Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Stuff

The Humanity                              


                                                            


Res Ipsa Loquitur

For the past, oh, maybe a month, my computer would just up and reboot about every 3-4 days.  Lately it's bee every 3-4 hours, and today was a nightmare.  Yes. I did have a svhost-demon problem, which explains why the Windows update wouldn't install.  I have no idea about the other.  The last time it shut down it took about 2 hours for Microsoft and HP to get it to boot (after a System  Retore).  If  it does it again, I'll have to think there's a hardware failure.  Wears you out man.  If I go missing this time look out the window.  There'll be smoke.

1201 - Time                     : 6/20/2012 6:23:18 AM
1202 - Source                   : Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient
1203 - Description              : Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2709715).


1202 - Source                   : BugCheck
1203 - Description              : The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800030b082f, 0x0000000000000000, 0x000000007efa0000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 061912-27908-01.
 
(Repeat 20 times)


Social Media Roofies- for starters

                                                                          

"Does this taste like Rohypnol to you?







Res Ipsa Loquitur

The media appear to be working their way up to a full-on hand-wringing over the news that the kind of people who use "Does this taste like Rohypnol to you?" as a pickup line have discovered social media "location apps". Wow. Who could have seen that coming?

The internet itself has already made dodging stalkers or creepy exes a colossal pain in the butt, at least for those of us who remember the good old days of 'move and get an unlisted phone number and you're done,' but the idea of voluntarily tagging yourself like a migrating harp seal? Unbelievable.

When I first heard of these apps that would basically broadcast your age, sex, relationship status, favorite color, GPS location, and how long you'd been standing there in the bar parking lot fumbling in your purse for your car keys, I couldn't believe ...
[Tam- findavictim.com continued]

"How do I know thee? Let me count the ways..."

There's Google Mail; speed cams; traffic light cams; street surveillance cams; automobile "black boxes;" Face Book; People Search and Public Information Search Engines; Google Street; Google Earth; surveillance drones;  blah blah blah.

Maybe someone can find the quote for me, I've tried and failed, but the gist is "they'll take your freedom and you'll pay them to do it."  Because that's what's happened.  Remember, pick any technology you want, and the government is using it.  And with this lot, that's a very.very bad thing.

By the by. when I was single I took roofies at the disco.  Way overrated.  Didn't get me anywhere but a bed on the sidewalk. 


Three Things

Perfect Gizmos I Almost Thought Of              

      Three Things For You
Res Ipsa Loquitur
You're Welcome

West & America Leery of Mitt



Has the "gaming" begun?
Dejected by Mitt's silence on Obama's "Dream Act"


































Like many of you, I'm very sensitive to any sign of being "gamed" by Mitt, and the GOP.  This is not a good sign. The answer is easy, Mitt.

Crime Families in the US




  
Crime Families

Res Ipsa Loquitur
Islam, where you "sleep wit militias"

As a teenager Ali Bahkti served in Iran's Revolutionary Guard .  While on a suicide assignment to blow up an Israeli disco, Ali converted to Christianity.  Ahem.  Anyway, he now lives in St. Louis,  and is active in church life "spreading the gospel.".  Of course we all know the penalty for leaving the crime family known as Islam, don't we?  That's right.  Both  Bahkti and his pastor Mike Salazar have been notified, via post from Tehran, that they have been marked for death.  Fatwa'd. 

Even though the two men now live under the constant fear of death, they say they will not stop preaching Christianity.

“I’m doing it for the kingdom of God,” Bakhti said.

“Even if you die doing it,” his pastor added.

Salazar has passed the letter on to the F.B.I. However, the agency wouldn’t confirm to KTVI whether they are investigating the incident.
[Full]

Meanwhile, in Rio Grande Valley, Texas ..... Talal Nimer shot his estranged wife, his daughter and her boyfriend.  Talal admitted to police " that he didn't like that his daughter was dating someone who's not Muslim."  This practice of "honor killing" is of course sanctioned by Sharia law, but police say it is not classified as attempted "honor killing"

Faleh Almaleki's murder of  his daughter Noor in Arizona, is.



