tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post839540730089928213..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Giving up Freedoms to the Left - Lessons from Catalonia ReferendumDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74000693603778090632017-10-04T00:59:41.585-04:002017-10-04T00:59:41.585-04:00I'm a little distressed Bob'Vegas'Mass...I'm a little distressed Bob'Vegas'Massi didn't take a non lethal hit in the ass.<br /><br />Just a scratch, mind you, so he'd be off of TV for a while.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59843256113575741352017-10-04T00:53:59.063-04:002017-10-04T00:53:59.063-04:00We have this to celebrate -
Physicists Find We’re...We have this to celebrate -<br /><br /><b>Physicists Find We’re Not Living In A Computer Simulation</b><br /><br /><i>In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhi show that constructing a computer simulation of a particular quantum phenomenon that occurs in metals is impossible – not just practically, but in principle.<br /><br />The pair initially set out to see whether it was possible to use a technique known as quantum Monte Carlo to study the quantum Hall effect – a phenomenon in physical systems that exhibit strong magnetic fields and very low temperatures, and manifests as an energy current that runs across the temperature gradient. The phenomenon indicates an anomaly in the underlying space-time geometry.</i><br /><br />https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/10/physicists-find-not-living-computer-simulation/<br /><br />We are real.<br /><br />I think.<br /><br />Even Quirk.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42266577788628575132017-10-04T00:49:31.178-04:002017-10-04T00:49:31.178-04:00President Donald Trump says the gunman behind the ...<i>President Donald Trump says the gunman behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas was 'a very, very sick individual' but declined to call it domestic terrorism.<br /><br />'We'll be talking about gun laws as times goes by,' Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Lombardo said a search of the suspect's car turned up a supply of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser compound that can be formed into explosives and was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal office building that killed 168 people.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42548986435956514402017-10-04T00:45:42.869-04:002017-10-04T00:45:42.869-04:00The shooter's father was crazy.
It must run ...The shooter's father was crazy. <br /><br />It must run in that family.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50488936424167912492017-10-04T00:43:05.098-04:002017-10-04T00:43:05.098-04:00If I were her I think I'd stay in the Philippi...If I were her I think I'd stay in the Philippines.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50010187469384628922017-10-04T00:32:02.122-04:002017-10-04T00:32:02.122-04:00Shooter’s girlfriend arrives in US
http://fox61.c...<b>Shooter’s girlfriend arrives in US</b><br /><br />http://fox61.com/2017/10/04/official-shooters-girlfriend-arrives-in-us/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6878192983609525512017-10-04T00:00:55.158-04:002017-10-04T00:00:55.158-04:00Paddock's brother Eric said he could not under...<i>Paddock's brother Eric said he could not understand how he got to the point of shooting at the festival.<br /><br />...<br /><br />"I hope to hell they find when they do the autopsy, that there's a tumour in his head or something, because if they don’t we’re all in trouble.<br /><br />"This is a horror story in every possible way."</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84585501067799955012017-10-03T23:27:53.638-04:002017-10-03T23:27:53.638-04:00She previously was married to Arkansas resident Ge...<i>She previously was married to Arkansas resident Geary Danley, until the pair divorced in 2015.<br /><br />A person listed as her witness in the divorce records insisted Danley isn’t connected with Paddock’s behaviour.<br /><br />“She had nothing to do with this psycho,” the man, who was not identified, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “The poor lady, she is in The Philippines visiting family.”</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58367076421140976652017-10-03T21:38:38.623-04:002017-10-03T21:38:38.623-04:00SPAIN’S King Felipe VI has accused Catalan secessi...<i>SPAIN’S King Felipe VI has accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as thousands took to the streets to protest against a violent police crackdown against the banned independence referendum.