Ziggy Stardust:
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Famous Jameis Rambling On
Just wish someone woul teach athletes to conjugate verbs and that well serves as an adverb and modifies verbs as in, "We played well."
And what does Gawd have to do with a football game? Did He not love the Auburn team too?
We tried to be bigger than the game. Huh? What the hell does that mean?
Congratulations to FLorida State University, the FSU football team, and the dedicated fans.
And what does Gawd have to do with a football game? Did He not love the Auburn team too?
We tried to be bigger than the game. Huh? What the hell does that mean?
Congratulations to FLorida State University, the FSU football team, and the dedicated fans.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
A Robot may not...allow a human being to come to harm
["There's a relationship between human and robotic science exploration right now," said John Connolly, NASA's acting chief exploration scientist. "The robots we put down on Mars are our avatars right now. They are our eyes, our feet, our hands on the ground that inform us before we get there. Without these robots doing this work, it would be a very risky endeavor getting to Mars."
He added that sending humans to Mars largely depends on the information that robotic rovers and the Mars orbiters send back about the planet's geology, mineral makeup, water reserves and atmosphere.
"The robotic missions on Mars are helping us to handle these big questions," said Connolly.
During a news conference at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington today, Connolly added that Curiosity's discovery of evidence of ancient water flows as well as water in the Martian soil now is the most exciting find NASA has made yet.
"Finding water is like finding gold," said Connolly. "It's the stuff of rocket fuel. It's what astronauts will need. Finding that there are large amounts of water on Mars is the one find that's changed our way of thinking about human exploration of Mars."]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245227/NASA_robots_blaze_the_trail_for_humans_on_Mars
He added that sending humans to Mars largely depends on the information that robotic rovers and the Mars orbiters send back about the planet's geology, mineral makeup, water reserves and atmosphere.
"The robotic missions on Mars are helping us to handle these big questions," said Connolly.
During a news conference at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington today, Connolly added that Curiosity's discovery of evidence of ancient water flows as well as water in the Martian soil now is the most exciting find NASA has made yet.
"Finding water is like finding gold," said Connolly. "It's the stuff of rocket fuel. It's what astronauts will need. Finding that there are large amounts of water on Mars is the one find that's changed our way of thinking about human exploration of Mars."]
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245227/NASA_robots_blaze_the_trail_for_humans_on_Mars
Neil Young, Carnegie Hall, 6 January 2014
[....It's incredible to think that in the past five months, Young has played ridiculously loud, feedback-drenched marathon concerts with Crazy Horse all over Europe, reunited with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Bridge School Benefit and put together this gentle, nostalgic Carnegie Hall show. At age 68, his voice has lost only a bit of its range, and his guitar playing sounds just like it did the first time he played Carnegie Hall.
It's unclear if he's going to perform this show outside of Carnegie Hall and his four "Honor the Treaties" gigs in Canada later this month, but Neil Young fans should make every possible effort to see it while they can. This is the show they've been waiting to see for years and years.]
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-stuns-with-a-spellbinding-carnegie-hall-show-20140107#ixzz2plWQsusJ
"Heart of Gold"
7 Aug, '13, Oslo, Norway
It's unclear if he's going to perform this show outside of Carnegie Hall and his four "Honor the Treaties" gigs in Canada later this month, but Neil Young fans should make every possible effort to see it while they can. This is the show they've been waiting to see for years and years.]
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-stuns-with-a-spellbinding-carnegie-hall-show-20140107#ixzz2plWQsusJ
"Heart of Gold"
7 Aug, '13, Oslo, Norway
Monday, January 6, 2014
Stream Springsteen Album
[With nine days to go until its official release date, Bruce Springsteen's upcoming new album, High Hopes, is now available for streaming online. The full 12-track LP was made available by CBS starting at 7 p.m. on Sunday night as part of a promotional tie-in with the network's legal drama, The Good Wife.
