September, from the Latin Septum, meaning Seven.
Latin seems so non-inclusive. Each special interest group in the Democratic Party should be encouraged to rename days, months and planets.
September, from the Latin Septum, meaning Seven.
Latin seems so non-inclusive. Each special interest group in the Democratic Party should be encouraged to rename days, months and planets.
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South East Transporation Authority of Pennsylvania… flush that down to your septum tank. 😉
BTW- Ever wonder why the market tends to tank in septum?
Howard Sprague had a deviated septum
Jack Dodson did too… as the month draws to a close, I'm left wondering if it prevented Sprague from ever becoming a septuagenarian before he was canceled.
You may have read about the Google strategy to stuff search terms with irrelevant results to try and drown out Alex Jones Without overtly banning him.
Coinciding with the change of the name of the blog, I allowed Google to start indexing the blog. I was somewhat amused when I did a search on Howard Sprague deviated septum what came up.
For those who don't know what I'm referencing,
http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2012/07/mayberry-mondays-48-health-fund-031670.html
Just an observation that Jack Dodson died at 63, and I am approaching 64.
Wow. That was an interesting read… from back before deviant septum was a gender or am orientation. [a difference without a distinction 😉 ]
Good luck on becoming a septuagenarian. You should make it. Remember, Jack Dodson never had Obamacare. 😉
Careful with the reference to deviated *eptums. Right now they are hidden and pop up in virtually no google searches. The reference, while there, was not prominent in http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com web page. Why is it important to keep these references hidden and low profile?
Well, if you listen to Coast to Coast AM, you would know about the standard practice aliens use where they insert probes into abductees’ *ectum…. So far, there have been no reports of them inserting a probe into an abductee’s *eptum.
It is so secret, even Alex Jones doesn't talk about it. 😉
Now that is just deviated.
Parcopresis and paruresis have deviated, per NY Times… isn't is sexist just to think that? Perhaps that is what aliens are studying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/style/women-poop-at-work.html
So I didn't read every single word of the New York Times story, but I had the sense that they don't really have a solution in mind.
See, there I go being a man again, trying to solve problems. You would think by now I would understand that all I need to do is listen and pretend that I care.
This was on WCSP 90.1 Washington, DC today (C-SPAN Radio) and is very interesting. It is four very smart articulate college students debating Libertarianism and Conservatism (the two main factions of the Republican Party). While all the media is focused on the factions in the Democratic Party due to the primaries, this is a refreshing change. Both sides are very thoughtful and though-provoking and the SRG people that listen to talk radio should enjoy it:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?463355-1/cato-institute-heritage-foundation-interns-debate-libertarianism-versus-conservatism
"Their version of Unix, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), was picked up by developers at NeXT, the company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple in 1985. When Apple purchased NeXT in 1996, BSD became the starting point for OS X and iOS."
and
" Linus Torvalds, a university student in Helsinki, Finland, used several of the GNU tools to write an operating system kernel that would run on PCs. And his software, eventually called Linux, became the basis of the Android operating system in 2004."
from: "Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-mainframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Did did everyone go? Is Setma cooking dinner for Setpa?
What what is the question?
Thinkprogress is shutting down
Yes, I do think that. 😉
I think WBAI is shutting down… abruptly, I think.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/07/new-york-based-wbai-radio-abruptly-shuts-down/
Some of my time recently is been learning about intermodal transportation. I have to admit I overestimated is possibilities for pulling trucks off the road. CSX built a huge facility in North Baltimore Ohio. They seem to have this notion that a shipper would drive their trailer a hundred miles out of their way to drop it at a transmodal terminal in the middle of a corn field to avoid delivering this shipment directly to their custoner 200 miles away.
Now the facility basically just chops up sections of trains arriving from other railroads and splices pieces together based on the destination. Following the Krispy Kreme business model, if sales are down, raise prices.
Norfolk Southern just laid off 130 people in Roanoke.
