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It’s a tragic status that’s getting noticed more & more…
forget the kids in critical from multiple GSWs, please donate so President Galaxybrain can sit on Pence's shoulders and wave at the army men https://t.co/PQ7HF8AUOy
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 19, 2018
The Pentagon is considering soliciting donations to fund the President’s requested military parade, which could cost between $3 million and $50 million, according to preliminary estimates from a defense official who spoke with CNN.
Because there is currently no money set aside for a parade in the military budget, the Pentagon would likely use those private donations to offset the cost of the non-military components of the event, according to CNN. Budget director Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday that he estimates the parade could cost between $10 million to $30 million.
Defense officials are also concerned about the lack of available troops to attend a parade, CNN reported. A large-scale parade would require weeks of planning and the transportation of equipment, like tanks, to Washington, D.C. days ahead of time in order to prepare, according to the official who spoke with CNN…
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Hey, remember how offended the Trumplodytes were when the South Korean government was nice to Kim Jong-un’s sister?…
South Korea's biggest newspaper on preparations for Ivanka's arrival: "Trump runs the White House like a private fiefdom," and Ivanka "is to all intents and purposes the first lady of the U.S. rather than Trump's reluctant wife Melania." https://t.co/ZtmrgHjvig pic.twitter.com/tWCxY2VasD
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) February 19, 2018
The government is preparing a VIP welcome for U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who comes to Korea for the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Feb. 25. The government apparently wants to soften her up so Trump agrees to a mooted visit to Pyongyang by President Moon Jae-in…
Trump runs the White House like a private fiefdom and has levered both Ivanka and her husband Jarred Kushner into ill-defined foreign-policy roles.
Technically, Seoul has no diplomatic obligation to roll out the red carpet for the child of a U.S. leader, and even the head of a U.S. presidential delegation does not receive the treatment given to a head of state…
Moon himself seems minded to greet her cap-in-hand. A Cheong Wa Dae official said, “Ivanka enjoys sports and especially skiing, so we are discussing having the president travel to Pyeongchang with her to watch a skiing competition.”
Ivanka Trump is the mother of two sons and a daughter, whom the government wants to lavish with presents.
The government has to calibrate the red-carpet treatment so it meets at least the welcome given to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister Yo-jong, who visited the opening ceremony. The first daughter has repeatedly been treated as a virtual head of state during visits to other countries, not least to Germany, where she shared a stage with Chancellor Angela Merkel…
The policymaking process: @jdawsey1 and @PhilipRucker report Trump has been asking Mar-a-Lago members whether he should champion gun control measures, saying he’s been watching the Douglas students on TV. https://t.co/nVgj7dxcao pic.twitter.com/kyqMa8R2CK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 19, 2018
For some reason this has gotten under my skin today. There is a private club in America that only the rich can join where as a member you are given special access to the president, pictures with the president, the president takes your advice & counsel & HE GETS PAID FOR IT.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) February 19, 2018
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BREAKING…
Because we live in a Simulation, of course it comes down to 666 5th Ave https://t.co/bv77YwuhRz
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 19, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in Jared Kushner has expanded beyond his contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential transition, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
This is the first indication that Mueller is exploring Kushner’s discussions with potential non-Russian foreign investors, including in China…
It’s not clear what’s behind Mueller’s specific interest in the financing discussions. Mueller’s team has not contacted Kushner Companies for information or requested interviews with its executives, according to a person familiar with the matter.
During the presidential transition, Kushner was a lead contact for foreign governments, speaking to “over fifty contacts with people from over fifteen countries,” according to a statement he gave to congressional investigators…
efgoldman
Where’s Yarrow?
Jerzy Russian
Keeping up with this blog is exhausting. I don’t know how employed people manage to do it.
WereBear
You can’t make this stuff up.
cmorenc
Kushner’s $1.8 B debt on 666 5th Avenue is a looming trapdoor that will spring open underneath him when repayment comes due in about a year, unless…he can secure refinancing. Which is going to be very hard to do from investors seeking any sort of normal ROI, since the amount Kushner bought the building (and financed it) for is so grossly in excess of fair market value. I read somewhere (unfortunately don’t have the link handy) that the break-even point for that property would require selling/leasing/renting the property @100% occupancy for something ln the neighborhood of $9000 per square foot. At that rate, even a 1000 ft studio apartment would need to sell for $9 million dollars (!)
No wonder Mueller is keenly interested in how/when/where Kushner could possibly seek and find any interested investors to bail him out on this white elephant.
efgoldman
@Jerzy Russian:
For some reason, my former employer blocked Balloon Juice, but allowed other blogs and media through
Viva BrisVegas
If Trump wants a parade, why doesn’t he just go on a state visit to North Korea? Kim Jong Un puts on dandy parades.
Corner Stone
@Jerzy Russian: People who comment here have jobs? I thought this was an ersatz holding area between retirement and death.
Major Major Major Major
Open thread shameless plug!
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West of the Rockies (been a while)
@cmorenc:
For someone with an elite education (which doesn’t necessarily mean he’s bright), Kushner sure made a shit deal on that albatross of a building. Sad.
Corner Stone
@cmorenc: It almost seems like a huge money laundering exercise…
Baud
@efgoldman:
Google says Jan 24 was his last post.
https://balloon-juice.com/2018/01/24/russiagate-open-thread-the-fbi-secret-society-revealed/
Corner Stone
And yet, Ivanka has exactly zero professional or policy accomplishments in her life. Hmmm…
No Drought No More
If South Korea has a sense of humor, they’ll offer Ivanka asylum. And if Ivanka is wise, she accept on the spot.