Three tracks from the album, "High Hopes," "Hunter of Invisible Game" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," will feature in the show's January 12th episode, entitled "We, the Juries."]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stream-bruce-springsteens-new-album-high-hopes-20140106
Three tracks from the album, "High Hopes," "Hunter of Invisible Game" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," will feature in the show's January 12th episode, entitled "We, the Juries."]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stream-bruce-springsteens-new-album-high-hopes-20140106
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Labor Terms Defined
[....DEFINED-BENEFIT PENSION: The good kind of pension plan. This is a retirement plan in which you are guaranteed a specific amount of pay upon retirement, according to a formula 27 people understand. These are regulated and guaranteed. Because they offer workers enough security to rise above being desperate and grateful for an occasional “cake day,” bosses hate them.
DEFINED-CONTRIBUTION PENSION: This is the 401(k)-type plan, in which the boss contributes something, the workers contribute something, and then the employees are free to gamble in the stock market with their retirement just like teeny tiny Warren Buffetts. If they happen to retire in a year when their entire nest egg is swallowed in a rapacious Ponzi scheme stock bubble, that’s the magic of the market. Savor it....
....PUBLIC SECTOR: Type of government job held by actual people, rather than hacks and blowhards. Also known as “big” or “bloated” government. By sheer coincidence, these actual people tend to be women and not white. They run toward explosions to help out. They clean up junkie diarrhea on the trains at 3 a.m. My wife, who works at a county hospital, where a hobo ejaculated on her foot during a medical exam. These are the last good jobs in America and must be defended if we want a middle class....] (emphasis added)
DEFINED-CONTRIBUTION PENSION: This is the 401(k)-type plan, in which the boss contributes something, the workers contribute something, and then the employees are free to gamble in the stock market with their retirement just like teeny tiny Warren Buffetts. If they happen to retire in a year when their entire nest egg is swallowed in a rapacious Ponzi scheme stock bubble, that’s the magic of the market. Savor it....
....PUBLIC SECTOR: Type of government job held by actual people, rather than hacks and blowhards. Also known as “big” or “bloated” government. By sheer coincidence, these actual people tend to be women and not white. They run toward explosions to help out. They clean up junkie diarrhea on the trains at 3 a.m. My wife, who works at a county hospital, where a hobo ejaculated on her foot during a medical exam. These are the last good jobs in America and must be defended if we want a middle class....] (emphasis added)
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Odd Man Out
"I reminded the rabbit that I’m a fiction writer, not a bum. He asked me what the difference was. "
http://oddmanout215.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/the-ill-logic-of-the-lower-class/
http://oddmanout215.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/the-ill-logic-of-the-lower-class/
Medicaid Blues: Vanilla Pudding Reflections
OK, stuck in nursing home for physical rehabilitation and of necessity must eat the food here. Although generally edible, it does have some quirks: like the anonymous, ubiquitous yellow pudding like substance served as desert for every meal but breakfast.
Given the name "vanilla," it may not prove so since it tastes unlike the cheap vanilla ice "cream" served. But do we really want to know the flavor proper name? Even though it gets frankly nauseating to eat for dinner and supper for a whole week, we'll just leave the fact finding to others.
Then a funny thing happens. One day a lunch tray comes without any desert and the plate o' crap looks lonely without it; the heart yearns wistfully for the "vanilla" pudding. So one asks and the aid dutifully walks to the kitchen to find a desert for her charge and comes back with dry corn bread and news no deserts at all left in the kitchen.
But I find that impossible. The kitchen has to have something for dessert for supper. Just get me one of whatever. The kitchen gods become displeased, sending the aid away roughly, no pudding for you!
But we've seen this before with the cook at first restaurant and first job ever worked, at a steak house in Satellite Beach where the cook manipulated check times on behalf of his favorite waitresses to receive favors from them.
Life has taught bullies abound no matter the walk of life or profession or location. Some don't think themselves bullies but enforce petty rules with no reason. Some take pleasure in power, like some nurses who push me around. So for the first thing, you can't let yourself get mad because they want that.
Just come up with a reason to get what you want and go to the person who can do that, in this case my nurse who took a couple minutes to get me a damn pudding like I craved.
