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Are we talking NCAA basketball? I just watched about a minute and a half of the Oregon/ North Carolina game, that's it, all I've seen, not my game.
Hüsker Dü
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Signs I maybe getting old . . . went to see a friends new band last night, he plays sax. Loved the old R&B tunes, hated the straight cover band shit. Don't get me wrong they are a tight band and it sounded great, but who cares? I felt like I was at somebody I didn't knows wedding. They had an after party at my friends house, besides it being well past my bedtime, I was afraid if I went I would tell them how I felt, pass. Went out to eat after the show and the restaurant had loud music playing so everyone had to lean in and speak LOUD to be heard, again, pass. The wife had a grand time so I didn't want to tell her how this old surf rock/punk rocker really felt.
. . . and no I didn't dance to effing Billy effing Idol!
. . . and no I didn't dance to effing Billy effing Idol!
University of Phoenix is a real thing, and has paid heavily for the naming rights (more than $150 million), but is not a member of NCAA. I'm not sure whether NCAA or the stadium had to pay a refund to UoP not to say it.
I got one of these calls months ago, perhaps from the same outfit. I told them where they could put their telephone and hung up on them --
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/09/news/tax-scam-india-arrest-ringleader/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/09/news/tax-scam-india-arrest-ringleader/index.html
On June 21, 1976, an F-14 crashed in the Miramar landfill area just south of Miramar NAS. The smoke from the crash drifted over the base.
One June 26, 1976, a second F-14 crashed less than a quarter mile from the first, while Navy and Grumman investigators were on the scene examining the wreckage of the first plane. All F-14s were grounded until their innermost airframe component could be inspected, and were limited to low-g maneuvers for several months afterward.
One June 26, 1976, a second F-14 crashed less than a quarter mile from the first, while Navy and Grumman investigators were on the scene examining the wreckage of the first plane. All F-14s were grounded until their innermost airframe component could be inspected, and were limited to low-g maneuvers for several months afterward.
Interesting article on the emerging "cult of ignorance", which we see examples of around here every day --
https://www.sott.net/article/313177...tellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America
https://www.sott.net/article/313177...tellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America
You're so smart.
Sheriff Joe
DA
How else will the illegals survive?
SDG&E is having troubles with the "My account" part of their website. They were able to email me a notice that my bill is ready (surprisingly low - must be time for the semi-annual carbon tax sharing benefit), but the link to view it crashed. Contact with that page has been intermittent over the last few days - "We are fixing the issue."
Hüsker Dü
DA
"Idiocracy", who knew Mike Judge was such a visionary.
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The comment section is hilarious!
"...deliberate gullibility ..." I'm going too have to remember that one.
And educated.
Wez
DA
What's funny is the righties in here will prove this story true by not reading it.
Love the Asimov quote made decades ago!
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Just finishing it now. The book covers the decisions made about Vietnam in the years 63 through 65. LBJ became President and decided his legacy would be a big domestic tax and spend program - the Great Society. However, he could not ignore what was happening in southeast Asia, so he conspired with SecDef MacNamara to gradually escalate military action against Hanoi, under the theory that all the trouble in South Vietnam was being directed and funded from the North, and the North would realize at some point in the escalation that we were the stronger party. In order not to impact the 64 elections, and thereafter not to drive Congress away from the Great Society legislation, he lied to the public and to Congress about what was happening. The Joint Chiefs disagreed with the gradual pressure plan, and they knew what the truth was, but they did not speak up publicly or in confidence with Congress - they let LBJ and Mac have their way. That is Mac Master's big indictment - that career military men failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.
As McMaster is now a key player in the Korea situation, it is appropriate to cite a statement from Clausewitz quoted in the book -- "The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes."
One more way for Congress to screw the troops --
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-gibill-tax-20170419-story.html
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-gibill-tax-20170419-story.html
Hüsker Dü
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That's really wrong and disgusting.
Now that the SDGE webpages are working again, I can see that my bill is so low because I got a $29.62 rebate from the Carbon Tax Program. Last time around (October) it was only $17.44.