Is orange still the new black?
mai naem mobile
Kushner is a fucking moron. The Kushners were not like Donnie Dumdum. They had some real money. This moron made a worse deal than the Time Warner AOL deal. Worse than Halliburton buying the asbestos company. He fucked up so bad that he couldn’t even unload it in a good market. I cannot believe somebody involved in the deal didn’t twll him it was a bad horrible deal.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@cmorenc: this article is six months old, and I don’t know how reliable Curbed is, but…
I googled a couple weeks ago, so FWIW, but that’s more than twice the price of condos in the Dakota (home of Yoko and until not too long ago Lauren Bacall, and I think the inspiration for the building in Rosemary’s Baby)
schrodingers_cat
@No, Drought No More: No orange is the new white.
Ohio Mom
@efgoldman: How long has Yarrow been MIA?
I can’t keep up with every thread so I end up assuming everyone is commenting on the ones I’m not reading.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
The newest presidential survey is out. Besides the rehabbing of W, note too Obama’s ranking right out the gate, and that liberals’ ranking of Andrew Johnson is the least unfavorable.
jo6pac
@Corner Stone:
You Nailed it
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@Jerzy Russian:
I read on my phone as I go through the day.
Pleased to have picked up a second 24 inch HP monitor to match the first 24 inch HP monitor. Now both of my Macs have the same screen real estate: 1920×1200 pixels. I had previously used a 23 inch Acer as the second Mac’s screen, but it began to develop lines in the screen.
A portion of my tax refund covered the new HP monitor. Thanks, Obama.
MattF
I guess it’s worth noting that 666 Fifth Ave. is a phenomenally ugly building. Also, the two-level 53rd street subway station runs through 666’s lower levels, so building condos there would require some fancy acoustic insulation.
Ohio Mom
@Baud: @efgoldman: That is a long time. efg, you could ask Adam or another frontpager to contact him and tell him we miss him.
satby
@Baud: hope Yarrow is ok!
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: How mystifying.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
If you’re truly concerned, Adam has Yarrow’s email address and has checked in with him before.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
I’d like to see the newest treason survey.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Awesome. Rose twitter and #metoo are trying to trash Al Giordano on bullshit.
Even if true (which I doubt greatly), adult women in their 20s who participate in adult events have zero agency and need chaperones constantly. Further, they can’t be trusted to drink responsibly. Clearly, the answer is burkas, vice/virtue cops and Prohibition.
mai naem mobile
I vaguely remember that one of Ivanka’s FDS said her monthly income was something like $500K-$1M – most or it from her product line. If you’re really making that kind of $$$;you aren’t going to carry $50K in credit card debt.
Jay
@mai naem mobile:
Wouldn’t have mattered. It was a “vanity project” that would move Kurshner and Co up from Condo’s for Visas/Baltimore Slumlords status, to Big Time New York Developer.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: What’s the accusation?
The Dangerman
After this comment by EFG in a previous thread downstairs…
…we desperately needed a moratorium talking about squatting in the Oval Office.
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Hey, he had the best teacher! I think the guy even wrote (sort of) a book called The Art of The Deal.
Magda in Black
@Jerzy Russian:
We play catch-up while making dinner/winding down.
Or we have an occasional glorious day off, like today ?
* wipes cheeto dust on shirt
WaterGirl
@Baud: Come back, Yarrow! we are subbing in for you with Tick Tock Motherfuckers, but it’s always best coming from the original author.
Mnemosyne
I’ve become very fond of Libby, the new Overdrive app for my iPad (and other mobile devices). I can search my local library’s collection of e-books and download them directly to my device. When the loan is due, they magically vanish — no muss, no fuss. And if something was on hold, it checks out and downloads automatically when it’s my turn.
efgoldman
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
My dad graduated Harvard, and he didn’t know shit about finance or real estate.
I was a music major, but I know more than he ever did
Jay
@mai naem mobile:
The FDS is probably BS.
$500K to $1 million monthly income would require at least $10 million in retail sales a month, and low, low overhead, huge markups, no losses or returns.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
In good news, I got that job I applied for. Orientation is this Friday. I literally applied the day before I got an email for the phone interview. Funny how life works sometimes.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congrats!!!!
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Awesome.
Mnemosyne
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Congrats! Not to sound too momlike, but you’re not dropping out of school, are you, young man? ?
WaterGirl
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: What is Rose twitter? I couldn’t tell exactly what your point was – imagine some sarcasm in there but I have no context for what you were posting. Can you help me out with that?
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Is Libby a replacement for Overdrive or a competing app?
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congratulations!
Magda in Black
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Congratulations ☺️
WereBear
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: yay!
Baud
@WaterGirl: Rose Twitter are the Democratic Socialists on Twitter. They have a rose in their handle and generally hate Dems from the left.
Ohio Mom
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Yay!!
efgoldman
@Ohio Mom:
I have something in the back corner of what’s left of my brain about a health issue for him or someone in his family. Can’t find where I put it down or filed it
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Way to go!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: also…
Brachiator
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congratulations!
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: But look where he is now — solving Mideast peace and doing other assorted shit.
debbie
@Jerzy Russian:
You don’t even try. I try to keep a few tabs open, but when I drag my sorry self home, I can never remember why.
joel hanes
@Jerzy Russian:
I don’t know how employed people manage to do it.
We don’t.
We read and comment when we can.
I miss probably 9/10ths of the comment threads and half the front-page articles.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
It’s a new-and-improved version of the existing Overdrive app. Once you enter in your card information, you can search multiple libraries at the same time, which is quite cool.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Mnemosyne:
Are you kidding? It’s only paying 25 cents above minimum wage starting out. Even with the union and the benefits, I still plan on sticking to school. This second job will help pay my car payment (& other expenses) and help save for tuition.