You can't let the bullies know they bother you. Don't take it personally.
So know when Republican'ts and pundits opine the US must cut entitlements, realize they have no idea this actually means cutting food budgets and staffing levels at these facilities, since companies have to make a profit in our capitalist paradise. They just want to screw iwth poor people because they can.
My Representative, Daniel Webster, gerrymandered to hell district of white Winter Garden even though he "represents" part of Orlando, wants to cut entitlements and take my pudding away.
Mr.. Webster, spend a week in a wheelchair in long term nursing care and then tell me how you'll vote.
You might learn to love "vanilla" ice cream, Dan.
Given the name "vanilla," it may not prove so since it tastes unlike the cheap vanilla ice "cream" served. But do we really want to know the flavor proper name? Even though it gets frankly nauseating to eat for dinner and supper for a whole week, we'll just leave the fact finding to others.
Then a funny thing happens. One day a lunch tray comes without any desert and the plate o' crap looks lonely without it; the heart yearns wistfully for the "vanilla" pudding. So one asks and the aid dutifully walks to the kitchen to find a desert for her charge and comes back with dry corn bread and news no deserts at all left in the kitchen.
But I find that impossible. The kitchen has to have something for dessert for supper. Just get me one of whatever. The kitchen gods become displeased, sending the aid away roughly, no pudding for you!
But we've seen this before with the cook at first restaurant and first job ever worked, at a steak house in Satellite Beach where the cook manipulated check times on behalf of his favorite waitresses to receive favors from them.
Life has taught bullies abound no matter the walk of life or profession or location. Some don't think themselves bullies but enforce petty rules with no reason. Some take pleasure in power, like some nurses who push me around. So for the first thing, you can't let yourself get mad because they want that.
Just come up with a reason to get what you want and go to the person who can do that, in this case my nurse who took a couple minutes to get me a damn pudding like I craved.
You can't let the bullies know they bother you. Don't take it personally.
So know when Republican'ts and pundits opine the US must cut entitlements, realize they have no idea this actually means cutting food budgets and staffing levels at these facilities, since companies have to make a profit in our capitalist paradise. They just want to screw iwth poor people because they can.
My Representative, Daniel Webster, gerrymandered to hell district of white Winter Garden even though he "represents" part of Orlando, wants to cut entitlements and take my pudding away.
Mr.. Webster, spend a week in a wheelchair in long term nursing care and then tell me how you'll vote.
You might learn to love "vanilla" ice cream, Dan.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Stupid Crook News: Remember Woof Means No
[Last Friday, Palm Bay police arrested 22-year-old Joshua Lee Werbicki at a Papa John’s restaurant on Minton Road where he worked, accusing him of repeatedly having sex with the dog, according to police documents. The dog is described as a “family pet” and police say Werbicki lives at the same home where the crime occurred.
Brevard County Animal Services Sgt. Michael Healy said the dog belonged to the man’s roommate, and remains in her custody. Healy said the police notified his agency, and they’re waiting for the police to finish their work on the case. Healy said his agency could potentially seek an injunction to have the pizza guy banned from owning, or living with, any type of animals in Brevard County.
Police documents show the owner of the dog told police the pet has been limping noticeably, signs of physical injury caused by the activity. Police say the dog has been showing signs of fear when approached by family members.
Police say the sexual acts were recorded by in-home surveillance cameras.]
Brevard County Animal Services Sgt. Michael Healy said the dog belonged to the man’s roommate, and remains in her custody. Healy said the police notified his agency, and they’re waiting for the police to finish their work on the case. Healy said his agency could potentially seek an injunction to have the pizza guy banned from owning, or living with, any type of animals in Brevard County.
Police documents show the owner of the dog told police the pet has been limping noticeably, signs of physical injury caused by the activity. Police say the dog has been showing signs of fear when approached by family members.
Police say the sexual acts were recorded by in-home surveillance cameras.]