Monday, June 18, 2012

London, 2009


What I See




What did you buy the Queen Barry?

Was yours about the same as mine?  If so, we may have the same psych -  be related.

War Widow

Sigh


World War II Widow


  Hey Boss:

Trust me on this one!  This deserves a separate post. 

                WARNNG! 

Very high pollen count and a 2 boxes of tissue video.


  Geo



Earn Carbon Credits

GREEN CRAP

Carbon credits from dairy manure
Here's how to play at home!


Res Ipsa Loquitur

Or, you can crap on your shag pile. It's the effort that counts, not the result.



There's a law against smaking the President in the melon ...

US Constitution 101: Article 2, Section 3, Clause 4
By Doug

What's with Pootie Poo?

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a
good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what
 the hell." TRKOF&S

LIARS LIE

Res Ipsa Loquitur
2004

Robert Conquest once asked the Russo-Hungarian historian Tibor Szamuely why Stalin had ordered his old friend Marshal Yegorev killed. Szamuely replied: “Why not?” It was a better explanation than most Sovietologists could muster.
Michael Weiss asks, and answers Why the West misreads Putin on Syria, and the answer seems to be Why not?” Not since FDR was so besotted by the muderous Joseph Stalin (calling him "Uncle Joe!") has  US President so misread evil as did "W" with Putin (Pootie -Poo)!

Weiss 's analysis (a good read) summation -

.The truth is this. Putin’s only criticism of Assad is that Assad has not already destroyed this annoying little revolution and convinced the world that he is doing so as part of of the global war on terror. ... When Russia sounds more conciliatory to the Western position, it is to buy more time for Damascus. If Putin has one lament, it is only that Bassel al-Assad, Bashar’s smarter older brother, died in a car crash in 1994. Thus was a perfectly good client state entrusted to a combination of Fredo Corleone and Forrest Gump. If Putin ever did accede to a “transition” of power, you can be sure the man to take Bashar’s place would be more like Bassel, and like Vladimir.



POP POSTS



Me Me Me la la la la la .....


Res Ipsa Loquitur

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My Wedding Day Remembrance




Remembering my own wedding day


Father's Day 2012




Father's Day

Yesterday was maybe the best Father's Day ever since my own died in 1998.  The plan was to have crabs, but when we tried to get some- there were none to be had! Anywhere. This is a first, in my experience. 

With the idea  that I wasn't going to have to cook squashed, I set about doing chicken wings, Italian sausage/peppers and onions, and pizza.  The real surprise was that for the first time since Christmas we were all together.  We had expected that only my daughter's family would be able to make it, but at the last minute Greep and Joe said they were coming.  Then, everyone showed up. 

It was a perfect day, weather wise, and I most especially liked the card (roll-over) my granddaughter Lilly filled out (her words, mom's handwriting- BTW,it's  brown hair and brown eyes).  I'll remember this day.  Oh,  this is what MoSup gave me.  For all the hard work I did becoming a father.  Calculated at about 2 mintes, 38 seconds.



Bill Maher is a Stupid Mothrfriken Racist Asshat


Bill Maher

Res Ipsa Loquitur

In objecting to accusations of racism against Gwyneth Paltrow for a a June 1 tweet with the heading “Ni**as in paris for real,” Maher directed his audience to Matt Drudge as a foil for, in his mind, actual racism.

This elicited from me an actual audible guffaw yesterday. Shall we in the future be told by Liberal asshats —
  • Joy Behar has six friends who deem Rush Limbaugh racist?
  • Louis Farrakhan has six friends who deem all whites racist?
  • Barack Obama ... blah-blah-blah?


FWIW, Gwyneth Paltrow may be is a liberal  bore, but I find nothing racist in her supposed Tweet. Nor do you, I'll wager.  Being obsessed by racism, as liberals are however,  is monumentally racist. F'kn peasants.


WWMD?

                provoking Civil Unrest since 2008


HELTER SKELTER

Res Ipsa Loquitur


BULLET POINT
(The laffer part is that staff writer Pamela Constable's (or editor) ingrained Liberalism obligated her to end with "?"  when  it so obviously demanded a "!".