Steeplejack
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Congratulations! That’s good news. Which job is this, again?
hellslittlestangel
The most powerful and well-funded military in the history of the world is seeking donations to put on a parade. Please dig deep, folks. Every little bit helps.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Thanks. Will download.
efgoldman
@Baud:
Oh. Then
Fuckem!
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Legacy always wins out over ability.
MomSense
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Wait, WTF are they saying? I guarantee you it is bullshit.
Magda in Black
@hellslittlestangel:
Shall I toss in my tax cut?
efgoldman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Hardly a secret. Was true at least back to before my dads’s time (class of 1938)
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
Nude modeling at the local JUCO.
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
How is this news to anyone?
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I’ve found it very handy, but it doesn’t seem to save highlights after the book is returned :-/
Corner Stone
Ari Melber taking it to Bernie on his show, re: Russia and 2016.
Yutsano
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: WOOT!!! Go get em tiger!
Baud
@Corner Stone: Ari has been good on that issue. Treating Bernie as of he were a normal Democrat.
Magda in Black
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Remind me again how Obama was not qualified for Harvard?
I’m sure I remember that meme/slur floating around.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Steeplejack:
It’s cashier (front end)/lot attendant plus whatever else they would need for a supermarket chain. I was also told I could be cross-trained for other departments if I wanted.
debbie
@Magda in Black:
That would be this: he only got in because of affirmative action, of course.
Brachiator
@No Drought No More:
Even more fun if North Korea offered Ivanka asylum.
Procopius
The military doesn’t need to solicit donations. After granting the budget they requested for the next two years, the goniffs came back and gave the military another $173 billion that they had not asked for. They’ve got plenty of money for their parade and for flying fresh pineapple in from the Philippines before bedtime every night.
efgoldman
Just saw an interview with a teacher who got winged (only) shielding kids at Parkland.
He said he didn’t know what to say to the kids first day back.
If it were me, that’s exactly what I’d say.
“I don’t know what to say. There are no words. I’d like to hear yours.”
There won’t be any real classwork the first days anyway.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Brachiator: You knew Charlie Kushner paid $2.5 million to get Jared into Harvard? Congratulations. I didn’t know who the Kushners were two years ago.
@Magda in Black: as we celebrate the return of Willard Romney and his blindingly shiny armor to the field, let us remember that a couple of Mittlets talked not only about Obama’s birth certificate, but his college transcripts.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Procopius:
Agreed. This seems like a big opportunity for some graft. This is real corruption, not piddly shit like the mayor raiding the city water fund for a car.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congrats
@Corner Stone: that “old news” line is Bernie’s go-to for things he doesn’t want to talk about.
ETA: Oh, christ– I’m just listening. Is this Wilmer-whiner he’s got on now as young as he sounds?
debbie
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Congratulations on the job!
Manyakitty
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Awesome news!
Mnemosyne
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
I was pretty sure that was the case, but some latent maternal instinct made me ask. ?
raven
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Cool! I meet with my new boss for the first time tomorrow. I’ve been on the job for 18 years and he’s brand new. I’m excited to see what’s what.
MisterForkbeard
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congrats! Hope you enjoy it.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: That’s rough work. I can’t stand for that long.
Try to unionize the workforce and report back. That would be interesting.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
When the story of Russia targeting Bernie and Stein voters broke a few weeks ago, Thinkprogress reported it as Russia seeking to help “candidates on the left.” Didn’t mention Sanders’ name at all. Embarrassing…. and telling.
debbie
@raven:
Good luck to you also.
raven
Ari showing Bobby Seale and Stokely Carmichael clips.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Are they basically Bernie people?
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
That’s annoying, but it makes sense.
I just sent a partially finished book to my Kindle since I think the Kindle is supposed to remember where I left off the last time I checked it out. We’ll see!
raven
@debbie: I’m playing with house money. I can retire in August if that’s what’s best but I can also work for another year from then and still bail before I’m 70. My bride is retiring at the end of may so we’ll see what happens. If I were him I’d want someone has been in the job for a long time but ya never know.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I wonder if Ari Melber, or Rachel Maddow, are aware of and/or curious about Tad Devine’s history in Ukraine… I doubt Hayes would ever bring it up. I hope he gazes at his children with as much adoration as he does for Wilmer.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Baud:
It already is unionized, thankfully. I work fast :D. Depending on the store, even part-time employees get decent benefits, like medical, dental, and vision plans, and prescription drug coverage.
Suzanne
@Jay:
Can’t help but think of the, uh, personal care product.
Yes, I’m mentally 14.
raven
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: I had a buddy that stayed in a grocery gig for 20 years because the bennies were so good. That was in Chicago so YYMV.
Gravenstone
@cmorenc: But think of the cachet! Guess what honey? I just got us that dream studio apartment at AntiChrist Acres! Yeah, only 10 mil, what a bargain!
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: While it makes sense that an application wouldn’t do that, Kindle does do it, so I find I’m mostly using Libby to manage my shelf and holds and sending the books to the Kindle app.
Baud
@WaterGirl: I think there’s significant overlap but I can’t say its 1 to 1.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Nice.
Jeffro
@Jerzy Russian: hmmm…let’s just say some of us work flexible hours, with flexible computer use policies and flexible work product requirements??
mai naem mobile
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: this job must be because of the tax cuts.I’m sure it’s going to make you vote for the GOP this November..right??
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I can’t imagine Maddow doesn’t know at some level. Less sure about Ari.
raven
@Jeffro: I’ll say.
James E. Powell
@Baud:
The only people who do that are people who hate the Democrats.
WaterGirl
@raven: Whatever he decides, I bet it will say a lot more about him than it does about you. Will he be secure enough to appreciate someone with all your experience and institutional knowledge, or will he be insecure enough that you will threaten him?
Nice for you that it will be okay either way. Hope you like him!
