…not that that makes those intentions any better:
Quote pulled from the Politico article in question (no links for liars…click through if you want it):
But if he runs for president, the national media may not be so careful to make such distinctions–between Walker and his associates, and between allegations that have stuck and those that haven’t–that Wisconsinites have grown used to.
…and they wonder why they’re perennially the lowest-rated cable news channel:
MSNBC host hopes Trayvon Martin ‘whooped the s–t out of George Zimmerman’
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said during an address at Cornell University this week that she hopes 17-year-old Trayvon Martin “whooped the s–t” out of gunman George Zimmerman during their fatal encounter in 2012.
[…]
Harris-Perry’s address, which was captured and uploaded to YouTube by the university’s conservative group, the Cornell Review, continued: “And I hope he whooped the s–t out of George Zimmerman. And it’s not disreputable because he encountered a stranger who was prepared to kill him, and you know how I know? Because he killed him.”
Neither Harris-Perry nor a spokesperson for MSNBC responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
On the bogus pseudomedical practices that 404care funds, and the licensure of their practitioners:
I once encountered a Whole Foods with a yoga studio inside it, and thought that if one could only get Chris Hayes to broadcast from there (there’s still time, Chris!) it would have constituted a turducken of lifestyle liberalism upon which there would be no improving, but losing your California acupuncturist’s license to the Sacramento taxman surely surpasses that.
Perhaps lying about 404care to get it rammed down our throats wasn’t such a great idea after all:
RomneyCare/ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber Is Having A Bad Week
First, the State of Vermont stopped paying him when it came to light he held Americans in such low regard. The state’s auditor has found some fishy items in Gruber’s billing and has asked the state’s AG to investigate the matter.
Now comes word that the new Republican Governor of Massachusetts has fired him from the state’s exchange board.
Still, I suppose it beats what happened to Hans Gruber. :-)
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
–Abraham Lincoln
Polls Indicate America May Be Doomed
Far too many people simply have no concept of the sacrifices it took to win our freedom, and what it takes to maintain it. A recent Rasmussen Report highlights that disturbing fact in a way that makes me worry that this generation will be the one that sells us all into slavery to tyranny.
Rasmussen conducted a telephone poll of 800 likely voters that asked respondents “Should the president have the right to ignore federal court rulings if they are standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country?” The results of this poll are mind blowing, and disturbing.
According to Rasmussen, 26% of those polled believe the President should have the right to ignore federal court rulings. It is not surprising that Democrats were more likely to believe this, with a full 43% saying he should be able to ignore the courts while only 35% believe otherwise. This represents a plurality of Democrats who believe the federal courts should have no ability to prevent the President from acting outside the law!
Vox isn’t having yet another lost-credibility incident? It must be a sign of the pending apocalypse:
Mark Hemingway on Twitter: “When you’ve lost Vox… http://t.co/SaiV5s5xVO”
It must be the Secret Service. How else to explain how Joe “Plugs” Biden hasn’t been decked multiple times already by the men whose wives and daughters he’s assaulted, other than that the Secret Service would jump in to save his pervy ass?
Top Democrat 2016 contenders are poor generals in the ‘war on women’
Now that the opening shots have been fired in the “war on women” 2016 narrative, a ploy used by Democrats in 2012 to paint Republicans as anti-woman, it’s time to retaliate. The current top two contenders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination – Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden – are really, really lousy figures in the pro-woman department.
Vice President Biden, who currently appears to skate away from controversy as “Creepy Uncle Joe,” has a weird habit of treating women like Richard Dawson, the former “Family Feud” host known for kissing female contestants. As my colleague Byron York pointed out on Tuesday, it’s time to ask why it’s okay for Biden to act like a 1960s corporate manager (without the extramarital affairs) but not okay for the coworker or friend to do so.
Especially given the fact that this is the same Biden who has for decades championed the Violence Against Women Act and more recently, the Obama administration’s efforts to combat campus sexual assault. In 2000, as York also noted, Biden said “There is no circumstance under which a man has a right to touch a woman without her consent other than self-defense.” This would be at odds with the inappropriate touching of women by Biden during White House events. As far as I can tell, he has not been defending himself from constant physical attacks by politicians, wives or daughters. But I guess that would be the ultimate twist.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the People. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.”
— H. L. Mencken
For a while, I was running Ubuntu Server instead of Gentoo on my home file server because I had some trouble figuring out how to get Greyhole running on it.
(Background: Greyhole is a redundant-storage subsystem that sits on top of Samba. Basically, it allows you to combine multiple disks (not necessarily all the same size) into one pool of storage space. If you have files you really don’t want to lose (like your wedding photos…but you should have backups!), you can tell it to maintain copies of those files on more than one drive…think of it as selective redundancy. It’s been compared to the Drive Extender feature that used to be in Windows Home Server, but I don’t think Drive Extender provided redundant storage.)
Anyway, a desire to get my home server running Gentoo again prodded another attempt at getting Greyhole working on it. A couple of weeks or so ago, I figured it out…but it was a manual process, and since it requires a loadable module to be built within the Samba source tree, it wasn’t going to be easily maintainable.
The solution to this? Write an ebuild. The peculiarities of getting Greyhole up and running made this a bit more tricky than usual, but I’ve done it:
https://github.com/salfter/portage/tree/master/net-fs/greyhole
This is part of my Portage overlay, which has a bunch of other ebuilds I’ve found useful over the years. Installing Greyhole on Gentoo is now as simple as this:
One caveat: the Greyhole ebuild will currently only with with Samba 3.x. The build process for Samba 4.x is a little bit different, and since I don’t have a Gentoo box running Samba 4 (it’s keyworded ~arch at this time), I don’t have a way to verify that it’ll work. There are three FIXMEs that would need to be replaced to use Greyhole with Samba 4.x.)
