Friday, 06 December 2013
Good Morning! Today’s Special: Snow
Two inches already on the ground at bedtime...
Yes, that’s a 10% chance of 12" or more by the time it’s over... right there in the center!
LATER: Came the dawn: Not much additional accumulation here, but the forecasters warn of a possible 5" more this afternoon.
From the archives:
Two inches already on the ground at bedtime...
Yes, that’s a 10% chance of 12" or more by the time it’s over... right there in the center!
LATER: Came the dawn: Not much additional accumulation here, but the forecasters warn of a possible 5" more this afternoon.
From the archives:
Old Grouch, December 4, 2010: December checks in
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Thursday, 05 December 2013
...and Don’t You Forget It!
The Party of Envy Dept
‘‘[Liberals'] money is the reward for a lifetime of hard work. Your money was gotten by ripping off poor people, so it needs to be redistributed.’’ - ‘‘srlucado,’’ commenting at Instapundit
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Latest: If you want your hospital, you *can’t* keep your hospital.
(Dang, fooled again!)
Of couse the номенклатуÌра- starting with the Senate Majority Leader’s buddies- get exempted from dealing with this shit.
ObamaCare Follies Dept
Walter Russell Mead:The article goes on to list every insurance company that offers plans in the Washington exchange as well as the hospitals that are in-network for those companies. Pivoting off of that list, Steve Roth points out that two of Washington’s biggest insurers—Primera and Lifewise— don’t have any of the state’s four top specialty hospitals in their networks. If you want the best cancer, trauma, ER, or pediatric care, and your plan is with one of the two biggest carriers in your state, you’re out of luck.And here I was told that ObamaCare was supposed to get rid of all the ‘‘junk plans’’...!
(Dang, fooled again!)
Of couse the номенклатуÌра- starting with the Senate Majority Leader’s buddies- get exempted from dealing with this shit.
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Thursday, 28 November 2013
Clipfile - November 28, 2013
‘‘It is getting increasingly... difficult to... consider the works of the progressives while maintaining the belief that the intentions of most people are good. People with good intentions usually don’t have to lie so much.’’
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Friday, 22 November 2013
Just in time for Black Friday...
Ars Technica:
They say they’re going to fix it, but they don’t seem particularly sorry.
Elsewhere:
In Soviet Union, Television Watches You Dept
Ars Technica:
They say they’re going to fix it, but they don’t seem particularly sorry.
Elsewhere:
Original report at DoctorBeet’s Blog
The Register: You THINK you’re watching your LG smart TV...
TechDirt: LG Smart TV Caught Collecting Data On Files Stored On Connected USB Drives
Graham Cluley: LG says it will push out firmware update for spy TVs, but fails to apologise
The Register: You THINK you’re watching your LG smart TV...
TechDirt: LG Smart TV Caught Collecting Data On Files Stored On Connected USB Drives
Graham Cluley: LG says it will push out firmware update for spy TVs, but fails to apologise
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Seven Advance N1 signal generators, a keying unit, three Philips EL3503 tape recorders, and a B&K wobulator
Who’s Next?
In MY day, all we had was Razor Blades and Sticky Tape Dept
Who’s Next?
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Monday, 18 November 2013
Clipfile - November 18, 2013
‘‘Worse than the effects of Obamacare - which may or may not be permanent, but which will certainly be severe - is the effect on the citizenry of watching the nation’s leaders and legislators come before the public and lie, day after day. Not picayune lies, but baldfaced, insulting, comprehensive and utterly immoral lies. It’s as if they haven’t even the dignity to pretend they are addressing a concerned or informed citizenry - they simply reject the idea of truth or honesty, then lie about their own lies. It is a disgusting and dishonorable display of complete mendacity, unleavened even by any thought that these charlatans might be lying in the service of their country. They are small people, who think - or perhaps hope - that the citizens are as small as they are.’’
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‘‘The problem is that you’re not angry enough about this.’’
