"Coming at you" via my phone Blogger App. It is what it is. Sera sera, and the stuff people say when they mean to say they are helpless, but, won't say that they are helpless and will say something more soothing instead.
Comment via the phone sucks. But is better than... MH made a list of these awhile back.
(1) We had company yesterday and someone wanted to use our wifi but I didn't know the password. I telephoned our ISP and got it, and a bunch of other information, 100% by talking to a robot.
In an age where robots are replacing customer service reps, it's just a matter of time before even the very best prostitutes are going to have to drop their rates.
(2) [A]nd the stuff people say when they mean to say they are helpless, but, won't say that they are helpless and will say something more soothing instead.
We've had rain here, too. Lots of it. (You're welcome, Allen S.)
Drove thru a white knuckle down pour the other day. Solid dark clouds rolled in through Eldorado canyon. Silly me - I drove right into it. Thought for sure I was a gonner. Last night the lightening cracked and the whole house went dark. Our streams and rivers are all bloated. It is really green though.
What is everyone doing today?
I'm off on my bike for an early ride out to the Rez to watch the Sprint Ironman.
Let's review this week's accomplishments by the Obama administration.
The CIA station chief in Afghanistan was 'accidentally' outed.
The President told our enemies in Afghanistan exactly when US forces will be withdrawn, making them sitting ducks until then.
The President, acting without notifying Congress 30 days in advance as required by a bill he signed into law, released five hardcore terrorists from Gitmo in exchange for one soldier being held by the Taliban, thereby putting a price on every American soldier's head.
Quite the week, wasn't it? Whose side is he actually on?
The CIA station chief in Afghanistan was 'accidentally' outed.
Come now, no reason for the scare quotes. This Administration is epically incompetent, so Occam's Razor leaves incompetence as the most likely source of the problem.
Press Secretary unexpectedly resigns.
I don't think this is connected to the outing of the station chief. (And let's be honest, everyone in Afghanistan probably already knew who the station chief was.) Seriously, when has this Administration ever fired anyone due to incompetence? They didn't even fire Shinseki for incompetence, but rather for cover.
Look at what happened with Benghazi. Not one head rolled (other than the four Americans killed, and they were completely inconsequential to Obama and his Administration) despite epic incompetence before, during and after the fuck-up.
No, as I mentioned elsewhere, after seeing that hug at the end, I firmly believe that Carney left because of the atmosphere of sexual harassment fostered by his boss.
Do you honestly believe this Administration is capable of carrying out a conspiracy? That involves at least a bare minimum of competence, which this group of fools does not have.
At this point I don't even think there was a conspiracy at the IRS. I just think the folks at the IRS dreamed up the scheme on their own thinking they'd get richly rewarded later. (And that may yet happen.)
Doing ANYTHING in a concerted manner, other than campaigning for office, is beyond this group of turds in suits. It's just not what they do.
The competence needed to pull off a conspiracy is not even required any longer. With the enthusiastic cooperation of the so-called opposition party the country is being flooded with mestizos and that's with or without official amnesty. Which in turn gives the Left a death grip on government at the federal level. Checkmate. If you're Schmendrik you cackle with glee. If you're a decent human being you mourn.
"Do you honestly believe this Administration is capable of carrying out a conspiracy?"
Yes. It would have worked like this:
The CIA, in particular the station chief in Afghanistan, strongly opposed the prisoner release.
The station chief was removed by leaking his name "accidentally."
The blame was placed on Carney's office and he was removed to assuage the CIA and provide cover to the man behind the leak. His initials are BHO. Carney was already compromised and was losing the support of the press corps as his lies became too obvious.
Why not just replace the station chief? That would have even further alienated the CIA so they used the leak to eliminate the opposition and send a message. It's a little like leaking divorce records.
Rabel, do you think anyone in this administration cares enough about what anyone thinks to be that Byzantine? The only skills they've demonstrated, and the only thing they've shown they cared about, is getting elected. I could buy the level of complexity you're pushing from a Clinton or Bush, but these guys? That's outside of their comfort zone.
Gross incompetence and petulance are much more IN CHARACTER.
Ice, my "theory" is only semi-humorous. That Carney stepped down just days after the CIA leak, by his office if not by him explicitly, could have been for several reasons. That it was done as part of a manipulation by the White House is a reasonable speculation.
