. Nor up to Leon Wieseltier at the New Republic, nor Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone, nor Michael Oreskes at NPR, at the New York Times, or at the Associated Press. But — oh, wow! — can they ever stand up to Putin! Only Trump is incapable of negotiating with the Russian tyrant.
Remember the four years when Anderson Cooper was President of the United States? And before that — when the entire Washington Post editorial staff jointly were elected to be President? Remember? Neither do I.
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I too am a Russian bot.
#17
Almost makes me want to open a Twatter account so I can join in on the fun.
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#15 – Still falling for those fear tactics from the weather man huh?Better get out there and wrap your pets and bring in your pipes while you are at it.
#16 – Now that something that is really scary. That might be just the line the dems need to move the needle.
#19 – I’ve got me one of those Titter accounts but I’ve never used it.
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I read some weather news while wolfing down my breakies. Looks like D-FW area that may have some rolling blackouts. Those are some serious 3-digit temps. 107 forecast for today.
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Those are some serious 3-digit temps. 107 forecast for today.
Perfect running/jogging weather.
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The BillHilly meddled in the DNC primary.
The Newspeak Slimed Media always meddles in our elections.
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Just in case there is someone reading here who hasn’t already seen this.
“John Brennan started out his adulthood by voting for the communist party presidential candidate. He is now ending his career by showing himself to be the most biased, bigoted, over the top, hyperbolic, and unhinged Director of the CIA we have ever had.”
– Senator Rand Paul
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Yesterday marked the 49th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. She was carelessly and criminally left to die in a submerged car in the middle of the night by Ted Kennedy.
If there is a hell, Ted Kennedy is there at the bottom of a lake, trapped in a car and slowly suffocating – for all eternity.
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#25 Texpat, yes but she was one of the little people and was no way as important as his political career, completely expendable. I will say that even though the stupid Massachusetts voters kept in the Senate for life, his deplorable actions that night, doomed his political ambitions to become President forever.
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Mow & edge finished, 2.5 hr. I think I’ll rest & cool down, then zip out with the blower and tidy up.
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Sadly, Mary Jo Kopechne may have been alive, submerged in total darkness, for two hours! SPITS ~
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Cartoon posted over yonder, by the 1st and 3rd wife of a Hamster.
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CemenNN meddled in the 2016 election by providing debate questions to the BillHilly in advance.
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Hey diddle diddle
put your kitty in the middle
and don’t meddle in the muttle
of a piddle in a puddle
and the Russian hoax flying
up in the airor something like that.
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CN enema
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Sarge wears them, but only around the house.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/19/heeled-crocs-leap-inglorious-shoe-barbarism/
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#18 Texpat
It is a neat but not gaudy bare knuckles essay driving to the heart of the matter of President Trump’s capable management of the job he was elected to do. Despite the howls of anguish from the losers of every stripe, including RINOs and most of the media types, he keeps on keeping on, and America wins.
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And Ronaldus Magnus is smiling.
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Those Red Velvet Ants are not really ants.
https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/stinging-insects/velvet-ants-cow-killers/
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#36 Shannon: Pestworld; is that where lawyers and democrats come from?
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I’m sitting here shaking my head.
There’s this woman who hangs out in my house. A Texan. In seventy eight years she has never seen a red velvet ant. -
I think she’s BS-ing me.
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Well, I’m a born Texican of 72 years and I’ve never seen a red velvet ant. Must be some city slicker type ant that doesn’t get out into the country. BTW, I heard there was a big cat fight on and off the set of The View today, but after consideration, I decided who cares and did not go over to see it. It’s just too hot to get excited about anything right now.
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I’ve seen ’em.
And I avoid ’em.
Them’s scary lookin’ critters.
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I remember red ants in Lubbock, and have seen what I considered red ants here but never heard of a red velvet ant. You sure you’re from around here?
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Google thinks everything is a fire ant.
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38 Shannon
In seventy eight years she has never seen a red velvet ant.
She is pulling your leg, man. You can’t spend your life in Texas and claim to have never seen a red velvet ant, unless, of course, you went to Rice. Those people talk all kinds of crazy and folks have been letting them get away with it for the last 127 years. When will it stop ?
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I survived Prime Day with my credit card still in tact, but had I seen some of these items, particularly with the reviews, I’m not sure that I could have stood pat.
https://www.guide.com/galleries/27-easy-ways-to-blow-20-on-amazon/photo/5956a3141dac3c4494ded0a2/?ftag=ACQ-07-10aaj7d
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There was a gal up at Fort Sill named Red Velvet. I think she had a nephew.
That’s right.
She was his Aunt Red Velvet.
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Red velvet ant must be a Bellville or maybe Memorial thing.
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I thought is was Auntie.
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The insect fauna of West Texas, Austin, and the Gulf Coast are diverse, but I’ve never seen or even heard of this red velvet aunt, red velvet wasp, or cow killer. Ptoooey.
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GJT says:
JULY 19, 2018 AT 8:21 PM
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I’ll have to step and support Shannon on the Red Velvet ant. Used to see them in the country around Ganado all the time in 60’s & 70’s. Interesting that it’s the female that has the bright colors and as expected – the stinger.
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Look out. Someone is paying attention to what is going on at UT-Austin, and is not happy.
https://misruleoflaw.com/2018/07/19/an-open-letter-to-the-university-of-texas-board-of-regents/ -
Description: These insects are wasps, not ants. Females are wingless and covered with dense hair, superficially resembling ants. The red velvet-ant is the largest velvet-ant species, reaching about 3/4 inch in length. They are black overall with patches of dense orange-red hair on the thorax and abdomen. Males are similar but have wings and can not sting. Several other species of velvet ants are common in Texas, including the gray velvet ant or thistle down mutillid, Dasymutilla beutenmulleri, and D. fulvohirta. Most are solitary parasites of immature wasps (Vespidae and Sphecidae), solitary bees and some other insects such as beetles and flies. Winged males can be confused with other Hymenoptera. Adults of the tiphiid wasp, Myzinum sp. (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae) are black and yellow, 3/4 inch long . They can occur in large numbers, sometimes on flowers of landscape plants. Larvae are parasites of white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae).
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Cow-Killers were all over Florida. Grandpappy called ’em pissants.
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52 EG
I’ve been a fan of Mark Pulliam for years.
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Well, good night, Couch Pals. Me, I overdid today to a greater extent than would be normal for me, 5 years into retirement. And it wasn’t the yard work. There are several areas I am volunteering to help the HOA, and it is suddenly getting super busy. I’ll probably survive the busy spell.
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