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Read this. Fuckin' read it. You want someone with violent tendencies? You want "disasturbation?" You want stone-cold nihilism? Runaway has you covered. Here he is, cheering for megadeaths, wishing horrible demise upon 50 million people he dislikes ("progressives") because he thinks people with brown skin are somehow the privileged class in this country. He also seems to think I'm some kind of unreconstructed Marxist, which is...not only not right, it's not even wrong. I've bolded the especially...telling...parts of this little rant.

Alright then -

A civil war will be uglier than most liberals have ever dreamed. Maybe uglier than the war-happy conservative capitalists have dreamed, as well.

But, it might be better than allowing the progressives to have control. The so-called left is hardly any more left than the R's are, but they are strongly into authoritarianism. That left makes me look silly as hell with my claims of being an authoritarian. The REAL difference between me, and them, is the legitimacy of authority. If I recognize an authority as being legitimate, then I respect it. If I don't recognize an authority as legitimate, I fight it.

Your left wants to create it's own authority by force. There is no legitimacy to either the force, or the authority which they desire. None.

But, if the right stands by, and watches the "left" proceed, it's possible that the progressives could win. Chances are slim, but the possibility exists.

Yes, I'd rather see twenty million dead liberals lying in the streets, than to see their progressive heros taking over this country. And, I'll willingly sacrifice five million dead conservatives and independents to put a stop to the progressives.

The tree of life must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots, from time to time.

And, welcome to reality, where most important decisions by nations are settled by force. As it has been for tens of thousands of years, so it will be for tens of thousands of years into the future.

Have you ever considered the dystopias portrayed in much of science fiction? Have you never imagined one of those dystopias, in which death is preferable to living? The dystopia being offered to us by the progressives is one in which a child can be punished, and branded for life, if he so much as notices that his own skin is not the same color as that of his teacher, or one of his class mates. In this computer age, any "deviant" behaviour will be documented, put into a database, and NEVER forgotten.

Progressives promise a number of things, which I fear, and despise, with their racial inequality ranking high. "People of color" vs "white and Asian". It's already real, it has made it into headlines. Follow that to it's logical conclusion - if you're brown, or black, you get a leg up in education, employment, in everything. If you're white, or Asian, you get shit on, and you're lucky if you can ever get a job cleaning septic tanks, or collecting garbage.

The party, as well as the progressives, have forgotten Martin Luther King, who had a dream. They've abandoned his dream. Today, they don't want equality, they want vengeance.

And, I, for one, am not willing that my grandchildren should be cast into some third-rate citizen role, to make those brown or black people happy. I side with King - my great grandchildren should compete with black, white, brown, and Asian for their place in life. And, the best man/woman for the job should win the job.

Political correctness? I've fought that bullshit since I first heard of it. It was a Soviet construction - if you were in good graces with the party, then you were politically correct. Fuck PC. Seriously, just fuck PC. Progressives promise to enslave my descendants, at the expense of brown and black people. Just fuck them.

Twenty million dead progressives? Make it fifty million - it's all the same to me. A future with slavery in it looks pretty damned bleak, no matter whether it's my descendants, or yours, or whoever's. We had a war, ~150 years ago, over a number of issues, including slavery. Today, "liberals" want to go back and explore slavery. Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out.

The bunch of dumb bastards in charge of the Democrat party need to pull their heads out of their asses, BEFORE they spark that civil war. Once the first few shots are fired, there will be no mercy.

Gawwwwwwwwwd...DAMN. This is what a meltdown looks like. This is what "identity politics" actually is. The man has gone bat-boinking nuts. Okay Runaway, suit up in your Rambo gear, here's an MP3 player with the soundtracks to the entire Contra series on it, here's some MREs, now go and defend your country from those horrible brown people.

Jesus. Jetskiing. CHRIST.

I've been hearing about that clown's support of Trump. And, about the snoopy Dog putting him down for it. And, assorted other nonsense responses to the Caney guy.

Now, let's be clear here - I don't like West. He's about as dumb as two boxes of rocks, IMO. In an interview, he said "They wanted to execute Galileo for saying the sun revolves around the earth". The host attempted to correct that little mis-statement, and West says he's really not interested in the details. Yup - two boxes of rocks.

Still, the guy is kinda, sorta, at least TRYING to think for himself. He gets an "E" for effort, anyhow. He likes Trump. A black dude who rejects the Democrat mantra. Maybe he's smarter than he looks? Well - probably not, but maybe smarter than he acts? Hmmmmm . . . Anything is possible.

Still - we have a rather popular person (Don't ask ME why he's popular!) who bucks the trend, and supports the President of the United States.

And, for that, West becomes "Uncle Tom. Ass nigga".

