- You be the judge: paranoid ranting, hoax, or WikiLeaks has been pwned by the secret services of the “free” world.
- Mark Steyn has advice for the loyal opposition. And Brendan O’Neill crows that America called bullshit on the Cult of St. Hillary.
- Bill St. Clair goes where few dare go and proclaims racism is a right.
- Gary Bourgeault at Seeking Alpha speculates that Twitter’s recent purge of alt-right accounts (at the direction of the SPLC, yet!) will spell the struggling company’s doom.
- Speaking of the rise and fall of social media, who here uses either Diaspora or WeMe? Both tout their privacy and users’ self-ownership. Anybody with experience like to speak about either of these?
- Yeah, yeah, I know Jonah Goldberg’s one of those snotty members of the elite (albeit the “right-wing” elite, not the “left-wing”) He’s still a freakin’ brilliant writer. And here he’s on a righteous tear about The Fall of House Clinton.
- Matt Walsh is pretty much on a tear, too, as he pens a letter to his three-year-old daughter to ease her “heartbreak” over the defeat of Hillary.
- Joel expressed surprise and more than a little consternation this weekend upon discovering that the sport of canine freestyle (aka dancing with your dog) even exists. I’ve known about it a long time. While the dog-human skills are amazing, the actual thing usually gets boring after a few minutes One dancing pair is pretty much like another. But at this year’s FCI World dog-dancing championships one lady and her handsome dog came up with something way different.
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“The ship’s antediluvian WiFi groaned downloading the document, like Michael Moore at Walmart trying not to stand up in his scooter as he strains to grab a family-sized tub of SpaghettiOs from a high shelf.”
Yup. The boy’s a wordsmith.
“discovering that the sport of canine freestyle (aka dancing with your dog)”
I find these videos to be amazing, that people have trained their dogs so well that they remember the entire dance routine. I couldn’t even get my dog (God rest his soul) to heel when going for walks with him! 🙂
Diaspora… I joined shortly after it was announced, and went to look at it at least once a day for months. And this was shortly after I left “facebook” as a really dumb way to attempt meaningful discussion with others.
There were few “discussions,” and most posts stood alone… I didn’t find much to interest me – to the point that I don’t even remember any particulars. Just seemed to me to be a waste of time. But more power to anyone who thinks otherwise, of course.
If I want political discussion and argument, I’ll drive down town and sit in on the “liars club” at the coffee shop. At least that can be entertaining. 🙂 And sometimes it is actually relevant to my life. The coffee is terrible, and expensive, but the roar of freely expressed ideas and opinions can really get the old blood circulating faster. Just imagine an openly armed anarchist in a room full of excited life-long traditional Republicans. Polite, friendly as all get out, but not inclined to change their minds ever.
But then, neither am I. 🙂
I’m on MeWe.
#not4sale
What do you think of it, Knitebane?
And thanks for the report on Diaspora, ML.
Just remember that my experience with Diaspora was long ago, at their beginning. They might be a terrific deal now. It would be good to hear from someone who has been there more recently.
I’d lean towards the Wikileaks post being a hoax – “exit nodes are owned by intelligence agencies” I doubt it.
While the Goldberg piece has some good one-liners, the labourious Mencken / O’Rourke / Thompson mashup style is an overwrought dog’s breakfast that just doesn’t do it for me. Well done snark is not a relentless truncheon to the face, but rather calmly preparing the moment for a shiv in the back. Like this, from the Walsh piece:
I already had this difficult conversation with my three-year-old daughter, and her response was very touching: “What’s a pwessident?”
“No, president,” I clarified. “Trump is president now.”
“Oh. What’s a Twump?”
The conversation went in circles like this for a while but by the end of it I think she had a pretty firm grasp on how our democratic process works. At least she now has a firmer grasp on the subject than all of the college students who just apparently learned about the electoral college for the first time.
Technical P.S. When I tried to post this using the same (admittedly rather geriatric) computer / browser I’ve been using ever since I started commenting here, after pressing the post comment button I got the following browser error (note, javascript was enabled):
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to http://www.clairewolfe.com.
Peer reports it experienced an internal error.
(Error code: ssl_error_internal_error_alert)
Which is rather odd since http://www.clairewolfe.com isn’t even using SSL/TLS. I have (somewhat inconvenient) access to a more current browser, but since some folks might not, you may want to look into this. It’s probably a fairly simple configuration tweak, especially since you aren’t even using SSL/TLS for site access anyway. Also, I am able to comment without problems using the same old browser on sites which are encrypted for all access.
trying2b — You’re the second person to comment on that odd error. I’ve passed the query along to He Who Fakes It Well. Might have to do with a recent update.
jc2k — While I have no idea whether that WikiLeaks post is real or fake, it’s actually a reasonable suspicion that intelligence agencies control at least some TOR exit nodes.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-tors-exit-nodes/
Testing, testing…
Nope, not seeing it. Will continue.
Would those getting the error please let me know what browser (version included) and OS their using? bear–at–bussjaeger–dot–us
Could it have anything to do with allowing or not allowing scripts on this site?
“huge misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause”
– huge wilful reinterpretation of the Commerce Clause – FTFY
The ’64 act is a tyrannical rewriting of the constitution (I know, nobody here cares). Taking what is a reservation afforded to the Federal Government to settle squabbles of tariffs and trade among the several (not United, fuck lincoln, abolish 14A) states and turning it into a positive right of the police state to dictate with whom, when, under what circumstances, and to whose benefit we may conduct a single exchange of a single item on our own private property. King George is smiling mightily.
It’s sedition and if we had any guts the feds would swinging from lampposts.
Good Article Bill.
Reposted at #Gab.ai
@ProGunFred
#10A
And the folks at Seeking Alpha aren’t sitting at the kids table eating Crayons. Twitter is done.
I had a weme account. It’s very similar to bookface (as Gab is similar to twitsure). Anyway, nobody showed up. It was linked in mutual advertisement over at David Codrea’s gun blog. I checked it out. It was very, VERY lightly trafficked. I was however quite pleased with service (if you like that sort of media). The “privacy’ they tout is only in trackers and advertisers, they will hand your data and their logfiles to the feds faster than Micr@s#ft and say so in the ‘agreement’ ula dula doolittle thingy. I was even able to kill my own account, without request, upon my exit.
Goldberg can be a bit tendentious, but he really does have a way with words. Dick Morris was Bill Clinton’s “psephological haruspex”? Not even Bill Buckley could top that.
Another mewe?
https://seen.life/