Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 6:59:48 AM

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Good morning.  So I see at Insty that the D-MSM outlets are now openly asking whether Chris "Fredo" Cuomo had a hand in covering up his brother's sexual harrassment sins; and if he should be canned from CNN.

"Hail Mary, full of grace...

lucius septimius 8/11/2021 7:06:07 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

I'm sure Fredo has a golden parachute.  After a few months he'll end up on another network and there will be all sorts of sob stories about the "tragedy" of the House of Cuomo.  And he'll have a huge book deal.

Members of the lucky sperm club always land on their feet.

vxbush 8/11/2021 7:09:50 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 7:45:02 AM

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In #2 lucius septimius said: And he'll have a huge book deal.

And I always wonder; who the hell actually buys - let alone reads - those sorts of books? 

vxbush 8/11/2021 7:50:07 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: And I always wonder; who the hell actually buys - let alone reads - those sorts of books? 

People buy them to put them on their shelves and prove their progressive bonafides; they don't actually read them. 

Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 7:51:56 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

He's partially red-pilled.  He doesn't seem to realize yet that much of what seems to be an expression of "helplessness" from the Left -"we can't solve this problem" - is actually part of a strategy aimed and Getting And Maintaining Power.  It's not really about "helplessness" at all. 

vxbush 8/11/2021 8:18:07 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: He's partially red-pilled.  He doesn't seem to realize yet that much of what seems to be an expression of "helplessness" from the Left -"we can't solve this problem" - is actually part of a strategy aimed and Getting And Maintaining Power.  It's not really about "helplessness" at all. 

While that is true, and his inability to see this limits his recognition of the true situation, it is still a demonstration of how bad the progressive position is when even someone in the movement can point out such flaws. For that reason, I think it is useful to hold on to this. Presenting the entire situation of the strategy will definitely get considered to be a conspiracy theory by those wacky Conservatives and Christian Dominionists; this at least shows the problem from a more constructive mindset. 

JCM 8/11/2021 8:44:15 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

The problem is raison d'être for the "process".

The left has a process for every problem, a process that requires funding and control.

The process is everything, it continues the control and the money flow.

An actual solution would end the process, thereby ending the money and control.

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 8:52:36 AM

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Reply to JCM in 8:

I know I don't have the quote quite right, but

The most frightening thing is someone saying "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" -- Ronald Reagan

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 9:04:01 AM

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In #8 JCM said: The process is everything, it continues the control and the money flow. An actual solution would end the process, thereby ending the money and control.

Every process needs a bureaucracy to support it.

If it solves the problem, then the bureaucracy is not needed. Thus, it has an interest in perpetuating the problem.

Sometimes this is OK, like the FAA - keeping aircraft and air travel safe involves continuous work; inspections, ATC, running airports, etc.

Same with Department of Defense. Even if we could just destroy all our enemies, new ones would arise.

But a solution for "the homeless problem" would make the bureaucracy redundant, unless they got to run the new housing. But they fully know that they cannot run it safely, and it is better to not really own the solution than to have bad publicity.

JCM 8/11/2021 9:15:32 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:

The Founders had that figured out.

They limited government to those things which would be on going. Hence the enumerated powers.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 9:19:45 AM

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In #11 JCM said: They limited government to those things which would be on going.

A good way to put it, but with one important caveat; they limited FEDERAL government thus.  

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 9:41:08 AM

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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: Same with Department of Defense. Even if we could just destroy all our enemies, new ones would arise.

Sorry, no.  The "Department of Defense," which replaced the War Department in 1947, has never won a war. And why would it?  A War Department knows that its job is victory; a "Department of Defense" is not interested in victory, but is merely concerned with fending off immediate threats.  

JCM 8/11/2021 9:43:29 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:

The Several States do get to explore various structures of gov't.

I do subscribe to the concept of incorportation for the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights.

That can be used to limit the states, along with an informed electorate.

However the Fourth Estate was supposed to help inform the electorate has become the Fifth Column.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 9:56:06 AM

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In #14 JCM said: However the Fourth Estate was supposed to help inform the electorate has become the Fifth Column.

