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Virginia wants to create a database of people that watch porn on the internet… maybe they can create different reelection ads and solicit campaign contributions for each type of porn watcher. The proposed plan is to block people that don’t pay their new porn tax.
How does this differ from the crime of living off the proceeds of a prostitute?
http://www.13newsnow.com/news/local/virginia-proposes-porn-watching-fee-to-prevent-human-trafficking/512710163
Perhaps the proceeds till be used to pay for Viagra for Medicare recipients? lol
There was a time when “number running” was a serious crime. Now it is a nationwide business run by the government to fund teacher pensions.
There was a time, when shitting outdoors on a city sidewalk was a crime…. No more. In Denver, it was just decriminalize so that the public shitters could remain in Denver forever and not returned to a place where they may have come with no plumbing and a reliance on digging holes in order to shit in a more sanitary way than on a public surface.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/to_protect_illegals_from_deportation_denver_decriminalizes_pooping_on_the_pavement.html
If you are caught, you should pretend not to speed English and be here illegally. Enforcement is sanctuary cities is eased on illegal aliens rather than citizens through “discretion” of the City Council. In other word, if someone is here illegally, they have more rights and freedoms than citizens.
The good news is that I find a place that has in January 2018 just embraced fines and fail for urination in public!
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/People-who-urinate-in-public-should-be-fined-or-jailed-Zanetor-Rawlings-618630
Remember when we were kids? The whole of Congress used to applaud the mention of the National Anthem or the American Flag?
Canada just voted to change the lyrics of their national anthem so that it doesn’t violate the law requiring gender neutral language.
Virginia elected my “good friend” Terry McAuliffe (grew up near each other) as the Governor. Not much in Virginia would surprise me after that.
Fred, I know you’re not a big fan of links from other blog sites posted her, but by God, it’s you’re old friend Candy Krush!!!! 😉 Enjoy the photos.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-01/dems-caught-playing-candy-crush-during-state-union
According to the EverDrive app, I am the best driver in Charlotte and the 31st best driver in North Carolina.
https://www.everquote.com/everdrive/
Fred – I know you understand what information is collected and where it goes from Everdrive. Similar to Progressive’s click-in device.
Intrusive.
Absolutely.
The underlying purpose seems to be for insurance companies to track the driving behavior of the users – like maybe having a < 25 year old male to get a lower rate. This is quite similar to what uber uses within its app to filter out drivers who speed, accelerate or brake hard or go around corners too hard. It has a way to turn off the tracking temporarily so Countess won't find out about my girlfriend who works at Bi-Lo in Pineville.
I believe it’s purpose is to be able to document and charge more for drivers based on their definition of “behavior”.
It makes me think about how much data on me is held by Google, Amazon, E-Bay and all the other players. At some point, someone or something may have to intervene lest we live out the Matrix “reality”.
San Francisco is getting so crowded, nobody wants to live there anymore
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/02/08/san-francisco-bay-area-mass-exodus-residents/
We’ve moved beyond journalism to anti-journalism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek-editors-blast-executive-to-his-face-what-youre-doing-is-bullshit-you-dont-understand-journalism
Journalism 2018 is simple. (No offense intended to retired former journalists living in North Carolina.). Here are today’s key journalism rules that I have gathered from watching cable tv:
1. ) Stand in front of a subject’s work building and restate what he had said earlier in the day, or the day before.
2.) If he comes out, ask him if he still stands by what he said, or had heard how a key Democrat feels about it.
3.) If it is cold or raining while you are outside, spend a few minutes talking about the weather before coming to your point.
That’s it. Do I have enough SRG points for an honorary degree in Journalism? lol
3(a) – and tie it to global warming
Financial journalists during a stock decline have a much more complicated set of rules
– mention all prior crashes
– explain that Federal Reserve interest rates control the stock market
– blame fear about inflation
– explain that increases in economic activity causes the stock market to go down
– work to create a panic for higher ratings
In a very general sense, I viewed the stock market like a tight rope and the job of the market and the regulators to keep the tight rope from swaying – due to inaccurate accounting, concealed surprises and people touting stocks (or talking them down) for personal gain.
Yes. Just my dos ¢ : They also like to pull out the book of Clichés too. (Hard to find a keyboard with a “é” and a “¢ “):
They include:
It’s different this time.
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.
Good news is bad news.
… and a few old pithy comments from Warren Buffet, especially the one about swimming naked when the tide goes out.
Emoticons are where it is at
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well, another saturday night without the ‘Spaceman’. CC you let me know if you hear about the ‘spaceman’ back on radio somewhere. ( Not ‘Spacey’) or the guy in a Tesla headed to Mars either.
Remember the Moons of Mars ? Phobos, he was a character in the Game Quake. Love that game. and the other Moon,,, tic tic tic. ?
my 401 K is back to 2013. Easy come, easy go. It was funny money anyhow.
I havn’t been listening to the radio as much lately. I am hoping God, or Jesus will give me some advice on life and career. My review at work is this week. maybe that will be the sign, New boss, same as the old boss. I’m getting to old for this Carp.
Have a good one guys
parrott
I hear that spaceman headed to Mars had stowed away an emotional peacock – the same one that was rejected by United Airlines last week. That turkey can now fly!
Parrott, I’ve been thinking about your question for the last couple of days. I am not an expert on Spaceman. I sampled the show once or twice and it wasn’t for me. I do have a recommendation for you though. Less popular topics are covered really well outside of high powered big city radio stations. In particular, podcasts are much lower cost and usually free to listen.
