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Closeness

Close, but not close enough LOL The Polish Cover

Exposing Weiners

Smart blog comment of the day There's a back story, of course Exposing Weiners

“ I nebber knew what that ‘goatsee’ thing was. Now I do. I hates you for three minutes Doug. *Okay, I’m over it now*

About Bauer's departure

Don't go jumping no sharks on us Mr. Corsi Corsi says move 'marks beginning' of end of Obama eligibility cover-up

"Bauer sent Perkins and Coie attorneys to Honolulu to pick up from the Hawaii Department of Health what he believed would be two certified copies of Obama's 1961 long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate," Corsi said. "When the White House released to the public the birth certificate in the form of a PDF computer file obviously created on Adobe software and a Xerox copy, Bauer realized the Hawaii DOH (D'oh) had participated in the fraud," Corsi charged. Corsi said he had been tipped off early in February that a long-form birth document for Obama had been forged and that the document was to be released. "The information came from a mole within the Hawaii DOH who had been examining the vault logbook for months," Corsi explained. "Until just prior to February 24, no Obama long-form hospital-generated birth record could be found in the Hawaii DOH." When the announcement about Bauer's departure was made today, the AP said he was returning to private practice and to represent Obama as his personal attorney and as general counsel to Obama's re-election campaign. ['Birth certificate' prompts departure of White House counsel] Corsi is tying Bauer's sudden resignation as White House Counsel to his worry about being entangled in a fraud (Vince Foster, anyone?). All that may be true, but I don't see anything unusual about a top White House aide leaving to participate in a reelection campaign.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

A GOOGLE AND AN OGLE

The two pics are unrelated, so don't hurt your brain trying

Going, Going, GOOGLE

Previously How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business

And that’s why I used to think that Google was unstoppable. Until I realized one very important thing: despite the fact that Google goes to great lengths to keep its index fresh by indexing pages that often change every hour, or even every few minutes, and despite its efforts at realtime search (including searching the Twitter firehose), its dominant dataset is dead, while the Web is—each day more so than the last—vibrantly and energetically alive. Indeed, Google’s revered and unparalleled dataset is increasingly dating itself as an ossified relic akin to the Dead Sea Scrolls—outshined by the freshness of the living, breathing organism that is the social Web. [Tech Crunch] Oh Lord.  I can see it coming.  Since Google's my landlord here on Blogspot, the first thing they'll do when their dance of death begins is make me start paying rent. And what choice will I have but pay it?  But that won't be enough to keep Google from going the way of AOL, so what happens next?  That's right.  Huffington Post will buy You Tube and Blogger, and I'll have to pay Arianna! Or go to Facebook.  Oh Geez.  I'm going to bed instead.

Ink jet Printer. Digital camera. One device.

Attention Entrepreneurs

“   Compact, easy and fun the PrintBrush™ 4X6 is the first of its kind. A pocket-sized printer with a built-in camera. Featuring PrintDreams de RMPT™ Full technology, it will print in color directly onto virtually any surface Hold it in your hand and sweep back and forth -just like a brush!. ” What I've been looking for.  I'll grab a few of these, and when the SHTF  disappear into the Amazon rain forest where I'll soon be a god to one of those tribes nobody's ever heard of.  Bwahahahahaaaaaa! Yes, I'll lounge around all day while lovely bare bosomed maidens feed me monkey brains and fat grubs. Bwahahahahaaaaa.!  Eat me Obama.

Chinese Torture

In You Face Amelica! Chinese Toy Company Makes Replica of Stealth Chopper Used in Bin Laden Raid

“   The U.S. operatives used explosives to destroy what was left of the damaged aircraft, which experts believe is a modified Black Hawk, to prevent it from falling into foreign hands. But the explosion was not enough to cover up all of its wreckage, leaving behind a tail that generated speculation over the helicopter’s actual design. “Were it not for the fact that one of them crash-landed and had to be destroyed, the world would probably not have realized that the U.S. possesses such stealthy helicopter variants," the product description read. ” Oh goody. Marc Miller

Speaking Bluntly

Blunt Cards Sampler

Tim

What about Princess Leia?