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I was with a guy for 4 years who never once looked at me the way he looked at my cocker spaniel, who he adored.
Mary G
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Good for you!
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Excellent!
I read that Kushner’s debt has increased since the election. The guy can’t even grift competently.
raven
@WaterGirl: My colleague and I interviewed him with our online conferencing technology so we have had some interaction. He’s highly qualified, comes from a great institution (Emory) and his teaching reviews were great. His job requires building a good deal of trust with folks all over the state, folks who we know and have worked with for years. Like I said, house money.
raven
@WaterGirl: My bride kept me because of how much I loved Raven!
debbie
@Jeffro:
The days I work from home can be very distracting. ??
MomSense
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Good for you!
Jeffro
Still trying to process the fact that columnists and reporters are continuing to ramp up on the “the president is either working for a hostile foreign power, or so dumb that he’s a danger to the country, or both” pieces.
I mean you can look at it as great news or terrifying. Or cycle between the two for hours on end until your nerves give out.
raven
@debbie: I’ve been doing it for 13 years. It added years to my life.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@mai naem mobile:
No comment ;)
Jeffro
@debbie: I actually went in to work for a few hours Saturday just to be more productive than “working” at home. It was weird. But it was a good call.
debbie
@raven:
I freelanced out of my apartment for 15 years. I still can’t get used to being in an office, and it’s been 7 years!
Quinerly
@Jerzy Russian: I took early retirement just so I could “keep up” with this here blog.?
WaterGirl
@raven: She is very wise.
Raven
@debbie: yea, I couldn’t go back
Ruckus
@Procopius:
Did the military actually get more money or did congress allot more money for military production of stuff that even the pentagon doesn’t want?
Procopius
@cmorenc: He bought at the top of the boom. Way overpriced. Terrible judgement. The best he can hope for is to sell it at way less than he paid for it, and pray that he gets enough to keep his father’s business (which he was running while his father was in prison) from going down. His father is a vicious and vindictive man.
WaterGirl
@Raven: I couldn’t go back to working every day in an office, either. I worked from him for my final 4 years at the university, plus 8 years working from home since i left there.
Kathleen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Conservative Action. Another example of how white people are persecuted…oh, wait.
Kathleen
@hellslittlestangel: Cue chorus of “In The Arms Of The Angel”.
MomSense
Dear god the bronze medal winning Russian curler is suspected of doping. For curling? Seriously?
efgoldman
@raven:
Think like a senior NCO with a new 2LT
Mike in NC
@hellslittlestangel: The Pentagon will drop everything in order to seek out the best looking white women in the armed forces. Trump will rank them on a scale of 1 to 10. After the parade he will schedule Executive Time when he can grope them.
Corner Stone
@debbie: I spent the last two years working in conference rooms because if I was in my office I would have 6 people walk in during any 15 minute span. Didn’t matter if my door was closed, if I had the deskset phone in my hand or was clearly on a video conference. Whatever they had to say, had to be said right then.
Thankfully, working across global timezones made it easier to work from home more but that chapped some asses of the people paying the bills. Which I always thought was weird. You do know it’s 2015+, right?
Ruckus
@raven:
My goal now is to retire at the end of 2019, middle of my 70th year. Not sure if I can last that long, what with all that’s going on, but my boss owns the place so I’m not getting a new one any time soon. Plus he’s a good boss, which makes it a good place to work. I think it will be nice to go out on a high note.
different-church-lady
OT: For about two weeks now it has really been grinding my gears how we let techno-utopists push this idea that social media was important and significant for so many years. These things were never anything but toys, but those toys that took over our minds. Individuals decided that Facebook would be their only portal to the larger world. News organizations decided Twitter was the future and let “trending” drive their judgement of what was newsworthy, based on a misguided sense of the value of “engagement”. And assholes figured out how to leverage it, whether it be within those companies or outside.
It was all supposed to be so good and fun and wonderful and it would liberate us — that was the bill of goods we bought, hook line and sinker. Instead it just made us more trivial, more vulgar, and more vulnerable.
Roger Moore
@Magda in Black:
His family couldn’t afford a multi-million dollar donation. How much less qualified could he be?
raven
@Ruckus: Sounds like a plan!
Kay
Teachers don’t actually have the right to strike in West Virginia so this could boomerang on them, but they know teacher pay is so low in West Virginia that they can’t be replaced, so it’s not that risky.
The key is ALL. They stick together or hang separately :)
raven
@efgoldman: Sort of but, while he’s new in this job, he’s no FNG.
Shana
@Mnemosyne: Hey moms are gonna mom. I told the campaign staffer – age 28 – who’s living in our basement guest room to text me if she’s not going to be home any night. I just don’t want to wake up without her here and worry.
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: some of us tried to warn you.
danielx
@debbie:
By comparison with dealing with corporate dogshit on a daily basis, it rules.
efgoldman
@MomSense:
Is caffeine considered doping? Because I dunno what else would help
MomSense
@Ruckus:
Sending good thoughts your way. Hope you get the best possible news.
Lapassionara
OMG, Tweety has a student on, and the eye rolls the student gives him when Tweety interrupts him are amazing!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Since it’s an open thread…I ordered a Gear 360 camera last week on ebay, it arrived today. It seems to be a whole lot better than my LG 360 camera(better stitching), I’m going to give it a try at the fancy pants mall tonight.
Ruckus
@raven:
As does yours actually.
I thought my last job was going to be my last. But that ship sailed, OK that’s wrong, that ship was a top fuel boat on a perfect run. In the wrong direction.
Aleta
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Good for you. They know a good applicant when they see one, and they picked you out of the pile.
H.E.Wolf
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Hooray!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Then he should probably watch out for Steve in the ATL.
Mnemosyne
@Shana:
I’m not a mom, just an aunt. But that instinct sometimes kicks in anyway. ?
