Some good TV video of "protesters" dressed in black and wearing masks, smashing plate glass shop windows. This has got to be off-campus, no college campus I know of has shops with plate glass windows. The cops report NO arrests were made. Translation: The cops were egging them on.
Maybe 'cause the cops are afraid of getting in trouble if a "protester" resists arrest?
Maybe 'cause the cops are as anti Trump as the students? Does anyone believe that??
Maybe 'cause their superiors told the cops to cool it? And who might those superiors be??
Maybe the cops feared the "protesters" would kick the s**t out of them if they interfered??
Maybe something else?
Who knows?
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
President Trump picks a new Supreme
Honestly, I had never heard of this guy Gorsuch before. All I know about Judge Gorsuch comes from president Trump's fulsome introduction last night on TV and some kind words from Bill O'Reilly and Charles Krauthammer later in the evening.
Let's hope Judge Gorsuch sticks to his word, given on TV last night, to judge according to the written law, as understood by those who wrote it at the time they wrote it. The liberal notion of a "living constitution" is just propaganda advocating the courts to make up new law from the bench. It's a totally undemocratic notion. In a democracy, new law comes from the elected legislature, not appointed judges. Over the years, liberals have used the courts to pass laws that never would have passed a legislature. Some of them were disasters or disgraces. Dred Scott started the Civil War. Plessy vs Ferguson was a disgrace for a half century. Roe vs Wade touched off a culture war that lasts until this very day.
Getting Judge Gorsuch approved by the Senate looks to be real circus. I'm gonna get me some popcorn and watch the clowns.
Let's hope Judge Gorsuch sticks to his word, given on TV last night, to judge according to the written law, as understood by those who wrote it at the time they wrote it. The liberal notion of a "living constitution" is just propaganda advocating the courts to make up new law from the bench. It's a totally undemocratic notion. In a democracy, new law comes from the elected legislature, not appointed judges. Over the years, liberals have used the courts to pass laws that never would have passed a legislature. Some of them were disasters or disgraces. Dred Scott started the Civil War. Plessy vs Ferguson was a disgrace for a half century. Roe vs Wade touched off a culture war that lasts until this very day.
Getting Judge Gorsuch approved by the Senate looks to be real circus. I'm gonna get me some popcorn and watch the clowns.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Wow! Trump immigration policy makes big waves
As I get the story, Trump announced the ban on immigrants/visitors from seven African and Middle East countries Friday night. By Saturday, someone[s] had organized sizable demos at the big airports, LAX in particular. That's quick work. How did they do that? and who is they? Did "they" put the word out on social media? If so, what media? I'd join up with that media just to keep in touch with what's going on. Did "they" use a telephone tree to call all "their" members? Did "they" take out ads in the newspapers? Is it possible to get a newpaper ad out that quickly?
Or did "they" have foreknowledge, from a leak somewhere in the Trump administration, so they could have more time to get the demo's rolling?
And, are all those demonstrators going out with their signs just because they still hate Trump? Does anyone actually favor immigrants from pest holes like Somalia?
The noble MSM are missing a lot of angles to this story.
Or did "they" have foreknowledge, from a leak somewhere in the Trump administration, so they could have more time to get the demo's rolling?
And, are all those demonstrators going out with their signs just because they still hate Trump? Does anyone actually favor immigrants from pest holes like Somalia?
The noble MSM are missing a lot of angles to this story.
Monday, January 30, 2017
$2107 each for a handgun?
Seems very pricey. But that is the price the government is willing to pay for the new Sig Saur handgun that will replace the current unloved M9 Beretta. The Sig will be made in New Hampshire, a good thing as far as this NH resident is concerned. It will be chambered for 9mm Luger which is standard world wide, despite a lot of shooters feeling that anything less than .45 ain't enough for serious work.
Microsoft Update stopped working
Microsoft Update had been working happily on my aging XP desktop for some years. I have trusty desktop set to notify me of updates rather than just zap them in automatically. Now and then I run Microsoft update by hand from Internet Exploder. Today Microsoft Updates started and then choked up with an error message about how it could not access the internet. Hmm. And it popped up a network diagnostic button which I pushed figuring it wouldn't do any harm. Network Diags trundled for a while and then reported that my firewall was blocking ports 80 (http) 443 (https) and 21 (FTP).
