Monthly Archives: August 2017

Americans versus The people who reside in the US

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The skirmishes are growing more frequent.

The labelling continues apace.

Who would have believed the “America First” would be such a litmus test dividing line?

One side is noisy and arrogant, the other is simmering and quiet.

The shadows are receding and the masks are coming off.

The game underway now is to frame the 2018 election.  Antifa will be deployed to create chaos and memes.

Mueller will get desperate to have himself fired. He will try and indict a Trump family member in the media.

The Chinese are being begged to stop a confrontation where Trump wins.

The swamp knows they cannot handle a repeat of 2016 in 2018 at the ballot box.

The next six months will see escalation of “He is unfit for office” to … Continue reading →

Farewell, Liz edit: Remember this?

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Liz, this is BDB. Please leave and do not come back. Stop mailing, stop signing up, stop posting, etc.  stop offering “friendly advice” and stop stop stop.

I have no time for drama. I tried to respect your privacy, and that has not worked.

I wish you well, but somewhere else.

Please do not respond. This is as good as it gets, and it won’t be this good again.  (Who can place that near-quote)?

Google Achieves Peak Ludicrous, Can No Longer Be Parodied

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Goolag crop

As proof, see here. Now this memo is not real, we might say it’s ‘Fake but Accurate’, that is it faithfully reflects Google’s corporate position on life, the universe and everything* but it was not written by a Googler. How do we know this? well, there are a few tells:

First, the author’s name, Kevin Clark. Hell, might as well have a neon sign over your head proclaiming, “privileged white bread cracker scion of the hegemonic patriarchy and life time member of the Aryan Brotherhood”. No, real people of Google have monikers like Aishiwarya “wrath of Kali” Premji-Tata, and Alonzo Shaka Zulu Jr., and Mustafa … Continue reading →

NK – ?Mostly Hot Air

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I have been having a discussion with some jarhead friends of mine and the proposal has been put forth that NK is not economically capable of almost ANYTHING. Their economy is something between $15-25 Billion, which is about 1/5 the size of Alabama’s. Their annual fuel consumption is 15 billion barrels of oil.

This makes their annual GDP per capita something like $400 per person per year. Even assuming a pretty paltry pay system for the million man army they claim, ?where’s the money come from. ?Where do they get cash to buy enough centrifuges to actually make a nuclear warhead. They seemingly have uranium so they can mine it, so at least there’s a source for the raw materials.

But consider the military. The oil consumption of … Continue reading →

Fake News Manual

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I just finished reading Umberto Eco’s Numero Zero, his last book, which was published in 2015. If his name is not familiar you may remember hearing about his first novel, The Name of the Rose, which was made into a movie of the same name starring Sean Connery.

The book is a historical novel and not Eco’s best work. The point of interest here is Chapter 5, in which the narrator (a fake newspaper editor) explains to his editorial staff “… how it’s possible to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion.”

He goes on to explain that, by quoting someone else the journalist can introduce opinion into an article:

These statements, once put in quotes, become facts — in other words, it’s a … Continue reading →

I can get two months free.

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Wait, I have to pay $55 to get that free. See this is a deal because instead of getting 12 months for about $40 (old deal), I can get 14 months for $55. Sure it is more expensive but I get TWO FREE MONTHS.

The e-mail told me what a wonderful customer I was.  They even used my first name. Soon I will be invited over for lunch, right? I wonder if that lunch will be free.