Amazing story and use of fMRI scanner to communicate with coma patient.

https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/904937532835500032

Time is .
. . odd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg

How winners handle their mistresses.

Hi Snoopy, Hi Ben, Hi miscellaneous Daves, and all the rest of you.

Scott’s brain exploded in an array of colour-activation, indicating that he was indeed responding to our request and imagining he was playing tennis.

Seriously, that piece is a howlingly undergraduate Ted talk.

Hadn't heard about this.

A reasonably thorough index of Arpaio's many "wins.




Can someone explain exactly what's going on in this video? Is it that they're using a car cigarette lighter to power a smartphone?

And now, in the warm/fuzzy department, this man's parents flew in all the way from India, just to help their son beat his wife.

Just gets you right here, doesn't it? How many parents do you know who would traverse a hemisphere just to inflict aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, battery, and domestic violence on an innocent woman, to say nothing of the abuse suffered by her helpless child?

I mean, that's love! Oh, I'm so touched I could just cry.

And people say parents just aren't dedicated to their kids any more!

Can someone explain exactly what's going on in this video? Is it that they're using a car cigarette lighter to power a smartphone? ~ Crid at September 5, 2017 2:50 AM

The guy is showing how to use a 9-volt battery to charge a cell phone. Although the 9-volt charge from the battery is too high for a cell phone to handle, the car adapter stops it down to a level that won't blow the phone out. Haven't tried it, but if it works, it seems like kind of a useful trick to know.

And now, in the warm/fuzzy department, this man's parents flew in all the way from India, just to help their son beat his wife. ~ Patrick at September 5, 2017 3:05 AM

Millennials. Can't they do anything for themselves? Must their parents do everything for them?

Apropos of nothing at all, here's one of my all-time favorite anecdotes from this here internet computer weblog:

Jim S. at September 2, 2011 2:41 PM

Yes Conan that will work with most car adapters.

A cell phone runs off of the USB standard and takes 5V+/-10% (some will work with +/-20% but not all). Cars offer 12V. But many car-to-USB adapters are pretty flexible taking anywhere from 6V-18V and putting out 5V. At the worst the adapter won't turn on so this is perfectly safe to try.

But getting the contacts to touch is annoying.

> kind of a useful trick

Ah, okay. I was confused by the adapter.

Kaus, still steamin'.

For Dan fans.

Punishing review of "Guns, Germs & Steel."

A little late for it maybe. And besides... To get so much of its topic partly right is a considerable achievement for a best-seller.

I like this book, two years older, for it's handling of the 'germs' part.

For Dan fans. ~ Crid at September 5, 2017 5:53 AM

Been a tough week for guitarists.

First Walter Becker and then Dave Hlubek.

Yes Conan that will work with most car adapters. ~ Ben at September 5, 2017 5:39 AM

Good to know. Thanks.

Before and after: The private sector guy grew new muscles; the guy who spent government money grew new hair.

Interesting proposal. I might even like it.

The income tax on individuals is gone. The corporate tax is gone. No longer will business decisions be income tax dependent. Compliance costs will plummet. The enhanced payroll tax is effectively a tax on the use of labor. Capital use is taxed via the tax on unearned income paid by businesses to taxpayers.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/why_cant_the_whole_tax_code_be_more_like_fica.html

Saw this in a couple places this morning, but if you hadn't heard, a new Lord of the Flies is in the works, but with stranded girls instead of boys.

At this point, nobody seems to know how different the new movie would be from the book or the prior film adaptations, but I suspect regardless of what happens, somebody's going to be apoplectic about it. In the Joanne Jacobs post linked above, the word "problematic" appears in one of her quotes.

From crids Arpio article

Arpaio oversaw a scheme to pay someone to attempt to assassinate him, even supplying the man with bomb-making materials, so that he could entrap the fake “assassin” and send him to prison, ruining the hapless man’s life.

The man in question was mentally retarded

Saw this on my niece's Facebook:

The UK's Daily Mirror bills itself as the "Intelligent Tabloid," whatever that means. A few days ago, their reporters told us that a "secretive US Air base is home to hoards of dead and alive aliens kept in tunnels underground."

That "secretive US Air Base" is Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, which is about as secret as Bill Shatner's hairpiece. And the whistleblower featured in the story never 'zackly saw any aliens, but nobody ever denied it either, so...

I grew up near there, and we heard stories like that all the time, mostly told with a wink or a chuckle. One of 'em even had the alien corpses stored in the building my Daddy worked in!

Daddy denied it, of course, but he would, wouldn't he?

Maybe your daddy was an alien? and as I recall, Writ-Pat is home to an Air Force Museum.

Meanwhile, guess the party:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/904824139898343429

Wait, isn't bacon a vegetable?

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/05/jews-and-muslims-sue-kfc-dennys-after-finding-bacon-in-food/

Hillary in the news.

Yeah, you know exactly what it's about.

I see that Rahm Emmanuel has declared Chicago a "Trump-Free Zone".

Meanwhile Tororicious vs Kejuan continues unabated and Emmanuel appears unmoved.