Alright, so the snoopy guy is the only one to use those exact words. (Well, the only one I've seen quoted as using those words.) Still, half of the D oriented population in the US suddenly hates West, for his political preferences.

“The blacks weren’t always Democrats. You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan,” West said while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

“Ninety percent of news are liberal,” he also said. “Ninety percent of TV … LA, New York, writers, rappers, musicians; so it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so, one-sided.”

OK, soooo - maybe West ain't smart. Still, he demonstrates that he's smarter than at least half of America's "progressive" "leftist" "socialist" "Welfare" "communist" supposed to be "Democrats".

Oh yeah - he demonstrates a little bit of wisdom in that last quote. He does seem to recognize that rappers aren't musicians. "writers, rappers, musicians:" He clearly distinguishes between rappers and musicians - maybe I'll have to up my estimate of his intelligence to THREE boxes of rocks?

Ass nigga. Is that an ultimate insult, among black folk? Or, is that just a generic insult, like, "You suck"? Or is that to be taken in context? Like, if I were to say it, I would be shot immediately, without so much as a warning. But, if another black guy says it, it's just so much banter?

Imagine if West got a vanity plate "A55NIGGA". I might have to salute the guy for being that ballsy. Still not smart, but ballsy. There are so few ballsy people left in this country, you gotta respect that. Well, I respect defiance, anyway.

BTW - how in the FUCK do you get "Conyay" out of Kanye? It still looks like "Caney" to me. His existence helps to lower the literacy rate in this country!

“I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

If you can help me out, please post in the comments so only one person buys me one.

Last night I left my bag at a light rail station in downtown Portland. It was gone when I came back.

The only item that I lost, that I really need is an Apple Wall Wart. The connection is magnetic, it will disconnect if someone trips over the cord. However the very fine springs that push the brass pins against the brass cups in my power jack tend to fatigue and break, so no one sells used MagSafes.

• 85W Apple MagSafe 2 Power Adapter For 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

Other World Computing has then new for $54.99.

On a different page is another 85W wart for MacBook Pros. The one I need is for "Retina Display" units at the link above. The retina display has a square array of four or more physical pixel for each logical pixel. It's real nice on my eyes.

Shipping address:

Michael Crawford
650 NW Irving St
Portland, OR 97209-1272
USA

+1 (971) 386-3996
mdcrawford@gmail.com

FedEx Ground shipping is free. I'm cool with the 4-5 day delivery - there are some other MacBook Pro users here at NedSpace, enough of them that I only need to pester just one person each day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45739335/
This ^ should never have happened.

We've registered our son (despite my mis-givings) with the police as moderate to severely autistic, non-verbal, with slight cerebral palsy BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THINGS LIKE THIS to happen to him (as well as for other reasons, explained below).

The police in Canada seem to be much better trained (or more patient) than in the States, but we don't want anything going wrong for him in any encounters.
He is rarely out of our sight or hearing and we got him a Medic-Alert tag for his running shoes that can point police to his info (supposedly, they are trained to look for tags like this), but registered him with the local police to let them have INSTANT info if he ever did go missing (they won't have to wait for us to get them pictures and info: they will be able to access it from their site).
They will know his name, any nick-names he will respond (possibly) to, how he might react to them, how to get calm him down, that he will probably want to be hugged, etc.

We want him to be trouble free if found by the police (the school has let him run a couple of times but have always caught up to him eventually.... so far).

But what happened in the video above is disgusting. He sprays water at them and they taze him over and over and over and over????
WTF?

If that happened to our son, they would be seeing a VERY expensive court case and disciplinary actions and HELL FIRE RAINED DOWN ON THEM and have their asses plugged with cement if possible.

Never. ever. ever. should. have. happened.

*****
Just read the rest of the story: the down syndrome kid being asphyxiated by police and the other shit.

No charges were laid against the cops who tazed the kid in the shower?

My God.
How do these people go on in their lives.

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Thrown in here to avoid Tesla fatigue.

I've been thinking about moderation a bit, and I have a suggestion.

First, in addition to the disagree=0 moderation, I suggest a new agree=0 moderation.

Second, that these moderations do not take away from the 10 mod points each Solyentel is provided with per day.

Third, that the comments display both a green agree count and a red disagree count in the format A/D as well as the current point count and most common moderation.

Fourth, that logged in users could moderate exactly one agree or disagree per comment. Tying these to an account should keep them somewhat in check, and motivation for spoofing might be lower with a 0-point mod anyway.

Fifth (and perhaps this is obvious by this point) that the agree/disagree ratings be completely separate from the point-up/point-down moderations. They don't provide points anyway, so they don't need to be part of the actual moderation path, and moving them off would avoid having to triage which moderations were unlimited (agree/disagree) and which were limited (give/take points.) This means that a DB table could serve with just the uid, the comment number and a +1 or a -1, so it could be a relatively lightweight and code-simple implementation.