So, hit "Settings" and then Microsoft Firewall. And punch a button marked port. And type in the three port numbers (80, 443, and 21). Firewall complained about port 80 claiming it was already present. But it accepted the other two ports. And then Microsoft update started to work.
For all this hacking, Microsoft update did not find any serious updates for me. I browsed the non serious updates and decided than none of them would do my any good.
Still wondering what happened. Did Microsoft tighten up Update so that it needed the HTTPS port? Did some passing virus turn the ports off by way of defending itself? Should I get a better firewall?
So, hit "Settings" and then Microsoft Firewall. And punch a button marked port. And type in the three port numbers (80, 443, and 21). Firewall complained about port 80 claiming it was already present. But it accepted the other two ports. And then Microsoft update started to work.
For all this hacking, Microsoft update did not find any serious updates for me. I browsed the non serious updates and decided than none of them would do my any good.
Still wondering what happened. Did Microsoft tighten up Update so that it needed the HTTPS port? Did some passing virus turn the ports off by way of defending itself? Should I get a better firewall?
Sunday, January 29, 2017
New Hampshire GOP holds its annual meeting
I'm a delegate so I went. Had to get up at 5:45 to get down to Derry by 8 AM. It was snowing lightly in the Notch. I managed to get up my driveway and out on the road just before the town plow plowed me in. I93 was a tad slippery up in the Notch but dried out nicely by the time I got to N. Woodstock.
It being the annual meeting, many of us, yours truly included, wore coat and tie. It being New Hampshire, a lot of people showed up in blue jeans and hunting shirts. Meeting was called to order at 9. The only real business to address was election of the State Chairman. Somehow this took all day, we didn't get adjourned until 2:30. Lot of people got tired and left early.
There was the usual opening exercises, Governor Sununu gave a short speech, all the reports (treasurer, bylaw committee, etc) were read. This lasted til 10, and then trouble decended. Somebody got 9 or 10 changes to the party bylaws onto the agenda. The changes were poorly written, few of us delegates could understand what the bylaw changes meant and they started out with a confusing voting system were a yes vote was actually a no vote. They gave up on that after first amendment sucked up a half an hour before getting voted down. Another couple of hours was consumed voting down the rest of 'em, all except one, which authorized paying a salary to the state chairman. That passed cause most of the delegates could see that state chairman is a full time job, and few people can do a full time job without a salary. Real people have bills to pay.
Then we got to voting in new officers, treasurer, asst treasurer, secretary, asst secretary, vice chair, area chairs, and finally, we voted in Jeane Forester as state party chairman. That got us up to a little after 2PM and then we called it a day and adjourned. I got back home just around 5PM. Stupid Beast was glad to see me.
It being the annual meeting, many of us, yours truly included, wore coat and tie. It being New Hampshire, a lot of people showed up in blue jeans and hunting shirts. Meeting was called to order at 9. The only real business to address was election of the State Chairman. Somehow this took all day, we didn't get adjourned until 2:30. Lot of people got tired and left early.
There was the usual opening exercises, Governor Sununu gave a short speech, all the reports (treasurer, bylaw committee, etc) were read. This lasted til 10, and then trouble decended. Somebody got 9 or 10 changes to the party bylaws onto the agenda. The changes were poorly written, few of us delegates could understand what the bylaw changes meant and they started out with a confusing voting system were a yes vote was actually a no vote. They gave up on that after first amendment sucked up a half an hour before getting voted down. Another couple of hours was consumed voting down the rest of 'em, all except one, which authorized paying a salary to the state chairman. That passed cause most of the delegates could see that state chairman is a full time job, and few people can do a full time job without a salary. Real people have bills to pay.
Then we got to voting in new officers, treasurer, asst treasurer, secretary, asst secretary, vice chair, area chairs, and finally, we voted in Jeane Forester as state party chairman. That got us up to a little after 2PM and then we called it a day and adjourned. I got back home just around 5PM. Stupid Beast was glad to see me.
