Saturday, April 2, 2016

Megyn Kelly: Why won't anyone fight my battles for me. Oh and I want equal pay for equal work!



Megyn Kelly will be on the weekend morning shows with noted pinko pussy Charlie Rose complaining that Bill O'Reilly didn't do enough to defend her when Trump "attacked her."
Ms. Kelly know for her dignified pose as a serious news anchor can not understand why Donald Trump treats her with the same lack of respect that he treats male news anchors like Chris Wallace.

Ms. Kelly states: "I think it's very clear to him that he cannot control the editorial on my show,  or from me, in a debate or other setting." Of course it must be news to people like Bill O'Reilly or Anderson Cooper or Chris Matthews that Donald Trump can control the editorial content of there shows but delusional entitled news bunnies can never stand within shouting distance of reality. Trump appears on almost every show that would have him. Even on the dismal radio talk shows of goobers in a backwater like Wisconsin. So I don't understand where she gets off on the idea that she is special.

Put me in Coach.....well maybe not.


I used to have Yankee Season tickets. In fact I had them for over 25 years.  Not a full season ticket. I ain't rich and even when they were five bucks a game in the 1960's I couldn't afford that. No I had a plan. I started with a Saturday plan. I had on for about 15 years. Saturday plans were great. It was almost always a day game. You got Old Timer Day. Almost always got plenty of Red Sox and Baltimore games. Plus some of the West Coast teams like the A's. You wanted to go in the daytime because it wasn't all that safe around the Stadium late at night in the 1970's,

Then I switched to a mixed plan. You could mix and match you games if you got 20 games. Plus you got one playoff ticket to every playoff game. That was great because you could pick the teams you wanted to see and not be locked into every weekend. The problem was the playoff seats were always in the nosebleed section. Once I had the very last seat on the corner with nothing to my left but a straight drop down to River Avenue. I was shitting the whole game with a iron grip on the railing.

In 1996 a got a better plan. Every week night. That was tough but I would sell off a bunch of tickets. It was easy because the Yankees were really good and I had great seats and everybody wanted them. The playoff seats were great too as they were the same seats. So I had them through the whole run.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky



"Don't sing about love, Sing about war"

Sing about war

Don't mention the war!

Friday, April 1, 2016

Obama flashes peace sign at nuclear security summit

So says Daily Mail.  He does no such thing. They don't know standard signaling. It could be a V as in victory, it could be peace, yes, but this time it means "two." Two more people are needed for a complete photograph, or two more seconds of this and let's go. Cameron's look of consternation is about something else. You don't need to be expert to know this. It's right there in the video. A commenter at Daily Mail notices too.

I didn't know until now Trudeau has such a pronounced underbite. Is he jutting his jaw out or what?  That's the moment it can be broken with one powerful side hit. He's a goofball too. The photographs show him acting silly, but awkwardly and self-consciously, exactly the way of someone  I've known for decades. He flies to Montreal all the time and he speaks French so finally I asked another friend just recently if he is from there. Answer, No, you idiot, he's from Illinois.

Oops. I stand corrected again. On the video Obama says, "Peace out, then something unintelligible on my laptop, sounds like: more people are supposed to be wait'n on. There went my theory and for him meaning "two." This happens all the time, alway getting it wrong.

It's one of those things where elected official are together and they want to record the blessed moment and the historic event for everyone involved.

And I'm jealous of everyone's camera. They have the best. Everyone has a better camera than me. They don't click anymore, they go brrrrrrrraaaaaaaap. brrrrrrrraaaaaaaap brrrrrrrraaaaaaaap brrrrrrrraaaaaaaap brrrrrrrraaaaaaaap like everyone is shooting 50 frames in streams.

Peace out.

I'm Your Puppet

Reagan outlaws Russia

Canadians calling for more Syrian refugees

Canada will take in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees, adding to the more than 25,000 already received in the last few months, said immigration minister John McCallum.