In Elwood, Illinois BNSF has screwed things up so badly, dray drivers returning empty containers average 57 minutes waiting on the street just to get in the gate
90% of freight is still going by truck.
Need a federal program to build train tracks to the back of every Walmart.
If you peruse Elwood, IL on Google Earth, there are a significant number of huge facilities there. Walmart's is 3 million square feet. Other players are IKEA, Georgia Pacific, Samsung, ExxonMobil, Home Depot, Dollar Tree, Amazon, and right in the middle, an Army base.
Elwood is to trucking as Cushing Oklahoma is to oil.
I always think of Elwood when I think of the Blues. Jake and Elwood, in fact. 😉
If I change the name of the blog to America loves Chick-fil-A macaroni and cheese, do you think it would increase traffic?
Correct orientation
Speaking of which, the author of the famous HB2 transgender bathroom bill is running in a special election tomorrow. Countess gets to vote, but I am now in the Alma Adams 12th district where all I can do is vote for her best hat. WBTV drove up to Greensboro because it is clear she is still living outside of the district she represents. Then again, George HW Bush said he was living in a hotel room in Houston TX.
Dan Bishop won. Two Mecklenburg County precincts held out until 11:00 pm but stealing 4,000 votes was beyond reach so McCreavy conceded
So get your gender identity cards in order…
The city of Charlotte was holding is primary as well, which I did not know until I saw the election results. The primary election for everything else is in October.
The good news for people who still live in Charlotte is that the craziest of the crazy city council members was voted out. She had a safe district but for some reason ran at large.
Among her more interesting things is she said that police are terrorists and that 911 what is actually a controlled demolition, The Alex Jones version of Truth. She thinks she lost because of robocalls made to people in the white part of Charlotte.
New Jersey does something similar – school budgets and boards are not elected in November when everyone votes, but sometime in the spring when only people with children will vote and vote for people that want to increase the spending.
They also use the snow day alert system to remind parents to vote, and exclude non-parents from the reminders.
New Jersey, "The Garden Corruption State"
"Correct orientation"?
What is the difference between "orientation" and "gender" in 2019? Isn't that a one to many relationships? 😉
Remember people used to ask "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?" I ask if in the world of political correctness, how is is possible that there exists no correct orientation? 😉
Hell no. This is Keto Nation… in fact, that would be a great name for traffic.
I realize that there are things going on outside the radio cave, and I may be the last one to find out.
I had to go to FedEx today to drop off a letter for my lawyer, and they have a big sign announcing that the big bad federal government is forcing them to ask for a government-issued photo ID to send a package, even if you are paying cash.
I wonder if I said I was in an illegal alien if they can waive that rule.
The City Fathers and Mothers of former tobacco capital Winston-Salem North Carolina want to dump the name of the annual Dixie classic Fair.
Wow, live music being performed on WTOB-AM
Dualng astroturfing
Daily caller on Hillary's campaign to destroy talk radio with seminar callers
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51641/report-democrats-supported-clinton-white-house-hank-berrien
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette demonizing Rush Limbaugh with it's [sic] story
https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2019/09/13/Brian-Rosenwald-Talk-Radio-s-America-Industry-Took-Over-Political-Party-United-States/stories/201909080004
Mr. Rosenwald of course is full of crap. He asserts that it is talk radio that got Donald Trump elected.
Just off the top of my head, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and Hugh Hewitt were firmly anti Trump and Cindy McCain was given an election year forum to blast Trump non stop on radio.
Dems hate Trump so much – they overlook the fact that it was the American people who elected Trump. Which points out one interesting aspect – both parties have ignored the American people for a very long time.
Speaking is an overweight person, I noticed Cindy McCain has put on a lot of weight. This is usually a marker for somebody who is unhappy. Former radio host Laura ingraham apparently "fat-shamed" Cindy McCain. This is not new, Laura frequently would complain about all the fat people in America. However, Cindy McCain is female and she appears on television. That still matters, unless of course you are Oprah Winfrey, in which case you make a billion dollars well people watch you gain weight and lose weight. Isn't America wonderful?
