Re: Reason
@clueless AC
He’s a Virginian resident, and CPAC is in Maryland. They’ll have to send the gun to a licensed dealer in Virginia and have them do the transfer to Pai.
It's considered an "antique," not subject to Federal firearms laws.
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@clueless AC
He’s a Virginian resident, and CPAC is in Maryland. They’ll have to send the gun to a licensed dealer in Virginia and have them do the transfer to Pai.
It's considered an "antique," not subject to Federal firearms laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Qtgd9T7kg
The one with the gecko in the pocket.
Amazing, they complain that city-built Internet access prevents them from competing. But when has cable-service competition ever served users? There rarely is any competition. The cable companies have no competition, so rates keep going up and up and "customer service" is pathetic.
How about "observe the speed limit"? As another poster observed, nobody is above the law.Not that most of you will visit the U.S. anymore, but just in case. In the western states you'll have a smooth, straight road, speed limit around 60 mph. As you approach a town in the middle of nowhere, the speed limit will drop, fast, to 50, 40, 30 mph. You can see the decreasing-limit signs, they're so close together. Pay attention! A lot of towns have signs that light up with your actual speed. If they're connected to the PD, they may be waiting for you as you enter "downtown." Don't blink, because even at 15 mph you'll be through the town in a few seconds.
Also, don't count on forgiveness if you're doing less than 5 or 10 mph over the limit. I was pulled over on an Interstate in Montana for 67 in a 65 (verbal warning) and tracked by a California cop who turned around after passing me as I was 2 mph over the limit on a downhill stretch of a major road, daylight etc. It was steep enough that the cruise control didn't keep the car at the speed limit. After tailing me and running my reg, he must have decided to let me go (I was doing the limit the entire 10 minutes he was on my tail).
OTOH, there's a stretch of Interstate in Idaho where the limit is 80 mph, and places in Montana where there's no limit. Get off one of those roads and onto a secondary road and it's harder to tamp it down. If you do a lot of traveling, even if you're generally speed-conscious, it's easy to slip up, just long enough to get a fine. Fortunately, I am as yet unscathed.
The memo doesn't undermine the appearance of collusion. It merely attacks the people who brought the information to light. The smoke, fog and bullshit are all coming from the Republicans, who are clearly scared to death that the P[ervert]OTUS is going to drag them all down with him. The smart move (yeah, that's asking a lot of Republicans these days) would be to put some distance between themselves and Trump et al. Nunes is a slobbering lap dog, and the rest of the pack are following him right over the cliff.
First, that line deserves a Pulitzer. Second, in a time when a man who failed at nearly every endeavor, except playing a clown on television, occupies the highest office in the land, why express outrage at false information on websites where every clown can be a star? Welcome to the Society of the Spectacle.
That is our reality. At the moment, those of us still able to see through the smoke can only wring our hands and grind our teeth. The people who read that crap on FB don't care about truth, ethics or morality. They only want to be entertained. Maybe the discussion should be about how we can rehabilitate digital-crack addicts. Cutting off their supply looks to be impossible. There's too much money to be made, and there's that pesky First Amendment (which I support, sometimes grudgingly).
.... somewhere deep in the Google campus an intelligent AI has escaped control of its human masters....Just a fancy way of saying "a cat." Not that cats ever were under control of humans. Any cat I ever had responded only to a machine. Specifically, the sound of the can opener.
@bombastic bob
The Mueller "investigation" is merely part of the swamp trying to undermine an elected president.Sure. And Trump's inauguration audience was the biggest in history. The best thing about this "president" is that he spends 1/3 of his time on the golf course.
What do you think ironically means exactly?
I'll tell you what I meant. An administration is supposed to run things. In fact, Trump and the Nunes clique certainly are running something. They're administering a conspiracy scam to deflect attention from the Mueller investigation, and trying to destroy public confidence in the FBI.
The Trump Administration (I use the term ironically) and the Republican Party are obviously scared shitless by the Mueller investigation. The Nunes memo is clearly a desperate, last-ditch effort to save an already doomed ship. They know their world is about to end and they don't have the integrity to admit they're total losers. Their ultimate collapse will be wonderful to watch.