McCallum told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp he was responding to complaints from Canadian groups who want to sponsor Syrian refugees but did not have their applications processed quickly enough to be among the government’s initial target of 25,000.
“We are doing everything we can to accommodate the very welcomed desire on the part of Canadians to sponsor refugees,” McCallum said in a phone interview with CBC News from Berlin, where he is meeting with the German interior minister.
The Liberal government won election in October 2015 pledging to bring in more Syrian refugees more quickly than the previous Conservative government. Private groups including church, family and community organizations had lined up to sponsor Syrian families.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/canada-10000-syria-refugees-john-mccallum

3 year-old learns to hack SQL database / Arizona SQL voter database hacked

Not really. His daddy, Troy Hunt shows him, and the boy pushes the buttons but really he has no idea what is going on. But you do. This could have been presented as one of those "shot", "chaser" things.

This is important because voter information is stored as SQL databases and they've been hacked in Arizona. Arizona has closed primary. This year their choices are Democrat, Republican or Green. The database was hacked so affiliation was changed to Independent and there is no such on the ballot so those votes are rendered useless.

It's much worse than that in Arizona, the comments to this story quickly devolve to the other problem, the obvious and visual problem of long lines that shut out voters. Comments are loaded with people complaining they've been turned away. In one case, the line is too long, too far away from the voter place to be considered a line.

The hacking relies on a program called Havij, Troy pronounces as "cabbage." He asks his boy. "Would you like to hack a site?" The boy answers, "Noooo." They do anyway. He chooses a site and shows how the program hacks it for emails and passwords.

You see immediately how easily this can be applied to state voter information stored on SQL that is not protected. Troy goes on to explain what Havij program is doing and how data might be protected from it but seldom is.

And the damage done there in Arizona is irreparable. Trust in voter system is destroyed. The commenters if taken for typical generally assume Republican mischief. They want to leave the state and go someplace reliably liberal where things are run fairly. They're not considering any Republican voters shut out. That's not even a fraction of their grievance. It's all Republican malfeasance. Finally they see irrefutable actual voter fraud but by their lights it must be Republican. Why do they assume that? Because that's the way their minds work. It's only by raw hate that can force these pieces to fit, and to keep force fitting. No other perspective allowed. Dem on Dem hacking is not possible. All sensible people are Democrats and all wound up crackpots are Republicans. If perspective were altered even a little then the whole picture would change like a lenticular print, and that's where they live.



The hacking video is a link inside the story about Arizona SQL database being hacked, near the end almost as an aside. I found the hacking video presented above as interesting as the article itself, more interesting than all the pinched partisan perspectives and all the voter's stories of long lines and discouragement, 


The report is about ballots being switched to Independent, how that could happen, who it affected, and what all that means. 

Stopping To Smell The Flowers


I'm off the grid for a few days -- off to Anza Borrego State Park to see the desert wildflower bloom and hopefully to get some stunning photos of my own.

Many, many thanks again to all of those who wished me a happy birthday last Wednesday!

EBL: things are definitely getting interesting

Is Donald Trump hiding those fingers because 
they are unnaturally short?
"With the polls going in Cruz's favor in Wisconsin, the chances of Donald Trump going into the convention with 1237 delegates got a lot narrower. Trump's campaign seems intent on making errors to ensure this turns out to be the case. Yes of course New York and California still favor Trump, but without the 1237, delegates can start bleeding from the Trump Train after it pulls into Cleveland this summer."

http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2016/03/ed-morrissey-asks-is-wisconsin-waterloo.html

Man Made Marbles

Romanian carpenter builds wooden car called Julia that can reach 55mph.

Putin dating Murdoch's ex


How’s this for a new couple alert? The rumor circulating around the corridors of power — from Washington, D.C., to Europe and Asia — is that Vladimir Putin and Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, are dating. See more photos of Wendi here.
Reports of the pair have been floating around for years, ever since their respective divorces in 2014 and 2013.
One insider close to the powerful leader tells Us Weekly the relationship is “serious.”
Murdoch, 85, filed for divorce from Deng, 47, after 14 years of marriage in June 2013 after he reportedly grew suspicious of her relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. (A spokesperson for Blair denied the affair to The Hollywood Reporter in July 2013.) The businesswoman famously made headlines in 2011 when she jumped to Murdoch’s defense and slapped a protestor’s face after he tried to pie her husband during a meeting with parliament. 
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rupert-murdochs-ex-wife-wendi-deng-is-dating-vladimir-putin-w200077

Which actor played the villain a little TOO well?

Reddit best answers...

 Rosamund Pike was an absolute monster in Gone Girl and I can never look at her the same way again...
Kathy Bates in Misery.

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth (Schindler's List)

Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched

Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange