"Don't come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first,"

Oh, the horror ...

http://www.meforum.org/blog/2016/08/uk-man-sentenced-for-offending-muslims

Huma had direct access to Hillary's email account(s) on her personal server. Did she have the requisite clearances to see any of the classified information contained therein?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/763112662142164992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3729466/Child-rape-victim-comes-forward-time-40-years-call-Hillary-Clinton-liar-defended-rapist-smearing-blocking-evidence-callously-laughing-knew-guilty.html

Meanwhile, in the Atlantic:

In less than two months (October 6, 2016) it will be 4,000 days since the last time a major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which was Wilma on October 24, 2005.

Wilma was a record-setter, being the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, with peak estimated sustained winds of 183 mph and lowest surface pressure of 882 mb. That surface pressure corresponds to a 13% removal of atmospheric mass in the core of the hurricane compared to normal sea level pressure.

But after the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, with a whopping 27 named tropical storms, the bottom pretty much dropped out of hurricane activity since then.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2016/08/will-we-reach-4000-days-since-a-major-hurricane-strike/

Spengler:

The choice, sadly, lies between an unlearned interloper with common sense and an Establishment whose policy response is predictable as the emergence of a gumball from a supermarket machine after a quarter is cranked in. They are mediocre ideologues incapable of learning from past failures, clinging to their careers because they are unsuited for honest work. Trump may not know much but he is capable of learning. That can’t be said for his detractors.

http://atimes.com/2016/08/trump-lacks-experience-but-his-detractors-lack-common-sense/

Solve the big govt tax bite for all, not just for the groovy: "Should that Olympic gold medal be tax deductible?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-mulls-giving-a-tax-break-to-olympic-champions

Trump supporter: The reason I like Donald Trump is because he always says what he means.

Trump: Someone shoot my opponent.

Trump supporter: Trump didn't mean it.

Go ahead, folks. Embarrass yourselves by trying to claim that Trump didn't mean that someone should shoot Hillary or her SCOTUS picks.

Patrick,
You gotta love the guy. He just says "stuff".

Not sure that what he says is what he really thinks (does he?) as opposed to what he's thinking(?) now.

It's the only logical reason I can think of.

I'm not sure what to make of him to be honest but I'm like Amy except opposite. No way I'm voting for Hillary. Maybe Kaine if the MSM really reported on her physical health.

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/now-sjws-want-video-game-developers-to-force-players-to-make-the-right-moral-choices/

Thread on Marco Rubio and the Zika virus (foul language ahead):

http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,409755

The article that sparked the thread is from The Daily Beast, as you'll see.

I realize, of course, that the greatest focus will - and should be - on developing a Zika vaccine, since most(?) women still want to have babies someday. But at the very least, I'd hope this would get certain politicians to rethink their opposition to women's access to the Pill - and I don't mean Plan B.

Just don't refuse to bake cakes and you're OK:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MUSLIM_FLIGHT_ATTENDANT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-09-11-39-59

Embarrass yourselves by trying to claim that Trump didn't mean that someone should shoot Hillary or her SCOTUS picks.

Tell me, were did he say to take direct action?

Oh, right, because we all know that otherwise law abiding gun owners lose all control and assassinate politicians and judges who disagree with them. Which is why Heller and McDonald were unanimous decisions by SCOTUS.

Many of the people having a case of the vapors over this didn't bat an eye when #BlackLivesMatter chanted what do we want? dead cops.

I'll muster up the requisite amount of outrage: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Teachers of Reddit: What is the most ridiculous thing you have heard a parent say?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4v8p30/teachers_of_reddit_what_is_the_most_ridiculous/

"An angry parent (of a 9 year old) approached me, hands on hips and in a very irritated voice said "I can't believe I got a B for that school project, it took a whole week to do" .....she pauses and says " I mean I can't believe SHE got a B". My silence was golden."

"My colleague was an excellent teacher in all respects, and was firm yet fair in all disciplinary matters. The high school student had a clueless blowhard as a mother, and had her wrapped around his little finger. He had no special needs or disabilities.
After several fruitless meetings at the school regarding the student's persistently inappropriate and disrespectful behavior, the parent sent a complaint letter directly to the district Board of Education:
"The school, and specifically Mr. Colleague, has no business enforcing rules or having any expectations of the kids whatsoever. My son hates coming to school because you expect him to behave. If he cannot be who he is, how do you expect him to learn?"