Aleta
@raven: You’ll probably needed to train him. Not kidding.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Well, of course. It’s Harvard.
e to the u, du/dx, baby!
Corner Stone
@Lapassionara: I had to mute it. It seems about half of these young people are ready to articulate their thoughts and half are just not.
Corner Stone
@?BillinGlendaleCA: If there’s a union to be busted…
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
I personally was never that social to begin with. Stuff like FB, Twitter is just too mind-numbing and requires a lot of effort. It’s boring.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: I love XKCD but that clip doesn’t really help much of anyone.
Lapassionara
@Corner Stone: I just changed the channel. I am hoping that MSNBC knows that I changed the channel and will do something about this hour of their programming someday.
debbie
@Corner Stone:
“Coming back in” has been a real experience. It’s open seating, meaning the room is the size of a football field. They “swirl” us constantly; I am at my 13th desk. Sometimes I have high walls, sometimes not. So many distractions I don’t know how I get stuff done some days. I have a laptop, some days for resiliency, other days to beat me over the head with.
Having worked elsewhere prior to freelancing, I know it doesn’t have to be this way. I just don’t understand why the culture is what it is.
Ruckus
@MomSense:
Thank you!
Right now I’d settle for positive news that the medication that I might get might work.
On the boss/work front, I have no worries. As long as I can continue to produce reasonably. This requires a reorg of my brain though. I’ve been so many decades making almost all the decisions around me and while the self confidence is there the overall mental capacity is not. I have to make adjustments, just like walking. I have to basically watch my feet or I trip or start to fall over stuff that never bothered me before. Fun times.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congrats.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
As the old saying goes: you can always tell a Harvard man; you just can’t tell him very much.
debbie
@Lapassionara:
God, I love kids so much!
cain
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Awesome! Really happy for you!
Jerzy Russian
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
OK, so that is one person around here with a job.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@MomSense:
He’s mean to girls.
MomSense
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
He’s mean to jerks.
Corner Stone
@debbie: My boss’s boss has to “hotel” his office for when he’s going to physically be there. I always wondered what would happen to a plebe who booked the fucking C-Level guy’s usual office. This whole work thing. It’s gone to shit.
Bobby Thomson
Pennsylvania Supremes released their new election map. The new 18th (with Pittsburgh) is a little wonky but otherwise they don’t look that weird. In contrast to the new Republican proposed map, which managed to gerrymander without splitting many counties (by throwing Reading and Scranton into Republican districts), it does split 13 counties, but most of those are just for a few seats. We’ll see if Republicans have any greater success challenging the finished product.
Headline – Philly suburb/collar county districts much more favorable to Democrats, and new swing district containing part of Allegheny. The Lehigh Valley (Charlie Dent country) also becomes more competitive.
Major Major Major Major
@Jerzy Russian: Sure, if you believe some anonymous commenter on the Internet.
Corner Stone
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I guess if I cared to I could find out what accusations you are commenting about.
MomSense
@Ruckus:
Can you get a referral for an occupational therapist in addition to physical therapy? My stepdad had Parkinson’s and PT helped a lot. I think the treatments are much improved now.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: Who’s going to lie about working for a grocery store?
Steve in the ATL
@Mnemosyne:
Likewise. The greatest problem is when multiple holds arrive at the same time. FML.
zhena gogolia
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Congratulations!
mai naem mobile
@Jay: Kushner overpaid by so much that he’s still hasn’t figured his way out of it. That’s more than 10 yrs later. Ivanka’s married her daddy which makes me think Jared must have daddy problems like Dolt45. I want to feel sorry for him but the whole family is so scummy I can’t.
Corner Stone
Damn. Tweety is just ripping some shit up right now.
Lapassionara
@debbie: me too
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: WTF does that mean in the American context, except for being an acolyte of the sage of Vt.
Marcopolo
Waiting for seating to open for a 7 pm showing of Black Panther. Wow! Not sure I’ve seen this many folks waiting in line to sit three days into a movie opening in my life. Don’t think the movie theater was expecting this crush either—the staff is overwhelmed.
Lapassionara
@Corner Stone: Are you watching the same program that I am watching? Or did you mean to use the sarcasm font?
Corner Stone
@Lapassionara: He took R stooge John Braebender to task. Left him gasping like a fish out of water.
Lapassionara
@Marcopolo: Good.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: The sort of person who’s trying to defame this blog with lies like “its readers have jobs.”
Lapassionara
@Corner Stone: Missed that part.
Brachiator
@Marcopolo:
Have fun. If you’ve been following other Marvel films, remember that there’s a little something to see for those who stay past the final credits.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: Hmmmm. Good counter.
germy
Major Major Major Major
@schrodingers_cat: The Democratic Socialists of America, whose logo contains a rose, is a formerly-obscure nonpartisan political organization that saw a huge recruitment boom starting in 2016. Around here, they seem to focus most of their energy on opposing housing construction.
ETA really glad we can use the s-word now!
Lapassionara
@Major Major Major Major: whoops. Is CS an unreliable narrator?
Major Major Major Major
@Lapassionara: For all you guys know I’m a bot.
germy
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: For all I know, I’m a bot.
Corner Stone
@Lapassionara: What are you even talking about right now?
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone:
You mean that as a compliment, right?
Corner Stone
@germy:
Sure, if they were in a Wizarding School, or boning a vampire.
different-church-lady
@germy: Well, there’s also the aspect where they’ve become the casualties on a regular basis, so why should we be surprised they’re fighting back?
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: Wouldn’t that be funny.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: What would be funny is if you two were the same bot.
Roger Moore
@germy:
And now we’ve done a remarkable job of creating a dystopian present, what with students being murdered in schools and a corrupt oligarch as “president”.