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140103/NEWS01/140103008/Police-Man-had-sex-family-dog?sf21292022=1
Hapless miscreant criminal
Thought over night on whether to post this guy's pic. Almost did not want to pile on the dude, 'cause lack of all company can 'bout drive a man insane.. Nevertheless, from what I've read most serial killers start by abusing animals'
So since this scmuck might be a sssserial killer in training, thought to also post his pic.
As for his particular crime: how in the hell could he do that? If I had, I'd never feeel able to look that dog in the face again.
Seriously, I've been with some pigs before, but doggie rape just sick.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Governor Dick Scott, wasting taxpayers' money since 2011
Governor 48.9% continues his quiotic quest to further screw with poor people by appealing rulings against mandatory drug testing of FL welfare recipients. Although Dick keeps scrooging on poor folks, federal district judge Mary Scriven protected the US Constitution and ruled with common sense, holding: "there is no set of circumstances under which the warrantless, suspicionless drug testing at issue in this case could be constitutionally applied."
Judge Scriven had previously issued an injunction against this campaign slogan made legislation, even though presumably some FL legislators have law degrees and thus ought to have known this law as patently unconstitutional.
Not content to wait for a court hearing, the administration of Dick Scott using private lawyers appealed to US 11th Circuit of Appeals to vacate that stay. 3 judges of the 11th Circuit refused to vacate the stay. Dick requested a hearing from the full court yet the justices turned aside that appeal.
All that lawyering don't come cheap.
According to FL Watchdog, FL Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the state spent $90,000 in legal fees on the appeals. This strains the bounds of logic as the ACLU, just 1 of the organizations challenging the urine testing, files for reimbursement of $313,000 in fees and costs after the injunction order in 2011.
In her most recent order, Jude Scriven pointed to the study presented by the state which found dramatically lower instances of drug use than in the general population, pdf pages 5 & 26.
Just coincidentally and unethically, governor Dick's wife owns stock in Solantic, a company which can perform state mandated drug testing.
My country tis of thee, sweet land of unbridled greed.
Let the lawyers have the last words: [“This should send a message to all lawmakers that the 4th Amendment protects everyone,” stated Randall Berg of the Florida Justice Institute and co-counsel with the ACLU.
“The governor and the Legislature sent their lawyers into court to advance a very startling proposition. They argued that some Floridians, namely poor families with children who qualify for temporary public assistance, are not protected by the Constitution of the United States,” stated ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon.]
Judge Scriven had previously issued an injunction against this campaign slogan made legislation, even though presumably some FL legislators have law degrees and thus ought to have known this law as patently unconstitutional.
Not content to wait for a court hearing, the administration of Dick Scott using private lawyers appealed to US 11th Circuit of Appeals to vacate that stay. 3 judges of the 11th Circuit refused to vacate the stay. Dick requested a hearing from the full court yet the justices turned aside that appeal.
All that lawyering don't come cheap.
According to FL Watchdog, FL Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed the state spent $90,000 in legal fees on the appeals. This strains the bounds of logic as the ACLU, just 1 of the organizations challenging the urine testing, files for reimbursement of $313,000 in fees and costs after the injunction order in 2011.
In her most recent order, Jude Scriven pointed to the study presented by the state which found dramatically lower instances of drug use than in the general population, pdf pages 5 & 26.
Just coincidentally and unethically, governor Dick's wife owns stock in Solantic, a company which can perform state mandated drug testing.
My country tis of thee, sweet land of unbridled greed.
Let the lawyers have the last words: [“This should send a message to all lawmakers that the 4th Amendment protects everyone,” stated Randall Berg of the Florida Justice Institute and co-counsel with the ACLU.
“The governor and the Legislature sent their lawyers into court to advance a very startling proposition. They argued that some Floridians, namely poor families with children who qualify for temporary public assistance, are not protected by the Constitution of the United States,” stated ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon.]