Some info from IEEE about the Delta Airlines meltdown yesterday. What caught my eye is the author's contention that most of the big IT system breakdowns in the past several years were initiated by faults in the physical infrastructure about the system, rather than the system itself. The implication -- I need to go read the report -- is that backup systems are ineffective because IT system designers don't consider what they call "particular risk", e.g., having a backup computer doesn't do any good if it's in the same room as the primary, and a tornado hits the building.

I R A: "Tell me, were did he say to take direct action?"

Ask and ye shall receive. I asked for someone willing to embarrass themselves, and I got one.

So, if I'm bothered by you personally, and I suggested that lovers of the Second Amendment might have a solution for you, that's okay? I wouldn't think so.

"Oh, right, because we all know that otherwise law abiding gun owners lose all control and assassinate politicians and judges who disagree with them. Which is why Heller and McDonald were unanimous decisions by SCOTUS."

All it takes is one Jim Adkisson or one Jared Lee Loughner. No one said that all or even most gun owners need to be imbalanced and determined to kill someone who thinks the opposite of a political figure. Just one. That's all it takes. Are you suggesting that not a single Trump supporter who loves the Second Amendment and was watching his speech where all just as stable as rocks and not one person would even consider doing what he suggested?

"Many of the people having a case of the vapors over this didn't bat an eye when #BlackLivesMatter chanted what do we want? dead cops."

Are you suggesting I fit this category? You'd be mistaken. In fact, I've already created my own video on YouTube denouncing Black Lives Matter, dated July 15th. I had to take it down, revise it and put it up again, but it was actually uploaded before that. And I'm working on another one going through the BLM narrative and covering each "victim" that they protest about to show that the entire movement is full of shit, divisive and sometimes dangerous.

Twin falls again. Dude's name is Mohammed.

Report: Another Disturbing Sexual Assault in Twin Falls

Those wacky migrants . . .

Migrant Centre Evacuated After Iranian Man Threatened To Blow Himself Up

Note how the authorities claim that heartache drove him to it.

Go ahead, folks. Embarrass yourselves by trying to claim that Trump didn't mean that someone should shoot Hillary or her SCOTUS picks. ~ Patrick at August 10, 2016 9:22 AM

Both of them are dangerous and neither is qualified, professionally or emotionally, to be president.

That said, I'm leaning toward Trump since he is not advocating an agenda that will undermine the Constitution.

Clinton has displayed hostility toward the Second Amendment and wants Heller overturned.

Clinton has said she wants a SCOTUS that will overturn Citizens United, a decision that said corporations and labor unions, as collective organizations representing citizens, both have a right of free speech.

The speech in question in the Citizens United that inflamed Hillary's lasting anger was a documentary highly critical of Hillary, but Trump is the one with dangerously thin skin.

Clinton also told the Benghazi victims' families that "we've arrested the filmmaker responsible...." So, she sees nothing unconstitutional in advocating the arrest of someone who makes a controversial film that the government doesn't like, but Trump is the one who is a danger to the Constitution.

Clinton is still being investigated by the FBI for her actions at State. Trump may be a sleaze ball, but his sleaziness has not as of yet attracted the concentrated attention of law enforcement.

Personally, I'm hoping the election gets kicked to a Republican House and the House selects someone like Paul Ryan, a man who eschewed partisan bomb throwing in favor of actually governing the country under the rules established in the Constitution.

Drat. That's what I get for not previewing. Here's the link.

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/italy-wants-to-jail-parents-who-put-their-kids-on-vegan-diets/

I sympathize with the kids on this one.

Here's what Trumpkins said:

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0

For Trump: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what do you mean, precisely? but I don't see any call to violence in that. But I'm a peaceable fellow.

I suspect that the more immediate response would be civil disobedience to wacky laws, such as Connecticut's "you must register your large capacity magazine" law which most owners simply didn't comply with and dared the state to come and arrest them all. Molon labe and all that.

Not surprisingly, the state hasn't been enforcing that law very much.

Are you suggesting that not a single Trump supporter who loves the Second Amendment and was watching his speech where all just as stable as rocks and not one person would even consider doing what he suggested?

