I am surprised that this monument has not been destroyed, but I assume it is just a matter of time until it is torn down. The East is full of history and it is being erased by communists. What Sheridan said about Indians also applies to commies.
I don't, really, but some days I find myself frustrated by "labor saving" devices. Yesterday, our first warm day in a while, was a good day to mill a bowl out of a big chunk of white oak, or so I thought. I had designed the bowl, created a toolpath, and started the CNC running, when about 90% of the way through the roughing stage the z-axis went nuts and milled straight through the bottom of the bowl. Nice. Now I have more firewood and a puzzle to solve - why did the machine break?
Why? Because I used it. That is my corollary -- machines only break if you use them. Of course, if you depend upon machines for income, one can become stressed about that. So I try to focus on repair, and let the chips fall where they may, so to speak.
My debugging skills always get a workout in this kind of situation, and here's what I have done - swapped cables to isolate the suspect controller channel, swapped out the known bad controller board with another of unknown condition, discovered that the second board has a bad y-axis, swapped in yet another spare board, which, surprise surprise, has no working axes.
At this point I contacted the manufacturer -- guy says "Your machine is an antique, our repair guy refuses to work on those old cards, here, buy a new one for $1,600." Well, there you go. I might consider it, depending on how many changes I have to make to my upstream design software. Oy!
So, since I can't run the machine I might as well read a book on my Kindle. But before I download a new book I figure I should tidy up the memory - there are books on there I have read and won't read again, so I can delete those, right? Wrongo, bunkie - them sumbitches is on there permanently, as near as I can tell.
I mash the button that says delete, they are still there. I touch the book icon itself it says "Downloading". NOOOO - stop it - I want it gone, not reloaded!
So I go to the Amazon site, search for "Deleting books from Kindle" -- you'll never guess what they suggest. They want you to buy a book that tells you how to delete a book. Holy schnike! You cannot be serious!
So now I am working with a sales guy over at the CNC company to see what I can work out - like the Scottish regiment -- repair or replace, for those of you who know that joke. "Aye, we've decided to replace!", which is the opposite of the punchline -- turns out I don't have to buy new software, so there you have it.
Now if only I could delete a freakin' book from my Kindle - grrr...
The Kentucky Hospital Association outlined its concerns in a report released Friday called "Code Blue," saying payment cuts to hospitals are expected to reach nearly $7 billion through 2024. "Kentucky hospitals will lose more money under the Affordable Care Act than they gain in revenue from expanded coverage," it said, experiencing a net loss of $1 billion by 2020.
"This report provides the real picture of what our hospitals are facing," KHA President Mike Rust said during a press conference at the Lexington Convention Center, where the group was holding its annual convention.
Wasn't Obamacare officially known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What happened to affordable? These people must be wrong. Obama would not lie to the American people like that.
In Democrat strongholds Republicans prevail. Democrats do not understand what is hitting them. They are surprisingly slow on the uptake and get everything wrong. Everything. Democrat Governors Association Executive Director, Elisabeth Pearson, who looks like you'd expect, released a statement, here and it's quite stupid, attributing Matt Bevin win in Kentucky governor's race to Donald Trump creating conditions of outsider popularity.
Yeah, and...
You want to talk about political things? This is how I talk about political things. Elisabeth, who spells her own name wrongly, looks stupid and says stupid things.
What created Trump? How is Trump even possible? Elisabeth doesn't bother tracking back. She looks back only so far.
What political conditions existed within Republican party could create the possibility of outsider Trump, not a Republican, not a conservative, to take over? Since Elisabeth, Executive Director of Democrat Governors Association can see political conditions being created, what conditions were created that led to Trump? Her analysis begins with Trump, but something came before Trump, and something came before the dissatisfaction that caused Trump.
Dissatisfaction with Republican representation created Trump. And that dissatisfaction is with elected Republicans not getting the message, as Elisabeth cannot get this same message, of Republican representation not being brake to Obama's ambitions. That is, restating, when you trace back over election cycles, Obama created the political conditions that Republican representation failed to brake over cycles eventually allowing Republican Matt Bevin to take Kentucky governorship, actually creating Matt Bevin as opposition, considered an important Democrat loss. Obama forced Republican response that failed. The original Democrat careening failed, the expected Republican brakes failed, this double fail frustration building over cycles ultimately led to Democrat loss. Not simply "Trump." And the same thing with Virginia keeping Republican senate.
The best thing about the whole episode is observing their heads exploding all over, struggling to understand and getting it all wrong. Shall we count the wrongness of the ways? It would be a wearisome Fisking of every single sentence.
1. Believe in middle class values HA!
2. Believe working people have a right to the American dream. HA!
3. Believe healthcare ought not to be just for the privileged... *click*
He had ten or so good seconds wailing from the pit of non comprehension.
You watch. It's for you, not for me. I've turned sufficiently misanthropic already and there's only so much horses shit a guy's willing to take. Pleasure enough to have the video on mute and enjoy the three onstage wound up cringing through agonized faces. Pleasure enough just knowing it exists, evidence of their grave unhappiness and their absolute non comprehension. Their lives are destroyed and my heart fills up with glee that, yes, there really is God and he really does love us. We see them agitated, their mouths moving, but nothing gets heard, just as they do, say whatever you like, they're not listening either, and so far as reading Republican actions, Republican actions of taking over, they get all of that wrong too.
But Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, whom U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning found in contempt of court, said through her lawyers that she will not authorize any of her employees to issue licenses in her absence. The judge placed her in the custody of U.S. marshals and had her taken to Carter County jail.
We knew from the beginning which revolutionary held more power, and we also know that the worst revolutionaries show no mercy to dissenters. There were many options short of imprisonment for Davis (how many leftist legislators are in jail for lawless “sanctuary city” policies that actually cost lives?), but the court was apparently in no mood for moderation. So off she goes to prison. Judge Bunning’s decision is a means of control It is a means of maintaining order. It is the selective application of law to advance a particular radical ideology. But spare me any talk of justice. There is no justice today in Judge Bunning’s court.