Lapassionara
@Corner Stone: Evidently, you have misunderstood me.
Peale
So I found out today that I need to have two wisdom teeth extracted. Problem is I had four extracted 20 years ago. apparently the extra two weren’t noticed. Fml. I already did this. I took care of this. In a timely manner.
dmsilev
Adventures in AutocCorrect. I was flipping through reviews of a restaurant where my parents and I are eating tonight and found this gem:
Scanning through the menu, the closest guess I can make is pheasant served over fettuccini. In any event, ‘needed more ferret’ is now my go-to review for any restaurant.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: If I were programed for humor, sure.
different-church-lady
@Baud:
How do we know you’re not?
Corner Stone
@Lapassionara: Sure thing.
different-church-lady
@Peale: You had 34 teeth?
Baud
@different-church-lady: I don’t. I am laughing.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: Every now and then you wanna knock it up a notch with a blast from your spice weasel!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Degenerate bots!
Peale
@different-church-lady: apparently. The two extra ones are both on the same side. Upper left. But I have no benefit of additional arms or something I could use.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I don’t judge.
Roger Moore
@Peale:
I would ask to see the X-rays. It would be very odd to have any wisdom teeth left if you’ve already had 4 extracted.
Baud
@Peale: And they weren’t noticed?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Good, we keep a list.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: I’m feeling very virtuous in resisting the temptation to make a bad physics joke about spinning degenerate bots.
Peale
@Roger Moore: I did see the X-rays. Then we took a 2nd set. So now I’m going to get a third kind. We looked a the xrays from 8 years ago when I last had a full set, and there was nothing there.
dr. luba
“Defense officials are also concerned about the lack of available troops to attend a parade.”
They should do what Trump does when he needs a crowd–hire actors!
Baud
There should be a thread on Juicers with unusual body parts.
Brachiator
@Peale:
Wow. How is this possible? The original were baby wisdom teeth?? Which I didn’t think happened.
Corner Stone
@Peale: I was born without any. Maybe you got a few of mine? Balance!
Corner Stone
@Baud: You going to share pics of your vestigial tail?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: That’s very insensitive to the bots who have no body parts.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@schrodingers_cat:
You know who else called people degenerates?
Baud
@Corner Stone: You’ll just have to wait for the post.
@Major Major Major Major: It’ll be like a Juicer captcha.
frosty
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Congratulations on the job! That should reduce some uncertainty and stress in your life. Based om your posts, I think you’ll do great.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Major Major Major Major:
Isn’t that all of them?
Baud
@Corner Stone: A newborn with teeth would be frightening.
Corner Stone
@Baud: Wah wah whuuuuuuhh.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: For now.
schrodingers_cat
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:Who? BTW It was a math/physics joke.
Corner Stone
As a society, can we please come together and agree to ban all shirts with these shoulder scooplets cut out? Please?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: No, such a thing should never be.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Or not. Not is also an option.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: Agreed, most look ugly as fuck, also can we ban asymmetrical hemlines. Just no, girlfriend.
Mary G
I got a new computer. What’s a good program to overwrite the files on the old hard drive so nobody can see them?
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
They’re only degenerate if their spin is in the same direction.
schrodingers_cat
@Mary G: Reformat the hard drive?
Lapassionara
@Corner Stone: I’m in with that. Sorry about misunderstanding you up above. I am new here and need a vocabulary lesson.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat:
They said there’d be no math.
Gin & Tonic
So I went skiing yesterday, first time since the unfortunate event of last March. Worked out OK, since my daughter and SIL went with me, and the chaperoning made my wife feel better. No residual physical effects, but I definitely felt more apprehensive. Don’t know if that will go away over time. Conditions weren’t so hot, so that didn’t help – mix of heavy natural and machine-made snow over a layer of mostly ice (there have been a *lot* of temperature fluctuations here over the last 3-4 weeks. Haven’t spent much time in the gym prepping, like I usually do, so some soreness this morning. But it was good to get out and do it, as there were times last year when I was thinking this might never happen.
germy
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court issued a new, redrawn map of the state’s Congressional districts on Monday, and it looks very good for Democrats.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/new-pennsylvania-congressional-map-is-a-big-win-for-dems.html
Major Major Major Major
Newsweek: How an Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Won’t work if Mary G really, really wants to get rid of the files.
Gin & Tonic
@Mary G: We use this.
Roger Moore
@Mary G:
If you really want to be sure, smash the platter of the old hard drive with a hammer. Melting it with thermite would also work.
Ohio Mom
@Peale: Have these extra two wisdom teeth started bothering you after all these years?
I once had a peridontist who told me I needed gum surgery ASAP. I said I would be seeking a second opinion, and all of a sudden, he stopped talking about surgery. I knew I was moving within the year, and his hygienist did a good job, else I would have looked for a new dentist.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: Can’t remember where I saw it, but I did see something a few hours ago that said there were major problems with that article.
geg6
@Corner Stone:
Don’t read much dystopian teen lit, I’m guessing. You can’t if you consider either of those series YA dystopian.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@different-church-lady: Newsweek seems to have become a sort of political version of the Enquirer these days
The Lodger
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: Excellent news!
cain
@Brachiator:
Still watching! Sorry that’s a joke.. you have to watch the film to understand it. :-) And yes, there are actually two end scenes, so after the first one there is another one.
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: It’s certainly hyperbolic, maybe I should have mentioned to ignore those parts.
@Ohio Mom: Funny how that seems to happen periodontists every time they recommend a five thousand dollar surgery and you mention a second opinion.
Corner Stone
@geg6: I have to admit. I do not.
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
Thirded. They are never flattering. On anyone. Totally fugly.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
The entire underlying theme of the Hunger Games books is that adults are literally sacrificing their kids, and only the kids can stop it from continuing.