BULLET POINT

BULLET POINT
Obama's White House history is one of ignoring advice from anyone, including chiefs of staff Rahm Emmanuel and Bill Daly, to temper his plans to impose European socialism on us.The anti-Christ, according to legend, roughly, will rule benignly, and with great apparent wisdom for 3½  years before revealing himself as Satan. So he's not the anti Christ. But let me axe you this—  WWMD? Especially when he thinks his goose is cooked?






Sunday, June 17, 2012

... the American Military Coup of 2012

Police State Culture


The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012


                  CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR.

Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a "Strategy Essay Competition."
The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." Authored by Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. the paper
is a well documented, "darkly imagined excursion into the future." The ostensibly fictional work is written from the perspective of an imprisoned senior military officer about to be executed for opposing the military takeover of America, a coup accomplished through "legal" means. The essay makes the point that the coup was "the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992," including "the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses," particularly law enforcement.



I skimmed the first few pages and usually get bored and move on. After 4 pages and read with a bit more intent and found this worth passing on.


With due credit to

Tom Smith

Pop was right



Cherry 1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe















Res Ipsa Loquitur

I know this one has been around before but it is worth a rerun.

When was the last time you saw a 6 volt battery? You’ll LOVE this one. What got me were the seats… Remember?

The oil filter is the blue can with yellow top. You could stick a roll of toilet paper in there. The air filter is the oil bath type, the bottom portion is filled with oil and when you cleaned it you replaced the oil and clean the sump and mesh wire filter.

1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe, 437 original miles, only three owners. Check out the dealer installed “oil filter”, the rusty carb, and you can even see the spark plugs if they need to be changed.
[more 1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe] - via "Spin Giard"

Res Ipsa Loquitur
Which reminded me ...

There was excitement in our house when dad came home with the family's first NEW car, a 1952 Chevy.  The engine looked identical (in my mind's eye) to that 1950.  Our  model was black, and so stripped down that it lacked an ash tray, and a radio.  Ergo, on trips mom had a beanbag ashtray sitting on the dash, and she bought a battery powered radio that was next to useless in the car. 

About 4 years later dad did allow me to customize it— to this extent.  I "bull-nosed" (removed the hood ornament) and "decked" (removed the Chevy badge from the  trunk lid) .  Finally, I applied a  red pinstripe decal  over the holes.  My friends agreed that these improvement were neat, but to complete the job I'd need Oldsmobile Spinner: hubcaps, and Merc skirts, but no way I could come by those on my own (without lifting them).  Oh, I also installed a suicide knob on the steering wheel, but the old man went bonkers ("why do you think  it's called a suicide knob?!?), and made me remove it. I think I was around 11 at the time.  Later, when I bought my own first car ('50 Ford), I put a suicide knob on it, and almost killed myself the first day.  Took it off.  He was right. About everything.


Saturday, June 16, 2012

Yes, you can meet with Barry. Here's how


*swoon & snort"
"What you have with Barack Obama is a lack of character"
Early Obama enabler, Steve Rogers


Res Ipsa Loquitur


There are two chapters in The Amateur that deal with how  Obama treats supporters, even big time supporters, after he's through with them.  Guess what?  They ain't around for 2012, and Obama is panicking. (Just now, while I was prepping this post, I ran across this on Drudge - "... switches from 2008 Obama  bundler to Romney backer" ). 

And here's Steve Rogers, a "Day One" Obama supporter and money man.  His sentiments are those of damned near everybody who thought they had a "friend" in Obama, from Oper to Caroline Kennedy.(LOL).  (page 33)
Res Ipsa Loquitur



.... would be impeached.



If We Took the Constitution Seriously, Obama Would Be Impeached ....

                                       Metaphor























 
                                                                                                XXXX   2012


If the citizens of this Republic still took the Constitution seriously, Obama would be impeached for his decision to unilaterally grant amnesty to certain illegal aliens.

Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the power of Congress, states that "Congress shall have the Power To... establish an [sic] uniform Rule of Naturalization." Congress has passed numerous laws pertaining to immigration and naturalization, including laws requiring the deportation of illegals.