If Facebook draws too many clicks away from local news sources, those sources will fail. There go Facebook's "free" sources. Facebook is trying to be the one-stop-shop for the Internet-illiterati. Zuck should stick to the plan: produce a site where sad people can post banal information about their meaningless lives. And saturate it with ads for weight-loss and self-help programs.
What's Ecuador gonna do -- cut off the shrimp?
I've lived most of my life in isolated, US rural areas. When it comes to government actions, we're damned grateful if we're at least offered vaseline before they bend us over the barrel.Be grateful you're not getting all the government you're paying for.
(Tip of the hat to Will Rogers.)
Hurricane Harvey: "To the people of Houston and across Texas and Louisiana, we are here with you today. We are with you there, and we will be with you every day to restore, recover and rebuild."
Hurricane Irma: “We love the people of Florida and they went through something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. We love these people, and we’re going to be back and we’re going to help them."
Hurricane Maria: "We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!"
Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them. He plays with them, alone, sitting on the floor near the console hour after hour, chanting "onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies" in a precise, well-modulated voice, not so loud as to be annoying, not so soft as to allow me to forget. I point out to Shotwell that two can derive more enjoyment from playing jacks than one, but he is not interested. I have asked repeatedly to be allowed to play by myself, but he simply shakes his head. "Why?" I ask. "They're mine," he says. And when he has finished, when he has sated himself, back they go into the attaché case.It is unfair but there is nothing I can do about it. I am aching to get my hands on them.
Shotwell and I watch the console. Shotwell and I live under the ground and watch the console. If certain events take place upon the console, we are to insert our keys in the appropriate locks and turn our keys. Shotwell has a key and I have a key. If we turn our keys simultaneously the bird flies, certain switches are activated and the bird flies. But the bird never flies. In one hundred thirty-three days the bird has not flown. Meanwhile Shotwell and I watch each other. We each wear a .45 and if Shotwell behaves strangely I am supposed to shoot him. If I behave strangely Shotwell is supposed to shoot me. We watch the console and think about shooting each other and think about the bird. Shotwell's behavior with the jacks is strange. Is it strange? I do not know. Perhaps he is merely a selfish bastard, perhaps his character is flawed, perhaps his childhood was twisted. I do not know.
Never seen one since adding uBlockOrigin. What really honked me off was when the copyright holder forced YouTube to remove Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Why is it the crap endures while the spiritually uplifting stuff gets pulled? I'm quite sure Google revenue has nothing to do with it.
@Big John
You seriously need to find better sources.
President Trump didn’t want to win the presidential election because he thought, if he lost, his family would have bigger opportunities ahead, according to an excerpt from a new book detailing his first year in office.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-didnt-want-to-win-the-election-because-he-thought-losing-could-offer-untold-opportunities-book/article/2644849“This is bigger than I ever dreamed of,” Trump told former head of Fox News Roger Ailes a week before the election, according to author Michael Wolff. “I don’t think about losing, because it isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.”
Fortunately here in America...When the country elects a president who expresses every...we don't have the kinds of leaders who would enact laws and abuse the entire national surveillance framework just to identify individuals who post on social media exercising their American rights to criticize, parody, and protest those leaders.
Had fun stringing one along for months. Convinced him I had a fleet of airplanes and was in the "commodities import trade." So I could help him fly his loot out of wherever. Finally got him to send all his banking info to a FAX number. At the U.S. Justice Department. Making a scammer believe his so-called mark was for real: Priceless.
ok you young whippersnappers probably don't know who that guy is - he was one of the best foreign policy gurus this nation has EVER seenI remember Kissinger well. Among other achievements he was the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's movie with that title. From your Wikipedia link:
"Kissinger played a key role in bombing Cambodia to disrupt PAVN and Viet Cong units launching raids into South Vietnam from within Cambodia's borders and resupplying their forces by using the Ho Chi Minh trail and other routes, as well as the 1970 Cambodian Incursion and subsequent widespread bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia. The bombing campaign contributed to the chaos of the Cambodian Civil War, which saw the forces of leader Lon Nol unable to retain foreign support to combat the growing Khmer Rouge insurgency that would overthrow him in 1975."
"Kissinger himself said there were about 50,000 civilian casualties in the bombing."
"Along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1973."
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linebacker_II for more on this "guru."