Dealing with perverts, government or otherwise

How to ZAP a Camera: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors

The downside of recent camera technology has been the creation of  the nuisance/quasi-illegal class of stalker.  Some operate with  shoe cams to surreptitiously scope your plumbing. Other perverts operate under the government umbrella.  This latter class use traffic cams to transfer wealth from you to them. To my knowledge neither operate with the victim's permission (has there been a municipality that first held a voter referendum?). Enough talk. It seems that when hit with a laser beam, cameras (any camera) will have its vision temporarily impaired.  Well, temporary unless you have one of those jim-dandy lasers that will bring down a ICBM - like the one we almost had until Obama stopped development.  Whoops.  Sidetracked.  This guy has done some serious investigation into this subject, and especially on the cheap.  Below, a few selections.  If you're interested in learning more you can go to How to ZAP a Camera: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors This cheap laser pointer emitted an oval-shaped beam (as is often the case) that was about 2mm by 4mm in diameter at very short distances, and expanded to over 5cm by 10cm at 100 meters (due to cheap collimating optics). In medium and bright light, it was difficult to see with an unaided eye. The obvious solution was to couple the laser to an optical scope and pre-calibrate them. Telescopes and binoculars generally do not have cross-hair reticules built in, but rifle scopes do. Rifle scopes are available at prices upwards of $2,000, but like handguns, most of the market appears targeted at lower-income customers, and cheap rifle scopes can be found for under $10. All rifle scopes have built-in reticules with some form of cross-hair or dot at the center, which are internally adjustable with set screws. The only problem is that, unlike telescopes, rifle scopes are made to be viewed with the eye several centimeters from the rear optics, since they are mounted in front of the operator's face. (This distance is specified as "eye relief," and is typically 2 - 5 inches but is never zero.) A simple prototype system was built with a $30 mail order 5mw red laser (635 nm wavelength, which appears much brighter than 670 or 690 nm red) and a $10 rifle scope with a 4X magnification (Tasco Rimfire, made for small game hunting). The laser and scope were secured together and the cross-hair adjusted to center on the laser beam at 100 meters. Through the rifle scope, the glint reflected from the lens was indeed apparent, particularly when the camera lens was zoomed in. It was easy to intermittently hit the lens but difficult to maintain aim by hand. A second prototype expanded in several directions. First, it is tripod-based, with a precision head allowing independent adjustment of its 3 axes (Bogen/Manfrotto "Junior Geared Head," complete system costs around $200). Then, a larger rifle scope was used for a bigger, brighter image (Tasco World Class 3-9x zoom, $70). Finally, the cheap laser pointer was replaced with a laser gun sight, which has the same Class IIIa power rating but much better optics, resulting in a more circular and collimated beam (Beamshot 1001 for $110). These gun sights also have adjustment screws to align the beam, durable metal cases, and many options of mounting hardware. So, for under $400, a rather serious camera zapper can be assembled. If either the camera, or target, is moving, then some form of aiming and dynamic tracking is required. One solution is to do it ourselves. A third prototype was built to be small and hand-held for near and medium range moving cameras The result was made with a Beamshot 1001 laser gun sight and a small monocular made for golf range finding (Tasco Golf Scope, $20), basically a small telescope with a grid-like reticule inside. Unlike a rifle scope, its eye relief distance is zero, which makes it comfortable to use hand-held. This new system could fit in a pocket and was very easy to use. It turns out that precise calibration was not necessary, since the beam is easily visible in the scope at near and medium range distances. If one wanted to scare away a news cameraperson, this system would be ideal. I know what some of you are saying.  "But Rodge, how do us girls protect ourselves from this guy?  Simple.   Insert this and go regimental. You're welcome.

Mmmmmm- Pig fat

Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden? Seems so    LOL— Military cartridges use pig fat lubricants.

I do see potential for a replay of history here. When the  Brits, in 1857 India, issued gunpowder cartridges that were believed to be greased with cow or pig fat, which insulted both Hindus and Muslims, rioting ensued among the Sepoy (Indian  regiments).  Let's hope that Muslims don't do the same here, as unusual as that would be.  Ahem. But, if they do, a workable solution may be found in that history. “ Vengeance was swift and harsh: suspected mutineers were tied to cannons and executed. Poof!

