LOCAL AND REGIONAL
* “IOU?“ More like “we owe them.”
It’s too bad the Occutards don’t know how right they are about the Fed.
Remember, Herman Cain was once on the board of directors of this institution in this city.
NATIONAL
* Sometimes, elitism isn’t a bad thing. There are times when it’s a very good thing — If I need brain surgery, I want a neurosurgeon whose IQ is in the top 1% of all people.
* Aww, what’s the matter, Occutards? Didn’t you want to be hoisted on your own petard? Hate corporations so much, but when you didn’t have access to one, you did nothing but bitch and moan and wail.
* Worries me? Yeah. But for the time being, I’ll settle for the “Occam’s Razor” explanation that Soros just wants to make some money, and the American domestic firearms market is one of the few hot industries left in this country. Maybe he thinks he’s being all clever and Machiavellian and poetic justice like, using the money realized from (presumably) conservative Americans to fund all the left-wing rabble rousing shit he loves so much. (Occutards included)
* I wonder if there are many of those “18: Adult” buttons in good shape left over from the 26th Amendment days. They might come in handy again really soon.
* The few, the proud…well, they’re proud, at least.
* Waiting to hear all the whining about pre-emption of Federal law in three, two, one…stone cold silence. Crickets.
* White collar crime in New York City. Hint: The suspects don’t much look like me.
* And on the same day this happens, Gov. Moonbeam makes open carrying of unloaded handguns a crime.
Yes, this prison thing will be a disaster, because many of the supposed “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” offenders being knocked back to county jails or on probation are really violent, serious and/or sexual offenders. Their rap sheet only *seems* to have “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” line items, but in reality, they committed any number of violent crimes with victims. The DA and the defendant’s lawyers usually plead away all the serious charges in exchange for guilty pleas and long-range sentences on the “nonviolent, nonserious and nonsexual” charges. The prosecution gets to avoid two pitfalls: One, the risk of a liberal/race jury saying “not guilty” or hanging up, and two, the risky politics of the testimony of the human victims of these defendants’ violent crimes.
* Ding ding ding, we (almost) have a winner:
States that have elected two Republican senators tend to have much lower levels of economic inequality than states which have elected two Democratic senators. Democrat-dominated states tend to have higher percentages of very rich people, higher percentages of very poor people, and a lower percentage of middle-income people.
Like I said, we *almost* have a winner.
Here’s the rest of the story: The reason blue states hardly have a middle class is that blue states tend to be non-white immigrant-heavy.
INTERNATIONAL
* Britain is broke, even broker than the United States. Yet, they can STILL afford to give away free cars to parents of children with fake diseases, fake diagnoses meant to hustle drugs.
* That the EUPU nanny state is getting so anal-retentive about kids’ toys? Not surprising. What is surprising is that this news is cast in light of that horrible C-word, that censorable and censurable holiday whose very name will probably soon be illegal hate speech in Europe.
* Madness? Yes. Is David CaMORON in a hurry to fix it? No.
Vote BNP. If you claim to care about these things, but vote for a party other than BNP, you must be out of your mind.
* British “conservative” media: Murder? Feh. White right wingers want justice and protest? Worst thing in the world.
HISTORY
Because intricate animal husbandry on the part of humans didn’t begin until the agricultural revolution, (not coincidentally, I might add), this means thatt Upper Paleolithic Era humans were very unlikely to have domesticated dogs by seizing relatively docile wolf pups from their mother’s den then raising them themselves. This probably gives further crediblity to Dr. Raymond Coppinger’s theory of the “trash dump” model of accidental domestication.
TECHNOLOGY
* Why Univision Radio? Anything “Univision” is only relevant to a one-language ethnic quasi-racial minority in the United States, and Univision Radio has almost all audience. So why are they trying to torpedo DVR-type technology for radio?
My theory is that the entire media industry would love to kill DVR-for-radio, mainly because if you, for example, can “DVR” a given talk radio show, this means you don’t have to buy the given host’s “24/7″ or “365″ service in order to get their official podcasts. In other words, it’s a revenue threat. However, maybe the industry is worried about taking on DVR-for-radio in a full frontal head-on mode, for PR concerns. Perhaps they’re floating a trial balloon by having an insignificant entity like Univision Radio be their front.
* Now that the crying is almost done, the truth telling can begin again. I agree with most of this, don’t agree with some. But my main grind against Steve Jobs and the iCabal was its insular “walled garden” nature. You can’t install Mac OS on commodity hardware (without some intenable and unstable hacks, anyway), and that is by design – Mac hardware’s CPUs need to have special on board “handshakes” in order to be able to boot up Mac OS. Bill Gates and MSFT might have been bad in a lot of ways, but there is no way in hell he would have been able to get away with locking down Windows to specific hardware. Also, what is this business of having to “activate” the iPhone and iPad using iTunes? Buy an Android phone or tablet, and you don’t need to activate schmactivate anything, just turn on and enjoy.
I’m so glad AAPL didn’t win the desktop OS war way back when.