I'm trying to think of a good way to make some wordplay with "Fifth Column" and the "Five Pillars of Islam."

By the way, the term "Fifth Column" comes from the Spanish Civil War; there were four "columns" advancing on Loyalist Madrid, and the collaborators/sympathizers with the fascists besieging the city were referred to as "the fifth column."

The commanders of the four columns are memorialized in the song "Los Cuatro Generales," which is one of the songs in the album of 78s "Six Songs for Democracy," which claims it was recorded under bombardment in Madrid.  Fun story; when my father was at a conference in Britain, he and some of his colleagues went to a Spanish restaurant to eat.  The restaurant had an orchestra, and it was playing the Spanish folk tune that "Los Cuatro Generales" is a parody of.  Dad went up to the orchestra leader and said to him, "That was 'Los Cuatro Generales,' wasn't it? Can you play it that way?" The bandleader did a take, asked him how he knew that song; Dad gave him one of those noncommittal "well-you-pick-up-a-lot-of-things-here-and-there" answers.  The band played "Los Cuatro Generales"---and the entire staff saluted Dad when he and his colleagues left the restaurant.

JCM 8/11/2021 10:05:53 AM

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You know the old saw, "When seconds count the police are minutes away?"

It needs to be revised in Seattle.

When seconds count the police are an hour away.

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 10:45:39 AM

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In #16 JCM said: You know the old saw, "When seconds count the police are minutes away?" It needs to be revised in Seattle. When seconds count the police are an hour away.

But look, black men aren't getting killed by police! (Other blacks, yes, but they don't matter)//////////////////////

vxbush 8/11/2021 10:59:01 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 11:28:06 AM

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In #13 buzzsawmonkey said: a "Department of Defense" is not interested in victory

Well, the Israeli Defense Forces have done a pretty good job in that area.   

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 11:33:19 AM

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In #19 Occasional Reader said: Well, the Israeli Defense Forces have done a pretty good job in that area.   

Pretty well, yes.

However, I was speaking of the American "Department of Defense," and its dismal record for the entire time it has supplanted the War Department. The Israelis assumed the term "Defense" partly as a hat-tip to the US, partly to attempt to vainly reassure the rest of the world they were not the Bad Guys---and, frankly, given that most of the world is interested basically in knocking Israel's teeth out so that it can kick Israel in the stomach for mumbling, I think Israel should dump the weasel-word "Defense" also.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 12:03:21 PM

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In #20 buzzsawmonkey said: However, I was speaking of the American "Department of Defense,"

Yes, I understand.  My point was just that the nomenclature is not, IMHO, that important.  

I also don't really agree with the "DoD has never won a war" take on this question.  They've won wars; but the political establishment has then frittered those victories away.  

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 12:32:21 PM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: I also don't really agree with the "DoD has never won a war" take on this question.  They've won wars; but the political establishment has then frittered those victories away. 

What has the DoD "won?"  Korea? No.  Vietnam? No.  Carter's rescue of the Iran hostages?  No. Then, what?

It may have "won" the First Gulf War, but it still left Saddam Hussein in power so the job had to be done again---and the Iraq war appears to have been mismanaged from the moment victory was in sight.  Afghanistan---the one the Left was referring to as "the good one" back in the Obama years---was a disaster from the get-go.

Now, I'm aware that this pathetic performance is largely a matter of the political establishment snatching defeat from the jaws of victory---but part of that is the fact that the DoD, being a "defense" department instead of a war department, has neither the mindset nor the personnel to back up the mindset of a military bent on victory.   It is and has been a "fend-off" mindset, not a victory mindset, for almost 3/4ths of a century.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 12:49:00 PM

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In #22 buzzsawmonkey said: What has the DoD "won?"

Little ones:  Grenada and Panama - decisive victories, with litte or no "but then... " asterisk needed.

Medium-sized ones:  GW1 and GW2 were, IMHO, decisive miltary victories, in terms of declared war aims.  Arguably, Afghanistan as well (though then we get into a debate, did that war then end and a new one begin, or has it been the same war for 20 years).

