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Hey! Hippies are back! Oh please please please say brought back Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane with them!

Tonight and tomorrow I'm getting hit by Tropical Storm Barry... for the second time in a week! Oh well, it's just rain. At least this far north. The folks down river might have a harder go of it.

Another head that needs to roll is Dave Aronberg the States Attorney for Palm Beach County. This BS has been going on for years. Even back when I lived there. Everyone knew about it. Everyone. Democrat and Republican alike. Both state, federal and even presidential. No one gave a s--t. As log as he kept the campaign donations and island invites coming he could exploit and f--k anyone he wanted. Man or woman, boy or girl. Governments do not give two s---s about justice if there is something in it for them to look the other way.

During a routine traffic stop in Oklahoma for expired tags cops found that: The truck was stolen The two people in the car had ative warrants An open bottle of whiskey They had an illegal firearm They had a live rattlesnake in the truck with them A canister of powdered uranium. Yes... actual uranium. No charges were filed against the snake... they other two occupants were not so lucky! https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/rattlesnake-uranium-oklahoma-trnd/index.html

I'm not sure the regular networks are allowed in the WH these days!

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AI beats pro poker players in six way match. https://www.france24.com/en/20190711-ai-program-beats-pros-six-player-poker-first I play chess against various apps and games a lot. 3-4 times a day often. Fritz 10 is by far the best IMO. Just mute the voice because it is seriously annoying. But with the exception of Fritz I've found beating the AI really just involves being unconventional. Every opening and response is in every database. So go off book real quick. Even if it puts you at a disadvantage. Also the AI values pieces by their worth. It will often ruin it's own position to capture a queen if you leave her open. I seldom win a game against a sufficiently high level chess program with my queen and two rooks still on the board. You give them up to force the opponent to move where you want them to. But AI poker... don't see how effective that can be. Forget bluffing. It's all probabilities. If you don't have a hand, don't play. And let me tell you something, if you have two pair, mister you do NOT have a winning hand. I can imagine a poker AI will fare better on a game like Hold Em where you can see five cards. Try that playing five card stud or five card draw where the entire hand is concealed.

This will surprise no one: https://nypost.com/2019/07/11/trumps-social-media-summit-nearly-descends-into-brawl-in-rose-garden/

So.... which Presidential candidate is going to fix this? https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-budget-gap-widened-23-in-first-nine-months-of-fiscal-year-11562868054 That would be none of them. I'll ask a simpler question... which candidate promises not t make this worse? That would also be none. Time to stockpile more canned food, fuel, and ammunition. Tick tock tick tock...

Political porn... now that's hot!

Bruce don't feed the trolls.

After Bill Clinton possible implicated in Epstein case:

The more she says the more I like her: https://reason.com/2019/07/10/gabbard-sympathizes-with-amash-says-political-parties-have-too-much-power/ and https://www.marijuanamoment.net/tulsi-gabbard-files-bill-to-study-hemps-uses-for-just-about-everything/ I know I swore I'd never vote for any Democrat but if she somehow gets nominated I would make an exception. But she won't. The nomination process is designed to offer up the biggest turd, not the best candidate.

RIP to Rip. Rip Torn passed away

Yeah I just saw that. I didn't know he was still with us

Russian Sub Crew prevented a "planetary catastrophe". https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/stricken-russian-nuke-sub-crew-prevented-planetary-catastrophe/ar-AAE1Fn5 Maybe a tad melodramatic since they also said the reactor was not in danger. But it occurs to me this is not the first time a Russian sub crew has had to save the world from shoddy Russian hardware.

IMO the only appropriate response to heavy handed government is defiance.

On a related not to the departure of the world-be-nuclear-tyrant Swalwell from the race, kudos to my brothers and sisters in New Zealand for refusing to comply with their country's new gun laws: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/30/new-zealand-struggles-to-enforce-gun-control-law/ Especially since the government there, knowing they have their own citizens over a barrel, have been low balling them on buyback prices: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12242343 Only 700 of an estimated 1.5M have been turned in. As I have said before, the answer to unjust laws is to disobey them. Civil disobedience in the public spaces. If they come for you and yours in your own home; uncivil disobedience. If that trash is ever tried here I would never meekly hand mine over. They only way they get them is to come and take them. The day it happens I will die, with as many of them as I can manage.

Dammit! Now what am I going to do with this bomb shelter I've been digging???

Oh I'm quite sure he was not serious. But it wasn't funny. Would the Democrats think it was funny if the Trumpster said something like that? I'm guessing not. Of course it's worrisome when a man promises to use government violence to do a thing that violates the US Constitution. Especially after that very concept has been ruled against by the Supreme Court not once but twice recently. But hey, when has the temperament of a Presidential candidate made them unsuitable for office. Certainly not recently.

It looks like Hickenlooper and Swalwell will be the first two of the 23 Democrat candidates to talk about dropping out. Hicknlooper is considering a run for the Colorado Senate seat and Swalwell says he'll decide in December with is also the deadline to run for his House seat. Too bad about Swalwell really. I imagine a President that promises to use use nuclear weapons to assist in firearms confiscation would be highly entertaining. Or a continuation of the s--t show we have now.

Answer: USA wins the FIFA World Cup! Question: What is something American Women can do that American Men can't?

"But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." Henry V Act IV Scene I

I've had a few drinks. And followed those with a few more. I passed one too many a little while ago so allow me apologize in advance for anything I might say in the next two ot three hours.