CHEATS

Ohio State’s Jim Tressel gets axed, but rotting wood remains in college athletics

“   How does MD basketball relate to Jim Tressel and Ohio State? Feinstein thinks the Bob Wade debacle is equilivant to what is going on at OSU and that they deserve a similar punishment. He also says 99% of people care about their teams winning, not about GPA and grades. [WaPost story via Testudotimes] ”

I don't know enough about Trestle's culpability here to comment. Instead I'm driven by the arbitrary way the NCAA seems to enforce rules.  Programs like Kentucky basketball, and lately, Connecticut's are immune.  It's like Democrats are running the NCAA too

He's Not So Smart

Today's Best Article Ever Written Stop It Already -- He's Not So Smart

I was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and later had the honor of clerking for the Hon. Danny Julian Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, one of the nation's most brilliant jurists, who later rose to become Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit.  To be selected as Chief Articles Editor, I had to research and write the Law Review Comment of a lifetime.  In time, it was published and deemed good enough that I was named law review chief articles editor.  In the years that followed, that Law Review Comment has been cited by federal courts in at least seven published judicial opinions, and in several other unpublished opinions.  It has been cited and quoted often in other people's legal scholarship. And that is "how it works."  To be a law review editor-in-chief, a Chief Articles Editor, a Chief Comments Editor of a law review, it is a sine qua non that you publish something fabulous, a real scholarly piece of work.  Many dozens of America's finest law students do exactly that every year.  Those articles later become part of a vast searchable electronic library of legal scholarship.   The thing is, I cannot find Barack Obama's great piece of work, the scholarship one would presume he researched, drafted, crafted, and honed, that earned him the presidency of the Harvard Law Review.  The name "Obama" is the kind of search term that should do the job.  But I cannot find any scholarship published by him that reveals the exceptional brilliance that paved the way to his achievement.  So there is no published scholarship that refutes the increasing sense so many of us share that we Americans elected a President who maybe is not so smart as the media's campaign hype suggested.  Perhaps even a rube.  Excerpted from "Stop It Already -- He's Not So Smart,"  By Dov Fischer toadold

Face Book People From High School

Types of Facebook Friends From High School

I'm not a Facebook person, but I do recognize all of them.  I'm none of these of course.

Killer Stats

Killer Stats

i rule

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Okay, that's funny.  I love to tweak Apple cultists like everyone does.  Bur fair is fair. What's not funny *sigh* is how wretched Windows 7 is, and continues to become with every update.  For example, when I transfer pictures from my Canon A560 to the computer, I expect to be able to put them in whatever the hell directory I want.  It was a battle, because Mr. 7 wants to "organize" pictures in a some hierarchical system of its own design, and to hell with what I want. After a fashion I found a way to do it, but now I discover that the 7 pricks have lassoed and herded them back into the corral.  Obviously, then,  someone at Microsoft found out I was doing things the wrong way; cracked my knuckles with a ruler and corrected things.  I call that breaking and entering.  The reason for all this is obvious to, mostly, old timers.  The gene that makes programmers programmers is the same one that makes people control freaks.  It is their natural tendency to thrill at having dominion over people not as bright as they.  These ambitions are controlled in the carefully supervised programming environment.  Guess  what?  Yes, the inmates have escaped oversight, evidently, and are run amok.  If all this makes you think "my God, he's describing government," you're right.  The ambition to control other people attracts the same personality.  When you see a seventh grader campaigning like hell to be elected class president, after nominating himself, you are seeing a future programmer, a manipulator of people.  Here's an example of that culture, one that exists in Microsoft today.  Beginning with Windows 7, the time waster called Microsoft Hearts underwent an extraordinary metamorphosis.  The key move was retaining statistics from prior games.  The player is now allowed to win, say,  25% of the time with minimum cheating in the form of reneging.   At about the 40% win level however, it's total war.  By that I mean all pretense of playing by the rules is gone.  Every hand is programmed to  make it impossible for you to win.  Stacked deck and reneges galore.  If you still manage to get to the point where a win is possible, even probable, the game uses tactics tantamount to shooting you and declaring victory.  You will simply be trampled. I swear to Jesus, I just now had a moment of perfect clarity.  Microsoft is  running the Democrat party.

Another Clinton Piece of Crap

Appointed By:     President William Clinton Natch

Joining the pantheon of bad judges appointed by Carter, Clinton, Obama. and Schickelgruber

Turds

Number 1 in the Number 2 Business

Victoria Ro

The Drunk Kitchen

The Drunk Kithcen

Language (Ef word) Okay, yeah yeah yeah; drunk isn't funny.  Oh yes it is—  if it isn't your drunk.  And if you're a cute little bird. It's a series. Srsly. Ro

Clap off clothing

If you're not happy and you know it clap your hands

“   He's got knickers with flashing fairy lights, others that glow in the dark, a bra-and-knickers set shaped like manicured women's hands enveloping the wearer's crotch and breasts. In a slightly higher price range, he's got remote-controlled bras and knickers, designed to spring open and fall to the floor with a clap of the hands or a press of a button. [BBC]