Friday, January 27, 2017
The Legend of Tarzan 2016
This flick hit the theaters back in July 2016. Publicity work must have been pretty bad, I never heard of it until I did a search for "Tarzan" on Netflix. I'm an old Tarzan fan, got started reading my father's collection of Tarzan novels in grade school. I have seen most, perhaps all, of the Tarzan movies and TV shows going all the way back to the Johnny Weissmuller movies. This was a medium speed Tarzan movie, not great, but watchable.
The cast were names I had never heard of, but they did a reasonable job working against a faint to flaky plot and really terrible continuity situation. The movie starts up with a very British lord John Clayton in London, does flashbacks to a boy Tarzan being raised by Kala the she-ape deep in the jungle, pops back to the present (1890) flashes back to a young Tarzan whipping Kerchak hand to paw, pops forward to the same young Tarzan meeting Jane, and so it goes. The flashback scenes are cute and all, but the constant flashing back and forth is confusing, and when laid on top of a weak plot yields a confusing movie.
The soundman was only fair to poor, a lot of Jane's lines were unintelligible to me. The cameraman is still turning the lights off, yielding a pure black scene with just a hint of someone's white face floating around in the blackness. They have a lot of pretty nicely done CGI animals, lions, great apes, wild buffalo, elephants and suchlike. They have a stern wheel river steamer that looks pretty good although it is almost certainly CGI.
Tarzan is properly ripped, has a good six pack abs. He looks a little too skinny for the part, I expect Tarzan to be built like Schwarzenegger. This Tarzan doesn't really look strong enough to rassle with great apes and live to tell about it. We don't see Tarzan without his shirt until halfway thru the movie, and he never does get down to the traditional loincloth, he is wearing pants right up the the end of the flick.
Jane is nicely played, young, beautiful and tough. She spits in the bad guy's face, and later escapes from the bad guy's river steamer by diving over the side into crocodile infested waters, while still wearing the ankle length white dress she was wearing when captured. We never learn just how she avoided or dealt with the crocs. We see her climbing out of the muddy river with the white dress now stained river-mud-color. A few scenes later the dress goes back to being white, and still later back to river-mud-color.
Overall, not too bad, at least for us dyed in the wool Tarzan fans.
The cast were names I had never heard of, but they did a reasonable job working against a faint to flaky plot and really terrible continuity situation. The movie starts up with a very British lord John Clayton in London, does flashbacks to a boy Tarzan being raised by Kala the she-ape deep in the jungle, pops back to the present (1890) flashes back to a young Tarzan whipping Kerchak hand to paw, pops forward to the same young Tarzan meeting Jane, and so it goes. The flashback scenes are cute and all, but the constant flashing back and forth is confusing, and when laid on top of a weak plot yields a confusing movie.
The soundman was only fair to poor, a lot of Jane's lines were unintelligible to me. The cameraman is still turning the lights off, yielding a pure black scene with just a hint of someone's white face floating around in the blackness. They have a lot of pretty nicely done CGI animals, lions, great apes, wild buffalo, elephants and suchlike. They have a stern wheel river steamer that looks pretty good although it is almost certainly CGI.
Tarzan is properly ripped, has a good six pack abs. He looks a little too skinny for the part, I expect Tarzan to be built like Schwarzenegger. This Tarzan doesn't really look strong enough to rassle with great apes and live to tell about it. We don't see Tarzan without his shirt until halfway thru the movie, and he never does get down to the traditional loincloth, he is wearing pants right up the the end of the flick.
Jane is nicely played, young, beautiful and tough. She spits in the bad guy's face, and later escapes from the bad guy's river steamer by diving over the side into crocodile infested waters, while still wearing the ankle length white dress she was wearing when captured. We never learn just how she avoided or dealt with the crocs. We see her climbing out of the muddy river with the white dress now stained river-mud-color. A few scenes later the dress goes back to being white, and still later back to river-mud-color.
Overall, not too bad, at least for us dyed in the wool Tarzan fans.
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