Sixth, as these are 0-point and strictly opinion, that there be no mechanism using them to hide/show comments. This falls naturally out of them not being part of the mod point count anyway, I just thought I'd be specific about it. This also reduces the code and display triage load.

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What this would do is encourage the creation of a visible consensus on comments; we could rate every comment that called for it with an agree or disagree, and that would neither damage the comment, or anyone's ability to moderate comments that really need a point up or a point down.

There have been many comments where I wished I had a quick way of saying I agree that didn't just appear as a one-line comment, which almost always feels like spamming to me.

I've spent the last two years working on this code, but it's finally ready for the public.
This is, by far, the largest project I've ever authored by myself.

I've been writing an ansible/puppet competitor, and now I'm at the point where I'm comfortable releasing it to the public. There was also a lot of question at the time on whether it *should* be open source, but I decided if I end up wanting to monetize it, I'll just release a version that has extra enterprise features and sell that, since I'm the sole copyright holder.

Most of the "core" functionality is now available.

Much more work to be done, but things are now in a good place.

Volition is already significantly easier to configure than puppet in my opinion. It has a full GUI for administration, and a CLI tool is planned.

I'll let the readme speak for the rest.

Please do play with Volition, read the source, compile and mess with it, and let me know what you think. All feedback is appreciated, as Volition is still very much a work in progress.

There was a massive ICE raid a couple of days ago on the east side of Madison, one which I apparently missed by mere moments. The Madison law enforcement were NOT notified of this, as stated by both Mayor Soglin and Police Chief Koval...though, of course, their primary concern (at least on the air) was "breakdown in communications" rather than "Jesus fuck, WHY are these people conducting damn near paramilitary raids without warning?!"

There is a way to fight illegal immigration. This is not how. Instead of enforcing the laws we have and going after the causes of the problem--this being large businesses like meatpacking plants who bring illegals in as essentially slave labor--they go after the individuals themselves. Not only is this about as useful as locking the barn door after the horse bolts, not only is it a tacit wink and nod to said virtual slavers, but it ends up being open season on these people. Because they're illegal (presumably; we do NOT know everyone targeted in these raids is!), they are not truly human in the eyes of many, and I guaran-fucking-tee you the kind of person who signs up for ICE is even less likely to see them as human beings than the average Joe or Jane on the street.

It's Happening Here.

"Oh, it's JUST the spics," people will say. "They ought not to come here illegally," they say. Well, that last one is true, but they ARE here, and how we deal with them speaks to who and what we are as a nation. There are better ways to handle this. What is being done is possibly the worst way aside from simply rounding up any suspected illegal immigrant and summarily executing him or her...and, frankly, not that far off. What is being done is, again, tacit approval to the big businesses profiting off these peoples' vulnerability in the first place.

One of the reasons I am not a fan of Franklin D. Roosevelt for any reason aside from his economic policy is because he ran internment camps. Or as they are better and more properly called, *concentration camps.* And I don't know how else to describe what ICE is doing in these so-called "detention centers." If you ask me, "detention center" is to concentration camp as "enhanced interrogation methods" is to *torture.* Call it what you want, but if it concentrates "undesireables" it's a concentration camp.

It's Happening Here.

Because people say it can't happen here, when it *is* happening here, they refuse to understand that it is. It's not in their worldview. This is why the euphemism treadmill that, among others, George Carlin called out for its dishonesty and evil is so sinisterly effective: because It Can't Happen Here, when it *does* happen here, people will latch onto anything to believe that it's not happening here.

It's Happening Here.

What's next? Where is this going? Once the infrastructure for concentration camps is in place, once warrant standards are lax and paramilitary action against citizens is legalized, once we have secret courts, once We The People "have a reason" to suspend the Constitution--whose basic clauses apply to EVERYONE, NOT just citizens!--a turnkey fascist state is in place, just waiting for the right crisis to come along, or indeed, to be manufactured.

It's Happening Here. First they came for the illegal immigrants...

Three weeks ago, I got a call from my brother. He said that Mom had fallen and that my Mom's roommate wanted to call an ambulance. I didn't think too much of it. Maybe a broken bone at worst. Anyways, the ambulance took her to the hospital. I called the Emergency department at the hospital an hour later and they said that they think she had a stroke and that I should get there ASAP.

I live close to the hospital, so I was able to get there in about 10 minutes. I was rushed in and was sat down by a doctor who explained that my Mom had a pretty severe stroke caused by a blood clot blocking the artery delivering blood to the right side of the brain (affecting the left side of her body).