The Clap-Off Bra from Randy Sarafan on Vimeo. Focus - The clap-off bra and garage door opener, or vice versa thor

A Novel

Special pre-publishing peek at my new novel, "I SAID I WANTED 'CHOVIE'S"

"What are you doing— what is that thing," the captive gasped? "This? This is a 12 volt battery.  These are jumper cables." He pointed at the man's crotch, "and those are your wee balls." The captive's naked body was restrained in a metal chair, by what looked like seat belts.  He could see the shadowy figures of  maybe  a half dozen people. Two appeared to be women.  The single  bulb hanging overhead, the only light in the room, a garage perhaps, was the stuff of B movies. A blinking red light from a tripod mounted video camera meant this was being taped. "Do you know who the fuck I am? "  demanded the captive?  "Do you have any idea of the forces being mobilized to find me?  And  you?" "No asshole.  We randomly snatch people from the Congressional Country Club golf course, after neutralizing a small army of armed guards, with no idea who we're snatching. Are you— I don't know? Are you Trini Lopez?  Brad Pitt? Lady Gaga? " The leader touched the cable leads, held just inches from the captive's eyes.   Snap!  They crackled, producing bright sparks. An electric ozone smell filled the space. . "Who are you people? You'll be lucky to just spend the rest of your lives in prison for this," threatened the captive.  His  bravado wasn't feigned, reeking instead of  arrogant defiance. The leader's wan smile disappeared entirely. "Oh my.  I guess we're all to cock then.  But then,  you're all airy-fairy yourself right now, wouldn't you agree? So you—   you Mr. important person, are here to  tell me everything I want to know." The threat was punctuated by another SNAP! Another brief crackling light show.  "To insure that we get everything we want, we'll start with these clamped to your  balls. I hear it's painful as a root canal.  Then, after we discover you've been lying to us, we'll move to — are you  familiar with the term water boarding?  A nasty business. The Pope would turn Baptist after just a few hours of it.  So trust me, you will cooperate. "What in hell are you talking about!?"  What do I have to tell you? Security codes?   What the fuck  am I supposed to say?"  The captive's fear was now palpable, and smelling of ammonia.  When the leader briefly touched the electrodes to  his nose, he yelped. Urine had  involuntarily streamed, leaving a puddle on the concrete floor.  The leader suppressed a grin at the thought  "free electrolyte."    "What do we want?  Everything. You will tell us everything. Starting with how you came to earth."

Chapter II, pp 42

Weiner Fall-Out

women prefer pictures from gay guys

“   If you think sending that special someone a photograph of your erect penis is a good idea, think again. WaPo's Monica Hesse asked a few average, ordinary American women -- such as a lawyer in Washington, a porn photographer in San Francisco, and a "women's sexual function" psychologist in Las Vegas -- what sorts of pictures they'd most like to get from a man. Their answers: a made bed with rose petals on it, folded laundry, a clean refrigerator, a hand holding a pan that was just used to cook dinner, and a shelf of books organized alphabetically and by genre. So according to the Washington Post, women prefer pictures from gay guys. ”

via Daily Caller

No power

Okay. Everyone turn their A/C off so my power stays on longer than 2 minu

GAH!

BIDEN AWARD FOR CHEESIEST PIECE OF CRAP PROMOTION OF ALL TIME

LIMITED PRE-RELEASE 2011 Mission Accomplished Commemorative Coin GENUINE COLORIZED US MINT DOLLAR

I'm reclining in my Lounge-O-Matic this morning when a commercial managed to air before I could flip away.  This commercial.  . Listen to that crap!  "It's the patriotic duty of every American to keep these memories alive." Here's the real disturbing part. The syndicators  who put this together are absolutely certain they'll make a crapload of money from it.  Because they've done it before. I posted a Gen. Patton quote in the last post.  It's more than damned obvious that despite his plea, we've been breeding a passel of defectives around here.  Sheesh. It's why democrats always think they'll win.

The Enemy Within

Quotes

“   Millions of dollars of negative ads are being run to try and scare seniors and trying to confuse seniors. You know, the irony of this Bill, is with all this Mediscare that the Democrats are running, it’s Obamacare itself that ends Medicare as we know it. Obamacare takes half a trillion dollars from Medicare — not to make it more solvent but to spend on this other government program, Obamacare. And then it creates this 15 panel board of unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats starting next year to price control and ration Medicare for current seniors.  [Weekly Standard] ” That's Paul Ryan responding to the Democrat's decision to block budget cutting and blameRepublicans for trying to kill Medicare. From Hot Air:  "Senate Democrats “leaders” have made a political decision—DO NOTHING and attack Paul Ryan’s budget. Harry Reid told the Los Angeles Times last week. “It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage" Here's another quote on a similar subject. “   "Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. George S. Patton

Throw-away money

What in the hail is this?