Interesting reads. Talk radio was the social media of the 90s and the Dems tried to use it to influence public opinion. They were more effective taking over the education system where virtually all teachers are members of government employee unions that favor more government spending and donate almost exclusively to Democrats.
Notice that most liberal newspapers and web sites have cut off access to comments sections after political articles. They are trying to prevent the same infiltration of their media channel that they tried to use on talk radio in the 90s. Others "moderate" their comments so that only ideas they approve of will be included.
For some good daily political analysis, I recommend this new free site of Wide World of News by Mark Halperin. His reports are about as fair as they can be. He is one of the few reporters that covered Trump objectively and said that Trump was being grossly underestimated throughout 2015 and 2016. He does good analysis.
https://wwofnews.com/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/google_and_their_pals_are_worse_than_anyone_thought.html
The magical reality was that even Donald J Trump thought he was going to lose, so nobody took the threat seriously. I dislike Karl Rove because of his attitude was – all we need is 50% plus one vote, and screw principles and who we push under the bus. That's the first thing they teach you in political science 101. If you don't win, you don't govern, so do whatever you have to do to win.
YouTube/Google has decided to pull the plug on Right Side Broadcasting Network. Denations to RSBN are not tax deductible as 501(c)(3) entities cannot engage in political activities. RSBN live streams Trump rallies. RSBN has no "strikes" and there are no allegations of copyright infringement.
https://rsbnetwork.com/
I want to put in a plug for Kodi, especially for Parrott. Like Firefox, Kodi is a free open community app available for Windows, Linux, smartphones. Kodi takes things that are harder to do in Firefox or VLC and makes them more user-friendly. Any media you can play in VLC, you can play in Kodi. The big difference is that once you configure Kodi to your liking, it is much much more user friendly… but it does take some time to set up.
You can create a list of favorite streams and they can appear as a list of channels like cable TV set top boxes present channels. There are also plug-ins for a free DVR, lots of radio streaming apps such as Tunein.
I use it with my HDHomeRun product to watch local over the air TV. You can also use a different HDhomerun product to watch your cable channels by renting a cable card from your cable company for about $5 per month. Check it out. Lots of how-to Kodi videos on Youtube as well.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Main_Page
Cokie Roberts has died from complications of breast cancer
https://abcnews.go.com/US/legendary-journalist-political-commentator-cokie-roberts-dies-75/story?id=65633507
People used to make fun of Bill Clinton for for having a four part given name. Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs had six. Maybe that is a requirement to get you into Wellesley .
Matt Drudge's father ran refdesk.com, which I remember from the pre-google days.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/drudge-report-ad-revenue
For a day or so, I advertised FindAnISP.com on drudge report, probably in 2002. The people handling the ads at that point did something bizarre – instead of copying my banner ad they pointed the advertisement directly to my server, which meant I got to see the IP addresses of everybody visiting Drudge who saw my ad. It became apparent very quickly that Drudge was Auto refreshing his page, which meant there were lots of computers in newsrooms waiting to see the red siren, displaying ad after ad that nobody was going to see. I did not renew my advertising contract.
If the Drudge Report remove the auto refresh his billions of views would probably reduce by 90%. That does not mean he is an insignificant Force. I do worry that he does not have a succession plan
Now that I am aware of this, I notice the quality of the ads on Drudge has fallen off a cliff. I just got an advertisement for grooming products for male pubic hair. Sheesh.
Likewise for the actual links to stories; many of the sites have a paywall or subscriber login before they'll show you the article. Drudge is being 'gamed' as much as he gamed his 'page hits'.
I remember getting malware from a link via Drudge (years ago). After that incident he became more proactive on screening links, but over the past few months my anti-virus software has red-flagged several links from him. My wife prefers Breitbart…
His European news sources are also drying up. I think the anti-linking laws are just going to speed up the demise of the newspapers. The ultimate answer of course is government funding of news agencies.