So, yeah, not a surprise that some of these kids are seeing themselves as Katniss Everdeens trying to take down the adults who manipulate them.
cain
\@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yeah, you have to actually write 1s and 0s into the drive otherwise people can still extract it. The only real way is to ground the platter into dust. :)
WaterGirl
Wow, if any front-pager was reading the thread, I bet we would have a new thread pronto!
Jeffro
More of this in the mainstream media, please – getting to the root of a problem that’s even bigger than Orange Crash: Don’t Blame ‘Washington’, Blame the GOP
this, This, THIS!
Verily, if Americans voted in higher %s and voted according to where they actually stand on issues, the Dems would own the middle 70% of the electorate’s voters. Here’s a good example:
Unfortunately, it’s going to take a lot of work fighting “both-sides-erism”
Major Major Major Major
@geg6: I also wouldn’t really consider Bella to be an empowered woman, given that her reward for having sex is a screwed-up fetus that basically kills her during birth, forcing the father to… the less said the better.
(Known only from plot summaries)
Bill Arnold
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schrodingers_cat
@geg6: Another look I hate is lacy tights with shorts. Its not flattering and it looks like you are confused about what season it actually is.
geg6
@Corner Stone:
Think “Hunger Games” or “Divergent.” There are more, basically copycats. These are the two most famous and both feature teenage girls as kickass protagonists.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: @Mary G: Just reformatting the hard drive isn’t enough – info can still be recovered.
Sorry Mary G, I have been out of the game too long to know the current programs for overwriting 10x or whatever. Maybe ask raven?
Corner Stone
@Jeffro:
It has been quite saddening to see these motivated young people fall back on this trope.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: Magnets and hammers!
Roger Moore
@cain:
Heating it above the Curie temperature of the magnetic coating should work, too.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Just shoot me now.
geg6
@Major Major Major Major:
Yes, I despise that series and refuse to read it. Knowing it was written by a Mormon, it can’t help but to hate on women.
debbie
@Peale:
My nephew had to have five wisdom teeth removed.
Ohio Mom
@WaterGirl: Somebody heard you.
I sometimes wonder what it’s like to be a front pager — are you always checking on the blog like when you’re cooking and picking up the pot lid to see how things are coming along? Or are you setting your phone’s alarm to remind you it’s time to look in?
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
Terrific news! Congratulations, Goku!
Major Major Major Major
@Ohio Mom: well we know that Cole doesn’t even read it, he spends all his time on Twitter.
WaterGIrl
@Ohio Mom: I am guessing not, but Adam is on the next thread, you could ask him.
efgoldman
@Kay:
Which is the whole point of unions, isn’t it?
PaulWartenberg
WTF? YOU GET TRILLIONS IN DOLLARS, PENATGON. Just drop the purchase of an F-35 that won’t fly and that should well cover it.
Doug R
@Jerzy Russian:
Retire early like me.
WaterGIrl
@PaulWartenberg: But they don’t want the parade! This is supposed to be a democracy not a third world dictatorship.
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: You keep out of this! He doesn’t have to shoot you now!
lumpkin
Prolly too late for this but here it is anyway.
WaterGIrl
@lumpkin: link not good.
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
No, formating just does the indexes the data is still there for anyone with a techy disk tool.. You need what they call a DOD-level wipe program that overwrites every byte with random characters, multiple times.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
As far as I can tell, their purpose is to prevent companies from succeeding!
Actually, that’s only one union that I deal with. Most are about protecting jobs, and they suck at it. They also suck at negotiating wages, benefits, and working conditions, which do not meaningfully differ from the non-bargained workforce.
Don’t tell my boss I said this, but this country desperately needs unions to get their shit together and fight for workers. They aren’t doing that now; they are clinging to past gains and accomplishing very little.
Doug R
@MomSense:
Good thing they don’t check for beer and cigs, or no one would clear.
Steve in the ATL
@Doug R: or TimBits!
Major Major Major Major
@J R in WV: I hear that Hillary used bleach.
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
Pronoun trouble.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: Unions fight for workers but it’s a rear guard action.
NotMax
@Mary G
Are you going to be getting rid of the old hard drive?
Have access to an electric drill?
You can figure out the rest.
(Not snark, that’s what friends who make their living from computer repair and similar stuff do before tossing them in the e-cycling pile.)
WaterGIrl
@MomSense: I have no idea whether this is true or not, but I read that this guy said one of the other people from his country who didn’t get to compete had spiked his drink and that’s why he tested positive. Could be bullshit, certainly, but I have no way of knowing.
Rp
Should someone check in on Greenwald? He’s been tweeting like a motherf*cker all weekend on Russia. I don’t think he’s well.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: I almost used that very term
Corner Stone
The job of a publicly traded (company) CEO is to destroy jobs. That is their mandate. Unfettered, short term capitalism has killed the middle class of this country for 40 years now. The CEO wakes up every day wondering who will hold his piss bucket and then trying to find a way to destroy jobs or job protections so we are all fighting against all for scraps.
different-church-lady
@Rp:
I vote no.
GregB
The world must be watching this entire grand guignol with utter horror.
I hope against hope that it ends poorly for the fewest and most desrving.
J R in WV
@Roger Moore:
Ooh, thermite!!! I didn’t ever think of that! Rifle shot, pistol shot, sure, common, but thermite, wonderful idea!!!
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: eh, that’s a Bernie bro hot take. Their job is to maximize profit, with no consideration for the product quality, cost to workers, or cost to society at large. Still not good.
Origuy
@Mary G: The term of art is disk sanitization. There are several programs around that claim to do this. You might also be able to do it from the BIOS menu, which you get by holding down a certain key when you start the system. I think seven passes is currently thought to be sufficient. The NSA may think more are necessary.