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Carlos Cardello, a 57-year-old engineer, vowed that this huge swell of peaceful protest would not die down.<br /><br />“We will keep going until someone listens to us,” he said.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48475801196924665472017-10-03T20:55:21.241-04:002017-10-03T20:55:21.241-04:00Late Tuesday afternoon, the new anti-terrorism law...<i>Late Tuesday afternoon, the new anti-terrorism law passed in the lower house of the French parliament with 415 of 577 total votes. Macron's administration immediately celebrated the result.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Others were less sanguine. "Macron has officially discredited France as a country of human rights and [the] rule of law," Yasser Louati, a prominent French human rights activist, wrote in a statement.<br /><br />"Now stop lecturing other countries."</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76465365466614115722017-10-03T20:25:37.130-04:002017-10-03T20:25:37.130-04:00THE Las Vegas gunman originally planned to attack ...<i>THE Las Vegas gunman originally planned to attack a music festival headlined by Lorde and Chance the Rapper in the city a week before the deadly shooting, according to reports.<br /><br />Stephen Paddock rented several apartments overlooking the annual Life Is Beautiful Festival, a source briefed on the investigation’s progress told the Daily Beast.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Sheriff Joe Lombardo told media on Wednesday morning all but three of the 59 victims had been identified. The number of injured had dropped by about 20 due to double counting at a hospital.<br /><br />He could not specify how many were still critical or what injuries they had, but they ranged from gunshot wounds to trampling injuries. There were about 520 injured people.<br /><br />...<br /><br />He ended the media conference with a plea to the public to come forward with any information they had.<br /><br />“See something, say something. Don’t be afraid to bother us”.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90191343656272588292017-10-03T20:04:18.814-04:002017-10-03T20:04:18.814-04:00As for the great motive mystery — nope, still no l...As for the great motive mystery — nope, still no leads as I write this:<br /><br />“All of the normal indicators that we would normally see, people two or three days later say, ‘A-ha, now I understand, I know what was going on in this guy’s life,'” Van Zandt said on “TODAY.” In Paddock’s case, “we don’t know.”…<br /><br />Investigators said his residence in the desert community of Mesquite, northeast of Las Vegas, didn’t immediately turn up notes, emails or social media postings explaining his actions, but a computer from the home was found.<br />He did apparently gamble at least $160,000 in the weeks before the attack but whether that was unusual for him or whether he won more than he lost or vice versa is still unclear.<br /><br />A creepy little curio that’s emerged online today are videos taken inside Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay — not by Paddock himself, and not after the shooting. These are videos taken by guests who, by chance, stayed in Room 32-135 in the past and recorded panoramas of the room on their phones, so impressed were they by the views it afforded of the Strip. CNN has posted one on its website although I can’t find an embeddable version. The clip below also purports to be of the same room. I believe that’s the concert ground visible briefly at 1:35.<br /><br />https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/03/report-vegas-shooter-may-targeted-different-concert-september-first/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86326899057414882602017-10-03T20:04:01.148-04:002017-10-03T20:04:01.148-04:00Report: Vegas Shooter May Have Targeted A Differen...<b>Report: Vegas Shooter May Have Targeted A Different Concert In September First</b><br />ALLAHPUNDITPosted at 4:01 pm on October 3, 2017<br /><br />Some are suggesting on social media that he might have treated this as a “dry run” for the attack he eventually staged in the Mandalay Bay. I don’t know. What could he have learned from spending time in a completely different building overlooking a completely different part of the city? A proper “dry run,” I would think, would have involved renting a room days or weeks before the event you’re actually targeting and surveying the shooting angles from the windows.