Who knew that if you stopped letting in people from countries where there’s an outbreak of a disease, the likelihood of that disease running rampant in your own country would go way down? That’d never work…oh, wait, it just did:
Senegal Just Eradicated Ebola. It Implemented Travel Bans In August.
I suppose it’s too much common sense for the pinheads in our “government” to figure that out.
Given how Tabitha used to complain about how some clothes I picked out didn’t go together, I have to wonder a bit if she may have been a tetrachromat:
Meet the Woman Who Can See 100 Times the Colors You Can
From near the end: “One woman describes seeing major clashing in clothes others believe match.”
Not an oncoming train:
Vegas prosecutors used ‘super seal’ to hide fortune seized from gamblers
Calling their conduct “constitutionally abhorrent,” a federal judge recently chided government prosecutors for working in secret to keep millions of dollars in cash and assets seized from a Las Vegas gambler and his family in a decadelong bookmaking investigation.
In his 31-page opinion, U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach cast light on the little-known court process that allowed the government to file civil forfeiture actions against Glen Cobb, his 82-year-old parents and his stepdaughter under “super seal” with no notice to anyone — not even the family it targeted.
(h/t AoSHQ)
Obama Faithful Walk Out on President’s Speech
We’ve reported several times on Democratic candidates’ unwillingness to be associated with Obama’s failed Administration, but things just got a little bit more embarrassing for the President and his supporters.
At yesterday’s GOTV rally for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown, Democrat supporters who had waited hours for the chance to see the President speak reportedly walked out once Obama began his remarks.
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There’s only one reason someone would leave a Presidential rally after snapping a picture on their phone—if they had no interest in what the President had to say.
A quote turned up in a post to comp.misc…it’s something to think about:
According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook [sic] in his dorm room:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Why anyone ever paid any attention to the mental midgets at Vox in the first place is anybody’s guess:
What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About How Laws Work.
You can go ahead and reset the “Days Since Vox Had A Lost Credibility Incident” calendar back to zero.
When has this calendar ever been non-zero?
(As a reminder of why Ezra Klein is a lightweight who shouldn’t be taken seriously, I give you this quote of his from an appearance on MSNBC after the 2010 election: “The issue of the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than 100 years ago.”)
Hypocrites:
Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage.
Seattle-based group The Freedom Socialist Party, which owns socialism.com and regularly campaigns for a $15/hour minimum wage, advertised a job on Wednesday that offers just $13 an hour.
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The advertised job’s Indeed.com description says that the wage is negotiable depending on experience, but the group has said that living wage must start at at least $15–not $13 or $14 an hour.
Hypocrites:
Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage.
Seattle-based group The Freedom Socialist Party, which owns socialism.com and regularly campaigns for a $15/hour minimum wage, advertised a job on Wednesday that offers just $13 an hour.
[…]
The advertised job’s Indeed.com description says that the wage is negotiable depending on experience, but the group has said that living wage must start at at least $15–not $13 or $14 an hour.
I bought a new router a couple of weeks ago…an open-box Asus RT-AC56U from Fry’s. They might want to consider doing a factory reset on returned routers in the future, given how this one had been set up by whoever took it home last. Nothing like having your new-to-you router tell you to GFY when you connect to it. (Before I found the altered credentials in the manual, I had already reset the router to factory defaults…took just a few seconds.)
h/t: Theo Spark