The role of the President, according to Article II, Sec. 3, is to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Obama's refusal to execute Congress's immigration laws (or, for that matter, Congress's Defense of Marriage Act) is an impeachable offense. Article II, Sec. 4 states that the President "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for... Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The deliberate failure to enforce valid immigration law and allow hordes of foreigners to live and work in the U.S. is, arguably, "treason," and doing so in an election year to appease Hispanic voters could certainly be considered "bribery."

In theory, Obama could exercise his power in Article II, Sec 2. to "grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States" and offer a blanket pardon for all violators of immigration law. He's not doing that, because he'd certainly lose in November if he did. (However we should be concerned that if he does lose in November, he'll do it anyway on his last day in office).*

The upshot of Obama's policy not only to allow hundreds of thousands of illegals to live and work in the U.S. during a time of 8 to 10% unemployment, but even worse, since the vast number of illegals we're talking about are Hispanics eligible for affirmative-action preferences, to actually get preferential treatment over native-born Americans.


[American Thinker cont]

* Suppose he did issue a blanket pardon.  All that would accomplish is to keep violators of immigration law from prosecution for those past violations.  It would not cover the new violations that occur if they continued to violate the law — by staying here illegally.   Seems to me, anyway.

As to the article's premise (If We Took the Constitution Seriously, Obama Would Be Impeached .... ), that we do not take it seriously is manifestly (50 Impeachable Crimes and Counting) obvious.



Joe Williams, Berk


            —   Joe, you stupid berk.   




 
I didn't know you were black. Reading your stuff  suggested you're a Liberal racist, and a pretty stupid one. Now that I know you're a black man, all that's changed  is that you're now a  black racist.  Shame on you for squandering the American opportunity.





Friday, June 15, 2012

Secret Obama Plans on Whiteboard


The Obamissariat


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Rodger: This is totally off the subject above.

A few weeks ago you ran a lists of "firsts" for Komrade President REMF Obama, like the first president to have a downgrade in the government's credit rating" etc. Could you pleas run that again? It will be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

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By the by, according to Blogger these are the top search words used to find this blog
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Knitler

      Hitler's Mustache                          

              
Res Ipsa Loquitur


The Amateur

      Hitler's Mustache                          

               The Professionals
I bought The Amateur and will say that it's one of the best reads I've had in a while.  That clippage  is from the prologue, where Bill tells Hillary he commissioned a poll on how she'd fare against Obama in 2012. I think these four paragraphs say so much about their Filthiness and ilk  that I'm compelled to log them in. 

By the way it does appear that you can read the entire book on Amazon.  Free. Shhhhh. For Barn Army only.


Slobbering all over





Strike three eight





Now at bat

"Never in my memory were so many journalists so intent on effecting change as they were during the campaign of 2008. Sure, mainstream journalists always root for the Democrat. But this time it was different. This time journalists were not satisfied merely being partisan witnesses to history. This time they wanted to be real players and help determine the outcome. This time they were on a mission, a noble, historic mission, as far as they were concerned. In fact, I could not remember a time when so many supposedly objective reporters had acted so blatantly as full-fledged advocates for one side-and without even a hint of embarrassment."

From Bernard Goldberg's  A Slobbering Love Affair

Two incidents yesterday made me recall that clip from A Slobbering Love AffairFirst,   this Jonathan Alter Tweet criticizing Obama for delivering what even Liberals are calling the worst speech ever given.


 

    Just cheerleading BO doesn't help him. He needs a sharper, more
cogent message with some memorable lines. I ain't walking my
criticism back

 
This is beyond lacking objectivity. It signals that this journalist has passed into another plane.  One where blatant sycophancy is the given standard, and objectivity requires explication. Listen to him.  It never crosses his mind that he has fouled —   do journalists have a Hippocratic oath equivalent?  To observe some code of professionalism? To at least do no harm?  Goldberg's observation in spades.

The second is HBO's apology for "putting George W. Bush's head on stake in 'Game of Thrones'"  This is more of the same.  Time Warner (HBO) are apologizing for slipping up.  Forgetting that some of their (paying) viewers actually voted for Bush, twice, and think he was by and large a decent man.  HBO's (indeed, Time Warner's) lock-step liberal  workplace culture means that thought never entered their brain holes.  I suspect that a memo, reminding them about cable viewers deciding how to cut expenses, ahem,  may have played some role in this mea culpa.