It isn't clear what he suggested. You're reading your fears into what Trump said. Should he have been clearer? why, yes, yes he should have been.

Are you suggesting I fit this category?

No, you're not. The same people that accused Sarah Palin of instigating Gabby Gifford's shooting, and were aghast at what Trump said had absolutely nothing, nada, zilch to say about #BLM's "we want dead cops".

The implication -- I need to go read the report -- is that backup systems are ineffective because IT system designers don't consider what they call "particular risk", e.g., having a backup computer doesn't do any good if it's in the same room as the primary, and a tornado hits the building.

Yes, having different physical locations is a help.

But part of the problem in my estimation is that such systems are put into place and then can not be tested to see if they actually fail over gracefully. Any test system will not be able to duplicate the production environment and be of less use than one would hope.

Edge conditions are particularly difficult - that is were the unknown unknowns live and you can't find those until the system fails and they bite you. The known unknowns can be thought experimented, and mitigated to some degree.

Other things: testing and replacing UPS batteries, testing and maintaining your standby generators, making sure your infrastructure design was a) correct and b) actually implemented by the contractor(s) as designed.

Those are hard things not because they're hard, but because they're boring, except design which might be both. They require time and effort, and get in the way of fun projects. And money. Some mid-level bean counter might ask "can we stretch the (whatever) schedule X more months?"

Makes the bottom line look good until there's an "whoops" moment. Any savings? wiped out. But hey, the bean counter got xer quarterly bonus!

Corrupt Hillary is corrupt.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/09/exclusive-hillary-aide-cheryl-mills-okd-oil-deal-that-put-500k-in-bills-pocket/#ixzz4GxD0fTBa

Hey, it's the politics of personal enrichment.

Unexpectedly!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-10/inconvenient-jobs-revisions-obama

Obviously, Trump is the most misunderstood person on the face of the earth.

He didn't mean to suggest Megyn Kelly was PMSing, and if you think otherwise, you're a pervert.

He didn't mock Serge Kovaleski's arthrogryposis.

He never suggested that patrons at a bar should be armed.

He never suggested someone should shoot Hillary.

Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. And yes, he did.

He is quite literally the anti Obama. Like Obama when he first ran for office Trump never actually says anything meaningful or directly on point. Like people who liked Obama when he first ran for office people who like Trump PROJECT what they think into what they think he "really means" when he says something vauge and innocuous.

People are morons, thats how Obama was elected, that how Clinton and Trump got the nominations

Darth, you would have liked the electrical system of a NASA facility that I once worked in. It had:

1. Two redundant utility feeds, fed from different parts of the area transmission grid, with an automatic transfer switch.

2. A huge full-time UPS that powered most of the building. Two rooms full of batteries, with switching so that if a fire or something happened in one battery room, the UPS could continue to operate with the remaining batteries in the other room.

3. A generator, capable of powering the entire building, with an automatic transfer switch separate from the utility-feed switch.

4. Provisions to bring in a chiller on a trailer and connect it to the building chilled-water loop if the building's chiller failed.

5. An emergency bus that was connected directly to the generator and bypassed everything else. If all else failed, we could start the generator and then go through the computer rooms throwing switches, which would put all of the computer circuits on the emergency bus.

When I first got a job at a network production lot in Hollywood (plus sat distribution), I remember being surprised that they relied on shore power. They had tremendous faith in their switchovers and generators, but it was still Big Money... City juice day in and day out, including Oscars and the Super Bowl.

Your comment called to mind this old article via Den Beste.

I particularly like the bit about that fifth computer running a different brand of code.

To Kevin - further down on Reddit:

[–]PoeticMilk (presumably female) 13 days ago

"First week as a freshman in college, I was hanging out with new friends in our dorm's lounge area. This guy comes up to me with a guitar and says 'Hey! I wrote this song for you!' And he started strumming. The other girls with me were in awe but I knew it was 'Love Her Madly' by The Doors. When he finished, he noticed I wasn't impressed. 'You didn't like it?' he asked sadly. I replied 'Sure did, especially when The Doors performed it.' He glared at me and slunk away. And the girls were pissy for me calling him out. Whatever, I know my music."

(I take it he didn't really like her; he just wanted to impress someone. He had a hell of a nerve to GLARE at her...but the girls were weird to react that way too.)