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: BAM!
Points for Futurama references.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: What are the top two costs for any company? Rent and people. You kill one you can reduce the other. They don’t do R&D any more. They buy smaller companies that have patents that can harm their bottom line profit.
It’s not Bernie bullshit. That’s what they do. Look at Puzder. He wants to fire all his min wage employees. Look at Uber. Look at etc, etc etc. That is their job. Merge, purge jobs, claim efficiencies and get that golden parachute.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: I mean, I have one double jointed thumb and I can stick my shoulderblades straight out, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for here.
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
OMG, that’s funny. I like Roger’s thermite suggestion better, tho…
The sparks, they fly
data to the sky!!
ETA typo…
Corner Stone
I get so fucking sick of this capitalist excuse making bullshit.
By the way. This.Is.Sparta.
Corner Stone
Chainsaw Al, anyone? Jack Welch, anyone?
Peale
@Rp: someone’s going to look into that mansion he lives in…
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Mitt Romney?
Kay
This is good:
They’re going to paper ballots, which is fine, but they’re also protecting voter information which is probably a bigger issue.
The federal government should release the information on which state systems were penetrated. It is ludicrous that they refuse to tell the public what, specifically, happened.
Secretaries of state are having to get security clearances for briefings on what happened to their state systems in 2016. I mean, come on. People have to know this! It has been TWO YEARS. When are they going to tell us what happened?
Jack the Second
The Man in the High Castle ends with the main characters realizing they are living in an alternate history, and their lives and problems and victories weren’t real.
It’s weird to know exactly how that feels, and to have never taken drugs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jack the Second: Come on now. Never? Even prescription?
Blehmann
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Rosemary’s Baby may have been actually filmed in the Dakota. As a child, I remember bright lights coming from The Dakota and my parents discussing the filming. We lived across the street in The Majestic.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I could have went on for a while. I don’t think Steve in ATL really cares to hear it.
Mmmm .308 One of my favs.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Blehmann: never heard of it so I looked it up: Ever run into Zero Mostel in the elevator?
Steeplejack
@Mary G:
I think you probably want to wipe the hard drive rather than (securely) erase individual files. I’m more familiar with Windows than MacOS, but both leave snippets of data around in behind-the-scenes registers, buffers, etc., that you won’t get rid of by erasing individual files.
That said, I don’t think you need to physically destroy the hard drive, as per some of the joking/shrieking comments here. (At least no one said, “Nuke it from orbit—it’s the only way to be sure!”) You’d probably like to sell your old computer or perhaps donate it to someone. Assuming you have not attracted the attention of deep-state cybercommandos or internationally wanted hackers, you’re almost certainly safe to wipe your hard drive using a reputable utility program.
This article is a good tutorial: “How to Wipe a Hard Drive.” It contains very good instructions and has links to other articles, including “41 Free Data Destruction Software Programs.”
Check those out and see if they’re helpful. You can always come back later for more help and/or shrieking.
efgoldman
@Peale:
Can you afford custom-made/tailored shirts and jackets?
Matt
Random thought about the parade: it would be a terrible shame if some of the livelier Trumpkins decided all the equipment being moved to DC was “OMG TEH DEEP STATEEEEEE” making a move, and turned out with misspelled signs and openly-carried weapons.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
ETA: Should you need to securely erase individual files, check out this article: “35 Free File Shredder Software Programs.”
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
On a mac there is a one, three and seven level overwrite program built in the erase program. There used to be a 35 layer overwrite option but that was just a waste of an awful lot of time.
Seven levels is supposed to be the minimum DOD magnetic media securing level. Three is adequate for most people. Here is an overview/instruction site.
Steeplejack
@Ruckus:
Cool. Hopefully Mary G will see this. (I don’t remember what kind of computer she has.)
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
I hate both of them, but don’t put Welch and Dunlap in the same category. Dunlap was a grifter, an asshole, and a shitty manager, Welch just an asshole.
James E. Powell
@Jack the Second:
Well, I guess I don’t need to watch it now. Thanks.
Corner Stone
@SFAW: They are both the same asshole. Just one of them had a better PR org.
Tenar Arha
@Major Major Major Major: This article already being checked on snopes bc it’s getting key details wrong.
fuckwit
@Roger Moore: the hunger games are real. theyre ready to take down snow
tamiasmin
$30 million for a military parade? But just think how many first-class flights that would buy for Pruitt, Mnuchin, Zinke, and the rest of our betters.
Bobby Thomson
@Tenar Arha: even taking that article at face value, all it says is Right wing social media helped spread the Franken story. There’s nothing in the article about any of the women being wrong.
Jack the Second
@James E. Powell: I have no shame about spoiling 56 year old books; I’ll give you like 3 years for current literature, but if we stop discussing books in public at all, and how they relate to the public sphere, we’ve lost something important.
moops
Duh, a military parade can be sponsored by our Corporate Welfare military contractors. It is basically a trade show for weapons systems and an investment for companies absolutely depending on a country addicted to a bloated military budget. Glorifying gigantic military budgets and their hardware. A competent White House would have turned a profit letting companies buy sponsorship slots. Ads on the equipment, floats, commercial mentions, endless product placement, lots of high-powered assault rifles on display for the ammosexual amercians. We would all be appalled, and that would be even more icing on the cake. Seeing liberals lose their shit is a feature.
Even I could pull this off. Pump up my base and pocket some cash for the Pentagon and myself and my contractor friends. Nothing but idiots top to bottom. The same idiots that can lose money owing a casino. Too dumb to even understand how dumb they are. All that on top of being racist misogynists.
No One You Know
@hellslittlestangel: When’s their bake sale?
I’ve been waiting all my life to hear that education was funded and the Army had to hold a bake sale.
Halfway there?