I don't know what's in the future, but I do sense something extraordinary in the air.  I think Obama's entire house of cards, and that certainly includes the news and culture media, is near collapse.  Could be the Democrat's 1974 in reverse.  Only worse. Much worse. Or, for others - USA UAS USA!






Thursday, June 14, 2012

A Boy Thing

 
Res Ipsa Loquitur


A kid who knows what team he's on

Click for Areolae
... and a girl who works for that same team, evidently  (roll over)

The Way We Live Now

   At The Cinema                           


The Way We Live Now

I just watched the fifth and final episode of The Way We Live Now.  I will recommend this Victorian period piece to the gentleman with these words:

Harry Flashman gets his comeuppance, but then, maybe not so much.

And for the lady -  Affairs of the heart, intrigue, & other girl stuff .


The English Language In 24 Accents

 
Res Ipsa Loquitur

The English Language In 24 Accents


NSFW F-words. But impressive skill

Spielberg's red dress - phooey


Steven Spielberg Behind Obama's Failed Bain Capital Attack

Michael Barone is correct, Obama really needs to stop taking advice from wealthy, limousine liberals.

If you were looking for advice on how tell a story that would impact millions upon millions of people, would you go to a director whose last four films were "War Horse," "The Adventures of Tintin," Indiana Jones 4," and "Munich?"

Nope.

But Team Obama did, and what they got in return was a continuation of the ongoing Spielberg flop-streak:


    At DreamWorks Studios, Steven Spielberg spent three hours explaining how to capture an audience’s attention and offered a number of ideas that will be rolled out before Election Day. An early example of Spielberg’s influence is RomneyEconomics.com, a website designed by the Obama team to tell the story—a horror story, by their reckoning—of Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital. Afterward, Spielberg insisted that Messina sit down with the DreamWorks marketing team. Hollywood movie studios are expert, as presidential campaigns also must be, at spending huge sums over a few weeks to reach and motivate millions of Americans.

What I find especially funny is that the film business, including, obviously, the failing venture that is DreamWorks, has been a quivering tower of risky financing, corporate welfare, and shady investment for decades now.

Spielberg's indignation of over Bain Capital is like water's indignation over wet. [Full]


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Hooker's Pledge




From The Barn Army's John Phillip Sousa - James Hooker


The Pledge from James Hooker on Vimeo.

Adapted, written and performed by James Hooker.


           

Death of a Skillet

TECHNO THRILLS                      

Death of a skillet








You crack me up













This skillet may have been one my granny brought over from England in 1914, or so.  It was definitely the skillet my mom would have used to make my dad's last breakfast before he shipped off for France in Jan 1945.  It is my absolute favorite,  better than any of the designer pans I've collected over the years.  Properly season it cleans up like Teflon, heats evenly and holds the heat.  It takes a manly wrist to flip flap jacks, but you can. It took me, then, just 30 minutes to order this

I didn't think it was possible to abuse an iron skillet like this, but ... . I was making pancakes on the  induction cooktop (discussed here), and heard a pop!  Didn't notice anything,except every pancake was burned on one particular area.  When I look closely I could see a red hot spot moving across the pan as it continued cracking.  Horry Clap! 

What evidently happened is we got a new stove top, which center burner (22,000 BTU) carried a warning that it could melt porcelain. Blah-blah- blah.

One of the first things I noticed is that oil was collecting under that burner, leaving nasty carbon spots that were the devil to clean.  I took special care not spill oil, but the problem persisted.  Where was that oil coming from!!?  I told MoSup that it had to be oil soaked into the pan over those many years.  The seasoning that me it so easy to use and clean.  I was right.  So, when I put it on the induction cooktop, at a setting of "6" (highest), while I got my stuff together, the last ounce of life was evidently drained from her.


I'm keeping the old one to use as a backstop,  so I can target practice with my S&W .22 from my La-Z-Boy.