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/judge-halts-enforcement-unconstitutional-law-mandating-drug-tests-temporary
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/judge-halts-enforcement-unconstitutional-law-mandating-drug-tests-temporary
http://www.aclufl.org/pdfs/2011-10-24-ACLUTanfOrder.pdf
http://watchdog.org/63121/fl-states-mandatory-drug-tests-for-welfare-face-biggest-costs-in-court/
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/judge-halts-enforcement-unconstitutional-law-mandating-drug-tests-temporary
http://www.aclufl.org/pdfs/2011-10-24-ACLUTanfOrder.pdf
http://watchdog.org/63121/fl-states-mandatory-drug-tests-for-welfare-face-biggest-costs-in-court/
One more reason to not use Windows products
[Windows' error- and crash-reporting system sends a wealth of data unencrypted and in the clear, information that eavesdropping hackers or state security agencies can use to refine and pinpoint their attacks, a researcher said today.
Not coincidentally, over the weekend the popular German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) collects Windows crash reports from its global wiretaps to sniff out details of targeted PCs, including the installed software and operating systems, down to the version numbers and whether the programs or OSes have been patched; application and operating system crashes that signal vulnerabilities that could be exploited with malware; and even the devices and peripherals that have been plugged into the computers.]
Not coincidentally, over the weekend the popular German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) collects Windows crash reports from its global wiretaps to sniff out details of targeted PCs, including the installed software and operating systems, down to the version numbers and whether the programs or OSes have been patched; application and operating system crashes that signal vulnerabilities that could be exploited with malware; and even the devices and peripherals that have been plugged into the computers.]
Rules
What doesn't kill me makes me bitter.
Stay young ennough to hope for love but wise enough not to trust it.
Deal with what you can; dissmiss what you can't.
Stay young ennough to hope for love but wise enough not to trust it.
Deal with what you can; dissmiss what you can't.
Whooping Cranes Make it to Florida
While usually a firm believer in letting Nature work things out, sometimes because of the depradations of the human race we need to give certain species a helping hand.
So we find the situation with whooping cranes, some of the most majestic creatures upon the face of the earth--whether created by God, Goddess, or evolution. In general, bag on birding like my Facebook buddy Sean Paul Kelly enjoys but nevertheless these regal birds, avian owners of the sky, make my soul sing; I don't know why.
Plus, find it a real hoot that human intervention--having these birds learn to migrate by following an ultra light plane--works for good rather than ill.
Yay humans!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanpaulkelley/6655534025/" title="Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) by Sean Paul Kelley, on Flickr">
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6655534025_671a2930aa_b.jpg
" width="800" height="503" alt="Whooping Cranes (Grus americana)">
[Whooping cranes were on the verge of extinction in the 1940s. Today, there are only about 600 birds in existence, about 445 of those in the wild. Aside from the WCEP birds, the only other migratory population of whooping cranes nests at Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, Canada and winters at Aransas NWR on the Texas Gulf Coast. A non-migratory flock of approximately 20 birds lives year-round in the central Florida Kissimmee region, and an additional 33 non-migratory cranes live in southern Louisiana.]
So we find the situation with whooping cranes, some of the most majestic creatures upon the face of the earth--whether created by God, Goddess, or evolution. In general, bag on birding like my Facebook buddy Sean Paul Kelly enjoys but nevertheless these regal birds, avian owners of the sky, make my soul sing; I don't know why.
Plus, find it a real hoot that human intervention--having these birds learn to migrate by following an ultra light plane--works for good rather than ill.
Yay humans!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanpaulkelley/6655534025/" title="Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) by Sean Paul Kelley, on Flickr">
" width="800" height="503" alt="Whooping Cranes (Grus americana)">
[Whooping cranes were on the verge of extinction in the 1940s. Today, there are only about 600 birds in existence, about 445 of those in the wild. Aside from the WCEP birds, the only other migratory population of whooping cranes nests at Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, Canada and winters at Aransas NWR on the Texas Gulf Coast. A non-migratory flock of approximately 20 birds lives year-round in the central Florida Kissimmee region, and an additional 33 non-migratory cranes live in southern Louisiana.]
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2013/12/31/266491/Endangered-Whooping-Cranes-Make-It-To.aspx
Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends - Woodstock 1969
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