The doctor was a researcher and said that he was working on some sort of medicine that (as I understand it) messes with the cell death process with the hope of keeping more of the brain alive that would otherwise have survived without the drug. It was still in trials, so it was a double-blind test and we wouldn't even know if my mom got the drug or a saline solution until some time next year.

Anyways, we (my siblings and I) decided to try it out. It was weird to be deciding something like that on behalf of my Mom. Hopefully we decided right. During all of this, my mom was in surgery to remove the clot. They were able to successfully remove it and she was moved to the acute stroke unit.

It was jarring to see my mom in that condition. She acted like she was pretty heavily sedated, although she was not. While she was able to move the left side of her body (hands and feet), she was extremely weak. She could not hold her arm up for more than a couple seconds. Her face was droopy and it was hard to understand her.

It's been three weeks now since that night. She has since been moved to a short-medium term care facility that feels like a nursing home. They take excellent care of her there and she has been recovering well. She can walk unassisted for very short distances (like 20ft) and further with a walker.

I think that she will be able to mostly recover in the coming weeks and months and should be able to go back to living alone at home.

I am noticing some changes though other than the expected weakness in the left half of her body. She seems to be laking emotion. I don't know how to describe it, but she just seems flat. I don't think she has laughed once since the stroke. She smiles, but it doesn't seem to be a genuine smile. I don't think she has cried despite the life changing event.

My siblings and I all agree though that she has gotten funnier. It's like a little bit of that filter is gone, so the makes some quite funny observations.

I am SO SO SO thankful for our Canadian health care. The doctors and nurses have all been amazing and patient. They took the time to make sure I knew what was going on despite them probably telling the same thing to my brother/sister earlier that day. The nurses have been caring and kind. The hospital stay, operation, drugs, short-term care facility, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, meals, and nursing care is all covered. The only thing we have had to pay for is parking. We are very fortunate.

So, that's why I've been kinda missing here the last few weeks.

Posting this in anticipation of a trending hashtag. See also: #KavanaughHearings.

https://twitter.com/mihow/status/1045325066857263104

A Second Front Door.

Consider this for a second.

A SECOND FRONT DOOR.

This is what sexual assault does to a person. This is heartbreaking. Deeply heartbreaking.

Get Mark Judge into one of these hearings.

Ooh, Dr. Ford used the encrypted Washington Post tip line (generates a "utm_term" in the URL, which doesn't sound so secure...). Good advertisement for the existence of that service, I think. The ratings for this event are probably high.

Ford mentions the death threats. We don't care!

That coffee break moment.

Dianne Feinstein enters into record 140 letters from friends and neighbors, and "1,000" from female physicians. Also she is actually asking the witness questions, whereas Grassley has deferred to his female proxy.

Turns out she has that #SecondFrontDoor. And her home is a place to host Google interns...?

She brings up epinephrine and norepinephrine to explain how her basic memory functions work and that she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.

She brings up her hippocampus again in a response to Senator Leahy.

Party or gathering?

Uncomfortable encounter at the Potomac Village Safeway! She said "Hi" to Mark Judge, who was arranging shopping carts.

Did she say something about reporters trying to talk to her dog?

Answer about other PTSD risk factors sounds about as evasive as it does scientific.

Mitchell is attacking Ford's fear of flying!

Ford got her polygraph within 24 hours or so of her grandma's funeral.

Booker: "speaking YOUR truth".

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Kavanaugh (BK) is pissed off.

He won't be intimidated into withdrawing from the process. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone... ever."

BK has a friend who was sexually abused! BK's voice wavered as he was talking about his mother. And a lot more as he talks about his 10-year-old daughter praying for Dr. Ford.

Choked up as he talks about his father keeping detailed calendar-diaries, a practice he adopted. BK is listing actual dates he was in D.C. on weekends. June 4, August 7, August 20-22.

"I liked beer. I still like beer."

Lol: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1045396951846539265

Brett Kavanaugh notes that the summer that the sexual assault allegedly took place, when Christine Ford says he pinned her down on a bed, he had spent a lot of time lifting weights and doing strength training.

^ Tweeter is a WaPost reporter.

Good thing there is a recess, because while BK was emphatic and pretty clear in his opening statement, he seemed a bit flustered during questioning.

Chris Garrett is "Squee"!

Durbin tries to get BK to turn his head to Don McGahn. Doesn't work. But he is getting BK flustered on the subject of an FBI investigation.

Senator Lindsey Graham mounts the defense.

BK defends his use of "Ralph Club" in his yearbook. Because he has a weak stomach. And "Renate Alumnius" has nothing to do with sex.

Dem overplaying his hand: "Do you believe Anita Hill?"