IS IT: Harry Reid laundering the money he got from Jack Abramoff? — money congress gave to a performance artist? —  money Michelle Obama likes to display each night before bedtime? —  what Barry paid for a birth certificate Walking around money for SEIU voter turnout effort. Mo Sup drying the money that fell out of my pocket in the wash?

Cindersarah and the evil step-sisters

Revisiting stuff that was right then, and still is

“   There are numerous reasons why so many liberal women hate and fear Sarah Palin. However, with the exception of her pro-life stance and perhaps her Christianity, it is not really her "principle-centered policies" that cause the foam-at-the-mouth hissyfits that afflict Palinophobes. They hate her on a much more personal level. - Alana Marie Burke ”

Sometimes people are spot-on about something, but it's not confirmable until later. I recalled a post I made (on December 06, 2009, as it turns out) and went looking for it.  It rhetorically asked,  "Who's afraid of Sarah Palin."  I knew it was an insightful bulls-eye then, and still do, so it's worth revisiting. “ Palin's folksy demeanor, faulty diction and lack of elitist education, combined with pervasive appeal, are what drive her haters nuts. Ultra-liberal feminists detest that a moose-hunting everymom was able to rise to the top of the heap when so many elitist feminists rest on their lily-white laurels and pat themselves on the back for their "enlightened" political views while accomplishing very little. Unplugged The average Jane admires Palin for her ability to forge a path from obscurity to relative power while sticking to her beliefs (and guns), but more than half of Americans view her unfavorably. Yet, despite Palin's low approval numbers, liberals still fear her. Perhaps it is because Palin's view that "This is America and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity" could mobilize enough support from politically disenchanted women to harness a viable voting bloc. It is interesting to note that more men than women believe Palin is qualified to be president - perhaps because they are not personally threatened by her and find the combination of pit bull and femininity intriguing. ” Other observations made by Ms. Burke include:: New York Times columnist David Brooks called Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party." If this is accurate, then why are Democrats bent on discrediting her? Wouldn't they do well to let her keep her hopes up and let that cancer fester? Despite their intentions to tear Palin down, her hate club is doing her a great favor with their incessant chatter, which inflames her base and keeps her in the news. If the chatter continues, before they know it, Palin might be on that 2012 ticket. Sarah of course went on to challenge the Republican Party's 2010 hand picked RINOs with her own, mostly nobodies who were actual conservatives. Most of whom won office.  The Left's abject horror over the specter of Sarah Palin with power continues unabated. Giddy-up.

Prove you're not an idiot

Ka-Ching!

22-page criminal complaint filed with the FBI

22-page criminal complaint filed with the FBI international expert on scanners and document-imaging software

“ An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a complaint with the FBI, "What the Obama administration released is a PDF image that they are trying to pass off as a Certificate of Live Birth Long Form printed on green security paper by the Hawaiian Health Department," Doug Vogt writes, "but this form is a created forgery." [News release] ”

I checked,  and none of the networks, nor major newspapers-of-record,  have bothered to cover this, so it must not have merit.  A similar complaint filed by Robert Quinn with the Florida General Counsel exempts Obama from wrong doing—   because he "specifically requested 2 certified copies of his original birth certificate, not forgeries." “   In conclusion I want to make it un-questionably clear. This forgery complaint is not made against President Obama and is strictly limited to those individuals, along with Director Fuddy, that participated in the fabrication of this blatant forgery. I say this because President Obama has publicly proclaimed they are the producers of this document and hand delivered to the White House by his lawyer, Judith Corley. His letter specifically requested 2 certified copies of his original birth certificate, not forgeries. [WHO AT THE FBI WILL INVESTIGATE THE MULTIPLE CLAIMS OF FORGERY?] ” Yes, inconsistencies were almost immediately brought to light, but just as  immediately refuted by another document expert (Jean-Claude Tremblay),  who appeared to be waiting in the wings. So, who do we believe?  Comedy Central News, and the New York Times?  Or other so called experts, birthers, and climate change deniers?  It's all so confusing.

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Writer in the Sky Stop Obama

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