<br /><br />SEE ALSO: Rep. Tim Murphy urged woman he had affair with to have abortion<br /><br />If this is true, it seems more likely that Paddock was prepared to make this concert his target but then chose to back out for whatever reason.<br /><br />Motive? Vegas shooter was gambling as much as $30,000 per day recently; Update: Wired $100,000 to Philippines<br />The gunman who murdered at least 59 people at a country-music concert on Sunday might have originally targeted another Las Vegas music festival held the previous weekend, according to a senior law enforcement source.<br /><br />Stephen Paddock rented multiple condos overlooking the annual Life Is Beautiful Festival, which this year was headlined by Lorde and Chance the Rapper, said the source, who is not directly involved in the investigation but has been briefed on its progress.<br /><br />The source suggested that Paddock may have lost his nerve or simply changed his plans and checked into the Mandalay Bay Hotel on September 28.<br /><br />It’s hard to come up with an innocent explanation for why Paddock, who wasn’t known to have close friends apart from his girlfriend, would have needed multiple rooms. Chances are he wasn’t bringing the boys out to Vegas for a weekend of fun at the festival; he probably wanted multiple condos so he’d have multiple positions to fire from, just as he had at Mandalay Bay. So much as well for the theory floating around that Paddock targeted the Jason Aldean concert because he had a special grievance against country music fans, whether because they’re more likely to be right-wing or because Paddock himself was allegedly a country fan who wanted to kill like-minded people for whatever weird reason. The Life Is Beautiful Festival is geared towards pop and hip-hop fans.<br /><br />One possibly important thing to note about the festival is that it’s spread out across a neighborhood in downtown Vegas. You can see a map of this year’s event here. All in all, it encompassed 18 city blocks and featured multiple stages for music. Maybe Paddock couldn’t find rooms to rent with a good view of any of the main stages and concluded that the festival grounds were so sprawling that it’d be hard to find concentrations of people penned in anywhere as sitting ducks otherwise. Once he started firing, victims could flee the area in all directions. The Aldean concert was much more concentrated, in one city block. Particularly if Paddock suspected his aim would be erratic using “bump fire,” he’d want a tightly packed crowd to maximize casualties.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6229939062864874402017-10-03T19:53:25.875-04:002017-10-03T19:53:25.875-04:00Yesterday, I posted this:
Deuce ☂Mon Oct 02, 05...Yesterday, I posted this:<br /><br /><i><br /><br />Deuce ☂Mon Oct 02, 05:03:00 PM EDT<br />For all the assholes , taking smug satisfaction in Stephen Paddock's tribe;<br /><br />Paddock was living with Marilou Danley. Marilou Danley had been married to Geary Danley. <br /><br />Geary Danley was an Antifa supporter, a violent Trump hater, and a registered Democrat. <br /><br />This information was available on his FB page until it was closed this morning. Did they share similar political views? <br /><br />This was a Country Western event taking place, i.e white Christian conservatives and Republicans.<br /><br />Was this political?<br /><br />Paddock seems remarkably similar to the shooter, 66-year-old James T. Hodgkinson, who wanted to kill a field load of Republicans. Hodgkinson also.died from injuries sustained when he was shot by police.<br /><br />Is there a connection? <br /><br />You better reserve some of that cheap glee that you are pouring.<br /><br />ReplyDelete<br /></i><br /><br />This atrocious crime is getting curiouser and curiouser.The crowd was young, white, conservative, Christian and Republican. This shooter undoubtedly had a handler. This is no lone-wolf. The Left and Trump haters are coalescing to the same junction of making their usual political points. More to come. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67105763575845774922017-10-03T18:32:04.716-04:002017-10-03T18:32:04.716-04:00.
A wise choice.
My thoughtful brain lopes (back....<br /><br />A wise choice.<br /><br />My thoughtful brain lopes (backed up by the Magic 8-Ball by the way) say Spencer is the illegitimate daughter of Pam (aka Hellen) Geller and David Duke. He is either a nitwit or a flaming bigot who will say anything no matter how ridiculous to stir up his low intelligence minions.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37231733226328473732017-10-03T18:27:18.429-04:002017-10-03T18:27:18.429-04:00.
Robert Spencer?
