http://www.wsj.com/articles/fragile-cease-fire-resumes-in-aleppo-1482141192
Good let’s hope it holds!
Fragile Cease-Fire Resumes in Aleppo
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GUNS: “Miss Sloane” is a loser; good
Monday, December 19, 2016https://www.nraila.org/articles/20161216/miss-sloane-america-votes-no-once-again
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Miss Sloane: America Votes “NO” Once Again
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016
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“You can’t win them all,” as the old saying goes, but when it comes to the Second Amendment, gun control advocates can’t even come close. Such is clearly the case with Miss Sloane, the latest of Hollywood’s repeated attempts to push a gun control narrative on the American people. Of course, they didn’t see this coming, any more than they saw a Donald Trump victory coming. But that’s because they refuse to acknowledge the basic simple truth about the American people when it comes to our firearms freedom. Well, we’ll say it again, the American people aren’t buying your anti-gun narrative.
Miss Sloane features Jessica Chastain as a Washington lobbyist who takes on “the establishment” to push for passage of gun control in the U.S. Congress. As reported by Stephen Gutowski at freebeacon.com, the “political thriller” opened last weekend to much buzz and fanfare among gun control groups, but tanked completely at the box office, making one industry list of the worst openings of the past 35 years for a movie with a national release.
Incredibly, Gutowski reports that a representative of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence actually said, “… I can tell you that its production alone, with our input, is the success.” In other words, it is of little consequence that nobody wants to see a movie that pushes for gun control, its mere existence is what matters.
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Anyone need more evidence that Hollywood is both “on a different planet” and out of touch with its Customers.
The nation has decided that the NRA is correct — “when seconds count, the police are minutes away”, “we’re all the first responders”, and “Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Gun control is a racist legacy of the KKK in the Deep South. Can’t terrorize minorities when they can shoot back.
Robert A. Heinlein said it best. “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
Varmints of both the two legged and four legged varieties need to be put down quickly and efficiently. Nothing like a nice Colt 45 1911 for that purpose. Only in the movies, do bad guys survive that. Although, in a good hand, any caliber will do. Heck, sometime just “racking” a shotgun will do the trick.
Like I recently told a young lady I know: “No one wants to be down range of a crazy woman with a gun.”
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Connecticut’s Spendthrift Capital Eyes the Wealthy Suburbs
Sunday, December 18, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-spendthrift-capital-eyes-the-wealthy-suburbs-1481930850
Bankruptcy is good. “Haircuts” for everyone!
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Connecticut’s Spendthrift Capital Eyes the Wealthy Suburbs
Sunday, December 18, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-spendthrift-capital-eyes-the-wealthy-suburbs-1481930850
Bankruptcy is good. “Haircuts” for everyone!
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LIBERTARIAN: “Who will build the roads?” — an OBVIOUS answer!
Sunday, December 18, 2016Ep. 802 Way Beyond the Roads: Libertarian Solutions for Other Parts of the Built Environment
13th December 2016 Tom Woods
The hosts of the Anarchitecture podcast join me to discuss the differences between libertarian and conventional statist solutions to everything from roads to city planning and garbage collection.
Guests’ Podcast: Anarchitecture Podcast
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I took away from it an EXCELLENT
“Who will build the roads?”
“Who should build the roads?”
“Next time that person is sitting in traffic, instead of him thinking ‘why don’t they build more public transport, maybe they will think ‘why hasn’t supply met demand on this strip of expensive capital infrastructure that I can use for free?’— DUH as Tom observed “the question answers itself”!
Argh!
Great answer.
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SECURITY: Don’t reuse the same password at ANY site
Saturday, December 17, 2016http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html
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Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked
By VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTHD
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than 1 billion accounts.
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There are too many good password utilities that make this unnecessary.
I have over three hundred sites where I have accounts and no site has the same password.
AND, my passwords are as long as the site allows and with whatever mix of character types they allow.
My financial sites (i.e., the banks and brokerage) have their passwords written down off line.
(Yeah, that a small PIA but I sleep better.)
Ask me if you need information security advice.
Otherwise, you’re just a target waiting for the random hacker or script kiddie.
Argh!
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FUN: Road rage
Friday, December 16, 2016AN OLD ONE, BUT STILL FUNNY imho.
Busted!
A woman pulled up to a red light behind another car. The driver of the car in front of her was talking on his cell phone, and shuffling through some papers on the seat beside him.
The light turned green, but the man didn’t notice. The woman began pounding on her steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The man still didn’t move.
The woman went ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at the man, pounding on her steering wheel and dashboard.
The light turned yellow. The woman blew the car’s horn repeatedly, as she yelled and screamed curses at the man.
The man finally noticed the commotion. He looked up, saw the yellow light, and accelerated through the intersection just as the light turned red.
The woman was beside herself, screaming in frustration as she missed her chance to get through the intersection. As she was still in mid-rant she heard a tap on her window and looked into the face of a very serious looking policeman.
The policeman told her to shut off her engine and step out of the car. The red-faced woman obeyed, speechless at what was happening.
The policeman then arrested the woman and took her to the police station where she was booked and placed in a cell.
After a couple of hours the woman was escorted back to the booking desk where the original officer was waiting with her personal effects.
The policeman handed her the bag containing her things, and said, “I’m really sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn and screaming and cursing. Then I noticed the *Choose Life* license plate holder, the *Follow Me to Sunday School* bumper sticker, and the chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. Naturally I assumed that you had stolen the car. Have a blessed day!”
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Aleppo Evacuations Suspended
Friday, December 16, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/aleppo-evacuations-suspended-syrian-state-tv-reports-1481882660
Surely, the world can save these people. It’s not a natural disaster like an earthquake or flood.
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NOTRECOMMENDED: QuikCheck sub
Friday, December 16, 2016Last night, for dinner, because I’d stopped at Quik Chek #quickchek http://quickchek.com/StoreHome/89 for some Half & Half, I bought a ham sandwich with lettuce and russian dressing. It was almost inedible. In comparison to the sandwich I usually get at Wawa (#wawa Wawa #912), there was no comparison. Wawa allows you to get just the bread toasted. Quick Chek toasts something but I couldn’t figure out what; it was cold. The meat on the Quik Chek sandwich was just plopped on it as a mass; Wawa places individual slices. In fairness, Quik Chek does offer russian dressing; I don’t think Wawa does. I know Quik Chek charged me more than Wawa does, but I don’t have the receipts from each. Sigh! So FWIW, I won’t be buying subs from Quik Chek again. YMMV!
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How Parents Can Help Children Repay Student Loans
Thursday, December 15, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-parents-can-help-their-children-pay-off-student-loans-1481512442
Don’t let them go to college in the first place. I’ve never seen a “poor” plumber.
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