Stacy McCain deconstructs the Los Angeles Times’ Obamacare coverage:
Stacy McCain deconstructs the Los Angeles Times’ Obamacare coverage:
One of the tricks of media bias is to confuse readers and viewers about who is the subject of the sentence and responsible for action.Go read the whole thing... and then contemplate what else we’re not being told.
A public that is half-educated — or, as is often sadly the case, miseducated — does not have the skills of rhetoric and logic necessary to analyze the ways in which they are deliberately misled by the media, but some of the tricks are so simple anyone can spot them.
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[About Obamacare] Obama lied, and Republicans told the truth, accurately predicting that the implementation of ObamaCare would result in the cancellation of millions of private insurance policies.
You might think that, with truth so clearly on one side and falsehood starkly exposed on the other, no one could possibly be confused.
Ah, but you’re not a liberal newspaper editor determined to prevent the blame from being properly allotted to the Democrats.
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Weekends are always interesting...
Me (loudly): Hey! Anything that I should be doing out here?
Voice from the back room (slightly startled): Um... no.
Me: Don’t see anything... Just checking...
(another pause)
thump-thump buzzzzzzzzzz (fades, lights dip slightly)
thump-thump buzzzzzzzzzz (fades, lights dip slightly)
Me (loudly): Hey! Anything that I should be doing out here?
Voice from the back room (slightly startled): Um... no.
Did you see something happen?
Me: Don’t see anything... Just checking...
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Friday, 15 November 2013
Unconstitutional? So what?
Eugene Kontrovich:
Yeah, so who’s going to do anything about it...?
Welcome to Chicago-style government by decree.
And isn’t it a tragedy that, in our entire rotten government-political establishment, there’s not one honest man?
Eugene Kontrovich:
...Here, Obama is apparently suspending the enforcement of a law for a year – simply to head off actual legislation not to his liking...
[But]... the fix goes far beyond ‘‘non-enforcement’’ because it requires insurers to certain new action to enjoy the delay. This is thus not simply a delay, but a new law.
The ‘‘fix’’ amounts to new legislation – but enacted without Congress. The President has no constitutional authority to rewrite statutes, especially in ways that impose new obligations on people, and that is what the fix seems to entail.
Yeah, so who’s going to do anything about it...?
The Democrats? Too busy running for cover, and besides, Obama’s their guy.
The RINOs? Gotta help bail out their buddies across the aisle.
The conservatives? ‘‘R-a-a-a-a-cist!’’ Also ‘‘wreckers and looters.’’
The press? Not a chance; he’s a Democrat:
The Supreme Court? Justice Roberts? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The Justice Department? Eric Holder? Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Mr. Average Citizen? ‘‘Shut up, there’s no standing for you!’’ (see Supreme Court, above).
The insurance industry? ‘‘Nice business you got there. Wouldn’t want it to be another AIG, would you?’’
The states? ‘‘Hey, nobody here but us chickens!’’
The voters? ‘‘We got our Obamaphones!’’
The RINOs? Gotta help bail out their buddies across the aisle.
The conservatives? ‘‘R-a-a-a-a-cist!’’ Also ‘‘wreckers and looters.’’
The press? Not a chance; he’s a Democrat:
On NPR this morning, they were debating whether this change was incredible or merely really good. The subject of legality never came up.Oh, and George Bush was Really, Really Bad.
The Supreme Court? Justice Roberts? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The Justice Department? Eric Holder? Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Mr. Average Citizen? ‘‘Shut up, there’s no standing for you!’’ (see Supreme Court, above).
The insurance industry? ‘‘Nice business you got there. Wouldn’t want it to be another AIG, would you?’’
The states? ‘‘Hey, nobody here but us chickens!’’
The voters? ‘‘We got our Obamaphones!’’
Welcome to Chicago-style government by decree.
And isn’t it a tragedy that, in our entire rotten government-political establishment, there’s not one honest man?
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