Likewise, the timing of the station chief's outing and the prisoner release is suspiciously coincidental.
One thing I am fairly confident about is that their would have been strong resistance from the CIA towards releasing these five Taliban leaders.
It may feel good to think that the Obama and his people are too dumb to tie their shoes, but it's always dangerous to underestimate your adversaries, as I'm sure you know.
That Sudanese Christian woman who was just released from prison? Count on her being either dragged back to prison or hunted down and killed in the street.
Whatever pressure the US asserted to help free her is now meaningless.
Rabel, from where I ait there's no difference between Obama and any of his Republican opponents. All of them are out to destroy the middle class and turn this into a country of padrones and peons. It's just a matter of which team gets to rape the country the most on the way down.
And in truth I think of Obama and his team as very competent specialists at getting elected. But they've shown neither t he ability or the inclination to govern competently save to make certain the financiers and government employees do well. That's why the Limbaugh Theorem holds true: ObamaCo is always campaigning because they're going back to their core competency.
And it hardly feels good to know that the entirety of the US governing class wants to see me and people like me get ground into the dirt, or to know that they've got 100,000,000 or so voters backing them up.
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"Coming at you" via my phone Blogger App. It is what it is. Sera sera, and the stuff people say when they mean to say they are helpless, but, won't say that they are helpless and will say something more soothing instead.
Comment via the phone sucks. But is better than... MH made a list of these awhile back.
(1) We had company yesterday and someone wanted to use our wifi but I didn't know the password. I telephoned our ISP and got it, and a bunch of other information, 100% by talking to a robot.
In an age where robots are replacing customer service reps, it's just a matter of time before even the very best prostitutes are going to have to drop their rates.
(2) [A]nd the stuff people say when they mean to say they are helpless, but, won't say that they are helpless and will say something more soothing instead.
That's called "Dutch comfort."
There. That's my morning's full dose of pedantry.
Now I can go back to drinking.
I'm sorry Lem. That's a bummer. :(
Big rains last night. About 2 am waken by very loud lightning. Lots of it.
I'M LUCKY TO BE ALIVE!
The Mosquitos at my cabin are so large that three of them just beat up a hummingbird.
They were probably union thugs.
We've had rain here, too. Lots of it. (You're welcome, Allen S.)
Drove thru a white knuckle down pour the other day. Solid dark clouds rolled in through Eldorado canyon. Silly me - I drove right into it. Thought for sure I was a gonner. Last night the lightening cracked and the whole house went dark. Our streams and rivers are all bloated. It is really green though.
What is everyone doing today?
I'm off on my bike for an early ride out to the Rez to watch the Sprint Ironman.
sprint the size - not the phone company
My parish up here has switched to citronella novena candles. It didn't help.
I kept my two dialup accounts even after I got DSL.
One of them gets used from 6am-9am on an old laptop to record Imus off KOIL, whose streaming audio fits in 50kbs,
It backs up the WABC DSL stream against DSL outages.
Incidentally see if your internet is only missing the DNS server. Try using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 instead.
Or connect direct to some site whose IP you know.
CenturyLink fixes your landline phone within two business days, if they're not busy.
Let's review this week's accomplishments by the Obama administration.
The CIA station chief in Afghanistan was 'accidentally' outed.
The President told our enemies in Afghanistan exactly when US forces will be withdrawn, making them sitting ducks until then.
The President, acting without notifying Congress 30 days in advance as required by a bill he signed into law, released five hardcore terrorists from Gitmo in exchange for one soldier being held by the Taliban, thereby putting a price on every American soldier's head.
Quite the week, wasn't it? Whose side is he actually on?
"I telephoned our ISP and got it"
They knew your wifi password and gave it out over the phone?
Change DNS server (XP)
start/connect-to/show all connections/
(darken the one you will be using)
/properties/
(darken TCP/IP)
/properties/
o use the following dns server
Following up on MH's comment:
In one week's time
1. Office of Press Secretary leaks Afghan CIA chief's name.
2. Afghan CIA chief is removed.
3. Press Secretary unexpectedly resigns.
4. Five Afghan Taliban leaders are illegally released.
5. Lem's internet goes out.
I'm working up a conspiracy theory.