There are podcast search engines that work similar to google and will show you either individual episodes of a podcast, or series. If you find a series you like, you can subscribe with a podcast player app on your phone or one the PC. Apple, I understand, has its own outstanding podcast player. Android has several. One I recommend on Android Podcast Addict. It has its own podcast search engine.
I googled podcast search engine and found that Lifehacker recommends a podcast search engine called Listen Notes. I searched for “spaceman” and found 2,165 results. You can scroll through them, or search for individual spaceman topics such as UFO etc.
https://www.listennotes.com/
Let us know how you make out.
CC
I hope CFMJ misses me and the two other people I know of that use to stream’listen’ to their station most every evening and Saturday nights. Freaks.
I read that it cost more to mine a bitcoin now than what they are really worth.
Remington Firearms filed for bankruptcy protection. Reuters says they are 950 million in debt. Cerberus capital management probably sucked them dry.
.22 ammunition is plentiful now, prices are going down, so get some if you use it.
parrott
I just started up the CFMJ stream to see what was going on and a caller wished the host Happy Radio Day. I did a little research and found out that Feb. 13 was established as Radio Day by UNESCO. I’ll try to suppress my disdain for anything UN-connected as I nonetheless wish all of you in Fred & Countessland a very HAPPY RADIO DAY!
Not a fan of UNESCO either, but glad to see one not created by Hallmark to sell special greeting cards.
You all are Hilarious ! Yeah, blah-phooey on U N carp.
parrott
Favorite Streaming commercials and/or public service announcements?
I love one on WTRW for a local inventment advisor that I think also has a program on the station. It makes me laugh each time I hear it. Paraphrasing it, ” Mr Wrongway, stocks are way up, time to buy buy buy…. Mr Wrongway, another bad day on Wall Street, time to sell, sell, sell” LOL
I have been listening to Chris Plante on WXML in Connecticut. They are a local station with the New England accent and their station ID says they are “New Stalk 980” lol
Word this morning is that the taxpayers will have to pay for the tearing down of a building at the Plankland Florida school. After the shooting in Connecticut several years ago, taxpayers had to pay for the tearing down of the entire school and the design and construction of a totally new one at a different location.
Is it just me, or does this seem to be a flagrant waste of tax payer money?
The Federal government had tips on this Parkland shooter yet approved him to buy a guy. They did the same for the Las Vegas mass shooter last fall- if someone that was not a government employee had done so, that person would have been in handcuffs a long time ago. The buildings are not responsible, government employees approving he purchases are responsible.
Israel learned the way to deal with people wearing suicide vests into a restaurant was to immediately clean up the scene and provide no visual evidence that anything happened. Tearing the building down and putting up a memorial to the people who died is exactly what motivated Mr What’s-his-name.
It’s common sense to me. With all the recent talk of tearing down monuments of the civil war veterans, why would we want to create memorial buildings that honor what’s-his-name here and what’s-his-name there?
Mr Wrongway surfaces again.
Another “Is it just me?” from CC:
Is it just me, or does the recent Mueller finding seem too much like Hillary blaming Benghazi on an American peacefully exercising his constitutional rights to free speech?
I do get he identity theft issue that he identified where the individuals pretended to be someone else to use paypay but the free speech issue bothers me. The Supreme Court has long ruled that people in the country lawfully have a right to free speech. Even people here unlawfully while they do not have the rights of citizens, do have a right to free speech.
I don’t know if these individuals were in the US when they posed on Facebook or Twitter, but there is no law that they be in the US when they do so.
Sure they spoke to influence opinion, but have you seen CNN or MSNBC recently? They provided coverage of a non-citizen illegal invader that spoke at the Democrat National Convention in 2016. That illegal speaker spoke and CNN / MSNBC provided air time with the intent to influence opinion. Where are the Mueller indictments there?
It’s not you. As others have pointed out, the United States routinely meddles in other country’s elections, up to and including killing the leaders of other countries. Larry King and Ed Schultz broadcast for RT. BBC propaganda is freely carried on many US subsidized NPR stations for 6 or more hours a day. Cuba sends newspapers to college radio stations (or at least used to). Former President Obama went to Cuba and posed in front of Che’s mural. The U.N. urges the United States to repeal the 2nd amendment.
Hillary lost because she is feeble and ran a campaign based on the assumption there was no need to campaign, and showing disrespect to Bernie Sanders, who represents a big swath of the Democratic Party. Nobody realistically believes that she lost because of a twitter hashtag.
RAILROAD streams:
This may be of interest to some of the railroad buffs here. I was updating some broken links for an streaming application and found it had links from the site below. The site offers streams from railroads across the USA by location. Enjoy:
http://www.railroadradio.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,125/
Cool, Thanks CC! I had a good Uniden scanner back in the day, but I wore that thing out back in the 90’s.
thanks
parrott
Spaceman is from Ontario. 😉
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/world/canada/windsor-hum.html
Seriously, I have been reading about the Windsor hum since last year…. around the time the Cuban high frequency sounds appeared.
Maybe is has something to do with countries with radio stations that have call letters starting with a “C”. 😉
Curious stuff. I have read a lot of articles on the Cuban noises and the Canadian noised, but no where did I ever see an article that mentioned both. SRS has the scoop here with another first.
BTW- None of the articles – either on the the Canadian noise or the Cuban noise mention the Ontario Spaceman either. 😉
Update: Neighbors in Michigan have been working on it and may have solved it… (the Cuban sounds rather than the Windsor, ON sounds):
https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-these-computer-scientists-solve-the-cuban-sonic-attack
Mohabbatein was an interesting movie
Probably not going to see this one on CNN / MSNBC:
https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/lawyers-for-the-dnc-argue-that-primary-rigging-is-protected-by-the-first-amendment/