Every time I tried to access a subdomain by clicking on a story (yro.slashdot.org, science.slashdot.org, etc), I would be logged out. Returning to the main page, I'm logged in again. Surprise, surprise, it doesn't happen in Chrome. So I guess that's it for me. Google has just managed to make me switch.
Relationship Change
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on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:05PM
lars_stefan_axelsson (236283) has made you their foe.
I'm not sure why he moderated me down but it might relate to his lack of understanding of communism.
The report dents many of the claims some Republicans have advanced, including rejecting the claim that CIA security officers were told to âoestand downâ and not try to rescue State Department personnel at the diplomatic compound under assault, and that the White House forced the CIA to alter talking points to delete references to a terrorist attack.
But go ahead, ask for another investigation. We don't really have anything better to do with billions of dollars, do we?
the top Democrat on that committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said Fridayâ(TM)s report should close the books on the CIA talking-points part of their inquiry.
âoeAfter an exhaustive bipartisan investigation that spanned nearly two years, the House intelligence committee now unanimously agrees that the CIA talking points reflected conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the attacks and that there is no evidence that the intelligence community shipped arms to Syria,â Mr. Cummings said in a statement.
âoeBased on these unanimous, bipartisan findings, there is no reason for the Benghazi Select Committee to reinvestigate these facts, repeat the work already done by our Republican and Democratic colleagues, and squander millions of additional taxpayer dollars in the process,â he said.
You probably think this JE's about you, don't you?
1. Oil prices remain depressed, taking the world economy to the edge of instability. Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela--fertilizer decorates global air circulators. Baleful Barack brings bronze bollocks; Tsar Putin triumphantly treads titanium testicle territory.
This year is not even 2 days old, and things are happening.
On December 15th, I wrote my Year in Review, in which I detailed the good, bad, and ugly things that had happened over the last year. I found out yesterday that I was wrong about failing to stop the Co-op developer.
One of my neighbours gave a lift to two people, one who is a former worker there, and the other who still works there. Seems I'm notorious around their offices. It turns out that by my delaying part of their work for more than 6 months, they couldn't get the progress payments from the bank that was lending them the money as a bridge loan. No money, contractor stops work, the monthly fixed costs still have to be paid
Turns out that I didn't need the cooperation of the people on the other side of the street to continue the resistance. So, one person can make a difference! Woot!
On another note, I don't like facebook. I've created accounts there several times, and abandoned them. The interface is clunky, there's not much in the way of serious (or even non-serious) debate - heck, even a good troll once in a while would be comic relief!
But I made another new account a while back (lost the old accounts' password), and after fooling around with it, ignored it.
Until New Years Eve. I had friended a few people, and facebook had suggested a few others, and I friended a few of them. My half-sister, who I've only seen once for maybe 15 seconds, is one of them. I really didn't know just how to approach her, but I wished her a Happy New Year, she returned the greeting, and we got to chatting. So now I have 6 sisters, not 5. Wow. Just
I still think the design of facebook sucks, but for me, this kind of makes up for a lot of the suckage.
I hope your year is starting off as good as mine!
It's that time of year again. Look at the past year, and figure out what we're going to do in the new year
1) Lose that weight I put on since going on antidepressants.
2) Get back to my writing once the effects of the last depression are gone.
3) Not be so much of a stickler for details / pedantic.
That's enough for one year. It might not sound like much, but these last few years, and especially this last one, took a lot out of me. I'm hoping that 2015 will be a time of healing and optimism.
And for everyone else
Whether this has been a bad year or a good year, I hope that this time next year you'll be able to say 2015 was a good year, a better year, a kinder year. Happy New Year, gang!
In reply to Barbara Hudson, I offered something I'd written over a decade ago, in the "haiku sonnet" form that I fetish for some strange reason.
Feel free to use a REAL instead of a FLOAT.
The state Government Accountability Board's top officials proceeded with a secret probe into coordination between Gov. Scott Walkerâ(TM)s campaign and conservative political groups for months without authorization from the six retired judges who run the board, court records unsealed Friday allege.
The documents filed by a target of the investigation also allege that the board voted to end its involvement in the probe in July but that staff continued to work on it.
The records add ammunition to Republicans in the state Legislature seeking to overhaul or abolish Wisconsinâ(TM)s elections and ethics watchdog agency.
I can't fathom the disquiet about secret investigations.You know darn good and well that those Lefties felt justified when they did it. Isn't that what matters? As long as our moral superiors say it's important, I gotta figure it's important.
Another reason not to trust H.R. consultants - as if anyone needs one.
The lawyer representing an Orleans human resources consultant charged with attempted murder in an attack on a 101-year-old veteran says she will consider asking the court for a referral to a psychiatrist.
Police would not confirm the name of the man charged but in a news release said they had arrested a 59-year-old man on Friday and charged him with attempted murder, robbery with violence, forcible confinement, break and enter and two counts of using a credit card obtained by crime.
The arrest drew a commendation from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Police say a man broke into the New Edinburgh apartment of Ernest CÃté, retired colonel and Second World War veteran, on Thursday morning after pretending to be a City of Ottawa employee. The man tied up CÃté, placed a plastic bag over his head and robbed him. CÃté was able to free himself and call 911.
Is this a targeted hate crime?
On Remembrance Day, Bushâ(TM)s account tweeted an angry response to a Globe and Mail reporter who noted that people had shouted "thank-you" as a group of veterans marched by.
"Thank-you? For what???" the tweet said. When someone else responded that thanks were deserved for protecting the countryâ(TM)s freedoms, Bushâ(TM)s account replied, "What nonsense you spew. What freedoms? Spell them out! You believe the propaganda like a little Nazi."
A catfisher must have come upon one of my email addresses, and wants to get friendly. Obviously, I don't!
The options are (a) ignore or (b) do some "Social Justice Trolling".
Anyone have any experience with a catfisher?
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