Kaus is correct.

Trump doesn't have the principles, or even the clarity, to pull this off.

The man isn't up to the office of the Presidency... Even if you affirm what might so casually be described as "his politics."

Conan: Millennials. Can't they do anything for themselves? Must their parents do everything for them?

You know what? You're right.

I mean, I was so touched by his parents' willingness to fly to Florida (what the hell is wrong with my state?) to help out their son, that I overlooked the obvious question.

What kind of 33-year-old doesn't know how to beat his wife without having to bring in his parents?

Trump doesn't have the principles, or even the clarity, to pull this off. ~ Crid at September 5, 2017 11:34 AM

Let's keep in mind that Obama made promises to those "800K immigrants" that were unconstitutional and that he could not keep. No one seems to be tracking on the fact that DACA was an unconstitutional executive order, not a legal policy directive.

Immigration law is the purview of Congress, even a Congress so afraid to risk taking a stand that my turn out to be unpopular that it is happy to surrender its constitutional duties and pass the enacting of laws to the president, of whichever party and then loudly and publicly whine about whatever the president does.

The California Assembly did that years ago, surrendering actual lawmaking to popular initiatives and public plebiscites and only voting to award itself raises or tax rich people of the wrong political affiliation.

Trump, for whatever reasons (be they principles or political cowardice), is actually doing the right thing. He's rescinding an unconstitutional executive order signed by his predecessor, he's letting people who would be exiled to what is, for them, a foreign country by that rescission have time to make arrangements, and he's letting Congress have time to enact a program by which those folks could gain citizenship or a green card or even clearly state that illegal immigration will not be rewarded - that is, if Congress can actually find the time in between bipartisan attacks on the president to enact anything substantial.

"What kind of 33-year-old doesn't know how to beat his wife without having to bring in his parents?"

And they say imported labor is necessary because Americans can't do the job. #Sad

> No one seems to be tracking on
> the fact that DACA was an
> unconstitutional executive order,
> not a legal policy directive.

Can't find it now because it was a sip of Twitter's mighty fire hose, but some guy this morning said it was more like just a memorandum. Also. (I haven't looked it up, and might never.)

A fascinating page from Hillary's new memoir, WTGDF Happened.

I really think this is going to cause tremendous suffering to a number of dear people.

But it was about thirty or fifty years of lefty presumption that brought us to this point. In Roe, Obergefell and a hundred thousand lesser matters, smug, socially sketchy people convinced themselves that they were so smoochingly elevated from the riffraff surrounding them that they needn't bother with persuasion or even consultation.

And now Donald Trump is the President of the United States.

Radley Balko, whom I richly admire, is spitting and frothing in his most unctuous-ever condition of butthurt today, as if he alone wears the X-Ray Specs that so enthused us as children.

Well, Goddamit, I *like* a lot of lefties. And I like a lot of lefty thought.

But if he and maybe a hundred thousand other liberal thinkers had shown as much heartfelt concern for the tens & tens of millions of
lifelong loyal Americans who already live here but are being excluded from the machinery of wealth & reward through government, then we wouldn't have a motherfucking television game show host in the Oval Office, that venue of recent & famously swollen authority.

But farmers and coal miners and community college students are icky and unfashionable and unflattering to talk to. So here we are.

I'll see your FEMA and Red Cross, and raise you an H-E-B.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inside-story-what-took-keep-texas-grocery-chain-running-chip-cutter

"E's layke MacGregor, E's gut no laygs lift...!"

Re: 2:31pm——

Birthright, American birthright, should count for something in your heart.

If it doesn't, you have no business clucking at anyone else's beliefs regarding citizenship.

> And I like a lot of lefty thought.

We've noticed.

> But if he and maybe a hundred thousand other
> liberal thinkers had shown as much heartfelt
> concern for the tens & tens of millions of
> lifelong loyal Americans who already live here but
> are being excluded from the machinery of wealth &
> reward through government, then we wouldn't have a
> motherfucking television game show host in the
> Oval Office
> But farmers and coal miners and community college
> students are icky and unfashionable and
> unflattering to talk to. So here we are.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but yes, exactly right.

It's totally perfect if you keep your judgments to your silent self.

Why would any sane person have trusted him?

I mean, I was so touched by his parents' willingness to fly to Florida (what the hell is wrong with my state?) to help out their son, that I overlooked the obvious question.

What kind of 33-year-old doesn't know how to beat his wife without having to bring in his parents?

All of them are idiots. The proper way was to fly them to another country -where it's legal-
using whatever excuse needed and then, beat the crap of your spouse.

It also works wonders on spoiled-rotten, smug teenagers.

> It's totally perfect if you keep your judgments to your silent self.

Like you always do?

                                (shhh) 

"Trump, for whatever reasons (be they principles or political cowardice), is actually doing the right thing."

I'm betting on brownian motion. It doesn't take much effort to be better than the last few guys.

Lujlp, they do that with drug offenses too. Some cops will make friends with some retarded people. Get them to start running drugs. And then they have people to arrest whenever they need a few to meet monthly quotas.