Big ones:  No big ones... because we haven't had to (directly) fight a peer adversary since WWII; which arguably means that our Armed Forces ahve been doing their job better. 

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 1:09:54 PM

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Anti-Israel "rabbi" appointed to US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Apparently to her, religious freedom includes the freedom for Hamas Muslims to kill Jews in the name of Islam.

President Joe Biden appointed progressive Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, raising protests from American Jews.

Critics, including her own congregants, accuse Kleinbaum of abusing her pulpit at New York’s Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), the world’s largest LGBTQ congregation, to repeatedly demonize Israel.

At services in 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Kleinbaum read a list of Palestinian and Israeli casualties, including the names of Hamas terrorists, for special prayers. That prompted a number of members to quit CBST.

In 2011, Kleinbaum drew Jewish ire for her involvement in a Queers Against Israeli Apartheid event. Critics said her involvement “provided a fig leaf for Arab homphobia” and that her views didn’t represent gay Jews.

Maybe she should go to Gaza, where I'm sure she'll be welcomed with open rock throwing arms.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2021 1:15:38 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24:

The Gropey Joe regime is not even attempting to hide its hard-left radicalism any more.

" the world’s largest LGBTQ congregation

Oh FFS. 

JCM 8/11/2021 1:22:34 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

Korea, 'Nam, Operation Eagle Claw, Afghanistan and Iraq the military was denied the ability to have a victory by political con

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 1:38:19 PM

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In #24 Kosh's Shadow said: progressive Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

The "wife" of Randi Weingarten, head of the teachers' union.

vxbush 8/11/2021 2:00:01 PM

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Having trouble posting....cannot quote Buzz's #32 and reply. 

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 2:53:40 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 37:

Bleh. Hosting company fixed it Saturday. Will re-open the ticket

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 2:54:36 PM

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In #53 Kosh's Shadow said: Bleh. Hosting company fixed it Saturday. Will re-open the ticket

They seem to have fixed it

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 2:55:48 PM

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In #54 Kosh's Shadow said: They seem to have fixed it

Well, except for about ten missing posts...

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 2:58:26 PM

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In #53 Kosh's Shadow said: Hosting company

There should be a server that hosts only websites and blogs by churches, synagogues and other religious organizations.

It would, of course, be called "Heavenly Host."

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 3:03:09 PM

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In #55 buzzsawmonkey said: Well, except for about ten missing posts...

Posts that had shown up or ones you got the error message when posting?

If you get the error message, leave that tab open and use another tab or window.

Once it is back, refresh the original and tell it to resubmit the form

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 3:04:31 PM

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In #56 buzzsawmonkey said: It would, of course, be called "Heavenly Host."

Silicon chips are made several at a time on a "wafer", then the wafer is cut apart.

Heavenly Host would use the entire wafers

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 3:10:13 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 57:

My screen goes from #28 to #29 (error) to ###31, 32, 37, and then leaps to ##53-58.

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 3:17:15 PM

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In #59 buzzsawmonkey said: My screen goes from #28 to #29 (error) to ###31, 32, 37, and then leaps to ##53-58.

Based on my memory, those posts never showed up. Probably assigned the post number, then failed to store the post data.

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 3:17:40 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 60:

Does anyone remember those posts actually being there?

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2021 3:25:59 PM

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In #61 Kosh's Shadow said: Does anyone remember those posts actually being there?

I'll have to ask Chauncey Gardiner.

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2021 3:45:35 PM

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Replacing my NAS RAID1 device. That is, a box that is connected to the network and stores data. (Network Attached Storage). RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives, and in this case, RAID1 means it has 2 drives that duplicate data. If one fails, the data is still on the other, and the failed drive can be replaced, with the device copying data to the new drive.

Old one must be 5 years old and is acting up. New one arrived today Old had 2 2TB drives, for 4 TB, but in RAID1, only 2 TB available (since the data is duplicated). New one has 2 4 TB drives. Newer model, too.

Nice to see made in Japan, not China. US would be better, but at least I doubt it is a spy device.