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December 12, 2017
At the Bike-Shadow Café...
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So if Disney buys Fox News, is that the end of political point of view diversity in Cable News? Is their plan to save the likes of ESPN to sink the lifeboats?
bikeshadow, bike shadow, bikeshadow---
I think the news portion of Fox is off the table
Happy Hanukkah! [Or Chanukah, as my sister spells it].
That still leaves Fox News a juicy target, and probably even more vulnerable. Though it would be a relief not to see them bought by Disney, who managed to ruin a money printing machine like ESPN with politics.
Back in the day, we had simple bikes - single gear, coaster brakes. The elite back then had "English" bikes - 3 speeds.
Now, we (I) have 21 speed bikes that require a tune-up every spring. At least, that's what the bike shop sez. (We didn't have bike shops back then either.)
Politics taints everything it touches
Sparrow asserts: Politics taints everything it touches
Yes, it does, sparrow. But, just like war, it is part of the human experience. [Although I'm sure Mr. Cook would beg to differ].
"Politics taints everything it touches"
It's worse than that.
It becomes everything it touches.
You may not be interested in politics,
But politics is interested in you.
I don't think Disney could buy Fox News, since they already own ABC. Maybe Obama's FCC would approve, but Trumps? Highly unlikely.
--Vance
"Politics taints everything it touches"
And it gets worse when the politician tries to touch your taint.
-jj
Amazing how ESPN managed to forget that Entertainment was the first word in their name,
And it gets worse when the politician tries to touch your taint.
T'aint nuthin'.
That map of WI looks like it's made of gears, gogs, and gaskets.
Now that's a creative use of junk.
Don't mess with Trump. SF remains a defiant sanctuary city, lets off Kate Steinle's murder with a gun charge.
And now: San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who became the city’s first Asian-American mayor when he was named to serve out the remainder of Gavin Newsom’s term in Jan. 2011, died suddenly early Tuesday morning, city officials said.
Quaestor,
Methinks sprockets..pretty cool.
A gem (No Sarcasm) from Robert Cook's favorite website.
Re: Trump karma- I walk by a furniture store that sells cheeky furniture accessories like furry sheep footstools, light up globes, throw pillows with racy sayings, etc, etc. They currently have a display of these voodoo dolls that I suspect you can order customized to resemble people you know. Presently the bowl is full of dolls in blue suits with orange hair. That's gonna be some bad juju for whoever buys one of those suckers.
great image with excellent white balance; everything is clear inside and out.
always good to eat in a place with excellent lighting
and clean windows
I, too, would like to complement the Wisconsin map. Very nice touch.
Sarah Hoyt calls for an end to the madness:
Here’s the thing, all this #metooism? It presumes that there is something fundamentally wrong with males. And that it’s up to males to stop all other males from behaving badly.
I have no clue where this kind of crazy comes from, except, of course, Marxism, which thinks of individuals as widgets, defined by one characteristic. You belong to all these “collectives” and you’re supposed to keep everyone else in your collective to certain behaviors.
So, say, for instance, I’m a woman, a writer, a mother and an owner of cats. So, by the power of belonging to those collectives, I should be able to prevent all women behaving like idiots, all of them. I should be able to prevent bad writing or plagiarism. I should be able to prevent child abuse and over-indulgent mothering. And I’m the speaker for crazy cat ladies.
Put that way, it doesn’t make any sense, does it?
Who voted for Trump? A lot of men.
Who needs to change their mind about Trump for him to be removed from office? A lot of men.
Who is being told they're responsible for all bad behavior by men who abuse women? All men.
Who is being told if they don't take action to stop all men "known to be" abusers, they are endorsing abuse? All men.
And who is being told they can redeem themselves in the eyes of all women if they just collectively stand up to everyone the women point out? Again, all men.
Put that way, it makes quite a bit of sense, doesn't it?
Paging rhardin! Paging rhardin!
A month after Hillary Clinton hired Fusion GPS (April 2016) to sub-contract retired British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to write the opposition research report "the Trump Russia Dossier", Fusion GPS employee Nellie Ohr applied for a HAM radio license (May 23rd 2016); a communication tool that would allow Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele the ability to communicate outside the normal risk of communication intercepts.. -- American Thinker
This is really ingenious. HAM transmissions have no digitally readable addresses that can be searched electronically by computers, and the two could set up any code words in advance they wanted. Their communications would just be so much background noise nobody would understand, or even pay any attention to.
This is a coup attempt, basically.
Hard to picture Ann, the essence of order and neatness, sitting in all that cafe clutter.
tim in vermont said...
Paging rhardin! Paging rhardin!
A month after Hillary Clinton hired Fusion GPS (April 2016) to sub-contract retired British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to write the opposition research report "the Trump Russia Dossier", Fusion GPS employee Nellie Ohr applied for a HAM radio license (May 23rd 2016); a communication tool that would allow Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele the ability to communicate outside the normal risk of communication intercepts.. -- American Thinker
This is really ingenious. HAM transmissions have no digitally readable addresses that can be searched electronically by computers, and the two could set up any code words in advance they wanted. Their communications would just be so much background noise nobody would understand, or even pay any attention to.
OK...that is a little serious.
If Trump did that he wouldn't be impeached, he would be hunted down with dogs.
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I don’t know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, I only know of them.
Kevin observes: Who voted for Trump? A lot of men.
So did most white women.
Do any of you have any idea how many hits you get when you go to Amazon and type in "ugly Christmas sweater for women"? Thousands of them!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5172567/Spotted-Pig-restaurateur-Ken-Friedman-rape-room.html#ixzz515nVdPXy
Today's sexual assault news about "famed restaurateur Ken Friedman".
Trish Nelson said that she reached her breaking point in 2012 after going out to smoke a joint with Friedman in a car outside the restaurant, and suddenly being forced to fight him off as he started kissing her.
I'm not sure what to think about this one. It still seems inappropriate to me but when you smoke pot with the boss haven't you agreed the normal rules of the work environment don't apply?
Who voted for Trump? A lot of men.
Men who had lost faith that anyone in politics would ever care about them, or care about educating their children, and who had stopped voting. Also their wives. The same sort of people who got hope in their hearts 85 years ago when they heard FDR say that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Indeed, with only minor twiddling Donald Trump could give the same speech Franklin Roosevelt gave in 1936:
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs
We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred!
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."
Trump promised not to overthrow any dictators or start any new wars. It was plenty of reason to choose him over Hillary, who failed on both those counts.
"We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today."
Wow, Big Mike. That's practically a direct quote from Chapter One of the Communist Manifesto. All you need to complete the idea is to begin, "A specter is haunting ... "
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