I don't know he seems to p....<br /><br />Robert Spencer?<br /><br />I don't know he seems to put a lot of faith in the words of ISIS. And if it could happen to Paddock, it could happen to Spencer.<br /><br />.<br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73980253854955405722017-10-03T17:29:50.076-04:002017-10-03T17:29:50.076-04:00Ali is the greatest, not allah.Ali is the greatest, not allah.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10918372154368066762017-10-03T17:29:03.708-04:002017-10-03T17:29:03.708-04:00I don't want to be the only person without a g...I don't want to be the only person without a gun, and I'm not.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31914461268256339392017-10-03T17:15:30.831-04:002017-10-03T17:15:30.831-04:00Taught him to say
"Allah is the greatest&qu...Taught him to say <br /><br />"<b><i>Allah is the greatest</i></b>"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59619591975586161402017-10-03T17:06:34.536-04:002017-10-03T17:06:34.536-04:00.
We do know that Nichols's bombs did not wor....<br /><br /><i>We do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned."</i><br /><br /><br />Yousef to Nichols: "No. No. No. The green wire, dammit. Not the blue. How many times do I have to tell you?"<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3163966791459042212017-10-03T17:03:11.328-04:002017-10-03T17:03:11.328-04:00WRT your question:
The bear in the chair was post...WRT your question:<br /><br />The bear in the chair was posted before I knew about Las Vegas.<br /><br />People thought it was cute that he posed like a human out in the dumps.<br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35598803824772034492017-10-03T16:58:14.905-04:002017-10-03T16:58:14.905-04:00Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies has ...<i><br />Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies has not just pushed the Bush administration deep on to the defensive over its approach to terrorism. It also pokes a stick into another hornet's nest by asking whether the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was not in some way linked to al-Qa'ida.<br /><br />Nobody, least of all Mr Clarke, is suggesting that al-Qa'ida carried out the bombing, which was pinned primarily on Timothy McVeigh, with help from his old army buddy Terry Nichols. But his book stirs up some troubling unanswered questions about Mr Nichols' many trips to the Philippines in the years preceding the bombing and raises the possibility that he received explosives training from Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the first World Trade Centre bombing in 1993.<br />...<br /><br />Mr Clarke notes that both Yousef and Nichols were in Cebu City, a hotbed of activity by the radical Filipino group Abu Sayyaf, on the same days, and that Nichols continued to make phone calls to Cebu for some time afterwards.<br /><br />"Could the al-Qa'ida explosives expert have been introduced to the angry American who proclaimed his hatred for the US government?" Mr Clarke writes. "We do not know, despite some FBI investigation. We do know that Nichols's bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned."</i><br /><br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29613887633964950042017-10-03T15:29:44.017-04:002017-10-03T15:29:44.017-04:00This sounds like happier news -
October 2, 2017
C...This sounds like happier news -<br /><br />October 2, 2017<br /><b>China openly discussing collapse of North Korea</b><br />By Thomas Lifson<br /><br /><i>China has sent an unmistakable signal that Kim Jong-un had better not rely on the historic alliance between China and North Korea to resist President Trump's demands. In fact, as he dallies with his troop of teen sex slaves, he had better keep in mind that Beijing is wondering what it might be like with the Kim dynasty out of the way.<br /><br />The Chinese way of delivering such a harsh message is to use a third party – preferably one without a policy role, but who clearly speaks for the ruling elite. Someone, for instance, like the dean of international studies at Beijing University (the Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford of China)....</i><br /><br /><br /> http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/china_openly_discussing_collapse_of_north_korea.html#ixzz4uTVnVWvM <br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43981974325636902702017-10-03T15:21:33.579-04:002017-10-03T15:21:33.579-04:00Hope I'm not around to witness it.Hope I'm not around to witness it.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28425394995426250992017-10-03T15:00:09.605-04:002017-10-03T15:00:09.605-04:00.
From Tom's Dispatch,
The Global War of 203....<br /><br />From Tom's Dispatch,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2017/10/02/the_global_war_of_2030_112572.html" rel="nofollow">The Global War of 2030</a><br /><br /><br />A sobering analysis of a war not too far into the future, a war that given current trends the US could lose from Alfred W. McCoy's new book <i>In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power</i>.<br /><br />The strength of the US economy and our strength in science and technology were what won the Cold War. Right now, the trends are all moving in the wrong direction.<br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com