The CIA station chief in Afghanistan was 'accidentally' outed.
Come now, no reason for the scare quotes. This Administration is epically incompetent, so Occam's Razor leaves incompetence as the most likely source of the problem.
Press Secretary unexpectedly resigns.
I don't think this is connected to the outing of the station chief. (And let's be honest, everyone in Afghanistan probably already knew who the station chief was.) Seriously, when has this Administration ever fired anyone due to incompetence? They didn't even fire Shinseki for incompetence, but rather for cover.
Look at what happened with Benghazi. Not one head rolled (other than the four Americans killed, and they were completely inconsequential to Obama and his Administration) despite epic incompetence before, during and after the fuck-up.
No, as I mentioned elsewhere, after seeing that hug at the end, I firmly believe that Carney left because of the atmosphere of sexual harassment fostered by his boss.
I'm working up a conspiracy theory.
Do you honestly believe this Administration is capable of carrying out a conspiracy? That involves at least a bare minimum of competence, which this group of fools does not have.
At this point I don't even think there was a conspiracy at the IRS. I just think the folks at the IRS dreamed up the scheme on their own thinking they'd get richly rewarded later. (And that may yet happen.)
Doing ANYTHING in a concerted manner, other than campaigning for office, is beyond this group of turds in suits. It's just not what they do.
The competence needed to pull off a conspiracy is not even required any longer. With the enthusiastic cooperation of the so-called opposition party the country is being flooded with mestizos and that's with or without official amnesty. Which in turn gives the Left a death grip on government at the federal level. Checkmate. If you're Schmendrik you cackle with glee. If you're a decent human being you mourn.
"Do you honestly believe this Administration is capable of carrying out a conspiracy?"
Yes. It would have worked like this:
The CIA, in particular the station chief in Afghanistan, strongly opposed the prisoner release.
The station chief was removed by leaking his name "accidentally."
The blame was placed on Carney's office and he was removed to assuage the CIA and provide cover to the man behind the leak. His initials are BHO. Carney was already compromised and was losing the support of the press corps as his lies became too obvious.
Why not just replace the station chief? That would have even further alienated the CIA so they used the leak to eliminate the opposition and send a message. It's a little like leaking divorce records.
Rabel, do you think anyone in this administration cares enough about what anyone thinks to be that Byzantine? The only skills they've demonstrated, and the only thing they've shown they cared about, is getting elected. I could buy the level of complexity you're pushing from a Clinton or Bush, but these guys? That's outside of their comfort zone.
Gross incompetence and petulance are much more IN CHARACTER.
Ice, my "theory" is only semi-humorous. That Carney stepped down just days after the CIA leak, by his office if not by him explicitly, could have been for several reasons. That it was done as part of a manipulation by the White House is a reasonable speculation.
Likewise, the timing of the station chief's outing and the prisoner release is suspiciously coincidental.
One thing I am fairly confident about is that their would have been strong resistance from the CIA towards releasing these five Taliban leaders.
It may feel good to think that the Obama and his people are too dumb to tie their shoes, but it's always dangerous to underestimate your adversaries, as I'm sure you know.
That Sudanese Christian woman who was just released from prison? Count on her being either dragged back to prison or hunted down and killed in the street.
Whatever pressure the US asserted to help free her is now meaningless.
MH,
Not released.
Dang.
Pray tell how this story hit every major news outlet and then turn out to be false?
We are truly screwed...and first liars do not stand a chance.
The authorities took down Lem's wifi less than 48 hours after he announced that his sister was moving to a low-tax state.
It's a a warning shot, Lem.
Rabel, from where I ait there's no difference between Obama and any of his Republican opponents. All of them are out to destroy the middle class and turn this into a country of padrones and peons. It's just a matter of which team gets to rape the country the most on the way down.
And in truth I think of Obama and his team as very competent specialists at getting elected. But they've shown neither t he ability or the inclination to govern competently save to make certain the financiers and government employees do well. That's why the Limbaugh Theorem holds true: ObamaCo is always campaigning because they're going back to their core competency.
And it hardly feels good to know that the entirety of the US governing class wants to see me and people like me get ground into the dirt, or to know that they've got 100,000,000 or so voters backing them up.
Internet back on...
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