Absolutely. In fact, we already have "a model for the rest of the country."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/06/new-jersey-journalism-local-news-civic-information-consortium
"5 million here, 5 million there, and pretty soon you're talking about newsworthy money." 😉
aka "Ministry of Public Enlightenment"
In response to a question about whether Vladimir Putin believes he’s being helped by the useful idiots in the Democratic Party, Sheila Jackson Lee popped up to declare that it was improper to call her an idiot. To which the Republican House member clarified, I said “useful idiot”
Take that to your flag on Mars and smoke it
The autumnal equinox has passed. Summer is over.
Mike Pence 2020 campaign moves forward. Mitt Romney surely thinks he will become VP
At the Climate Change conference, 100+ banks have pledged to stop lending money to oil and natural gas companies
This is why I prefer to bank locally.
Credit Unions are also a good option – almost all of them are small, have lower fees and avoid politics. The politics they do participate in is usually limited to opposing the big banks.
One of my three main college roommates got a job working as an auditor for the NCUA, roughly like the FDIC for credit unions. I don't tend to maintain relationships. He was older than me (he was in the military doing office work during Vietnam) and graduated in 1976. When I made my first attempt at returning to North Carolina, I looked him up in Mocksville where he grew up, and amazingly he was still living there, with his wife (who I knew from before they met each other) and two teenage daughters. I think this was around 2003.
We talked a bit about credit unions and how the person who organized one often viewed them as federally insured piggy banks with other people's money, so you really had to look at where the money was invested. It was nothing like the S&L collapse of the 1980s, but the temptations were there. The difference is most credit unions require depositors to live geographically close to the credit union or have another nexus like your employer.
I have to admit I was worried that his small town naivety was going to meet someday with a thug running a credit union. About a year later, I read in the college alumni paper that he was dead. After I returned to NC and reconnected to my other main roommate (who has since died), I learned he died of a sudden heart attack. About a week after my visit, one of his daughters was killed in a fatal car crash and he basically lost the will to live.
Many financial institutions, including banks, credit unions and pension funds are heavily invested in government debt. With interest rates negative in a growing number of countries and nearing negative in the US, this does not bode well. Lots of things could happen, including continuing to kick the can down the road…. but it is a game of hot potatoe, eventually some will get burned. Puerto Rico is an example on a very small scale.
Apple is going to let Siri talk to Tunein.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/apple-partners-tunein-voice-activated-144734013.html
Alexa has been able to do that for quite a while. Apple is a bit late to the party.
Former Senator Al Franken is getting a new "radio" job at SiriusXM. Maybe they could hire a former Republican Senator for balance.
Nobody talks to iTunes anymore.
https://www.apnews.com/1daa31be4070482ab2a8ddb251eddbf9
The Apple port of itunes to Windows was an absolute pig. The idea that you needed a desktop computer just to manage your iPad or iPhone was always a bad idea. I will not miss it. Not at all.
Forever 21 isn't
Amazon claims another victim
Not the first Domino to fall… or the last – this website issue can really mushroom.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/dominos-supreme-court.html
I may have told this story before, that I am an old man and that's what we do.
Back in the findanISP.com days, I had a clever trick in the web site. I realized that if you had a link that had no text, it was invisible to humans, but undeclared page scrapers (like the CIA) would invariably follow the link. Doing so earned you an immediate ban from the website. So the HTML code would look something like this
<a href="BanMeNow.php" title="Do Not click this link!"></a>
It was only a soft ban. You would be presented with a page telling you that to restore access you needed to answer a question like 2+2=?
If you repeated requesting the challenge page and not answering the question, after about 10 times it became a hard ban.
Even so, I had several blind people using screen readers who just had to touch the hot stove to see if it would really burn their fingers. I got the feeling they were hoping to have a lawsuit, however when I told them I was the son of a blind man they calmed down and vanished.