Guard Dog

Oh I know there is nothing to this but absurdity. That's why I posted it here and not in the politics thread. But it is silly. On a side note I was reminded of Babu Bhatt's restaurant in Seinfeld, The Dream Cafe, that had every type of ethic food on the menu. I thought it would be cool to have a place like that. Then I realized we do... The Golden Corral! The bad news is the food ain't that good. The good news is there is plenty of it!

I'm getting paid to go fishing today. Well... actually I'm getting paid to collect water samples on the Lauderdale River. But If I happen to do some fishing while doing that I'm sure no one will mind.

You gotta be kidding me! http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/05/23/stop-shaming-culture-appropriation-food/

This just in: They are ALL liars! http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/22/whos-telling-the-truth-in-washington-any Please ... please contain your shock levels. I know this will come as a surprise to everyone... and by everyone I mean no one. You want my advice? Turn off the news, get off the internet, go fishing. You will be much happier!

Happy Birthday! You're old enough to know how to do things and young enough to still be able to do them all!

Bye bye f-----g Spurs

Disgusting

I meant to post this last week. The Great State on Tennessee, my home state, is now offering free college for qualifying state residents. You heard that correctly. If you are a citizen of the state of Tennessee of any age, you may attend college here tuition free. The requirements are that you have resided as a permanent resident of this state for one year. That you take enough classes to qualify as a pat time student. And that you maintain a 2.0 GPA. You mat then take any degree program offered at any community college for free, courtesy of the folks who buy lottery tickets. This state is as red as it gets. Except for just two counties and one congressional seat the Democrat Party controls nothing here. One wonders why this does not get more media attention? http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/pf/college/tennessee-free-community-college/

I ordered a new laptop today. I considered switching over to Apple after what I read in consumer reports. According to them Apple laptops have an average failure rate of 9% after 3 years of ownership. Windows laptops (granted comparing one brand to many) have an aggregate average of 18% failure rate after three years. But after four years the apple rate climbs to 12% and Windows machines to 42%. Mine is 4 years old and has a motherboard and HDD issue. So i was liking Apple for the reliability but there are just so many limitations on SW compatibility. Not as bad as it used to be by any means but if you want something outside the Apple ecosystem you're kind of screwed. And Macs are very expensive. I was looking at the Macbook Pro but dressed up the way I'd want it would cost almost $2k. That is nuts. That would not even have a dedicated GPU and for me that is a must. So I opted to with an Alienware 13 R3. It has the i7-7700HQ Quad & NVIDIA 1060 with 6GBDDR5. It was a little expensive and I'm not loving a 13" display but if I had to make a trade off it would be in display size. It was quite a bit less than the Macbook Pro. Plus Dell offered $80 in rewards if I took their awful financing offer. 19% APR! That's robbery. It does have 1 year no interest. I'll definitely pay that off.

If you think I get offended. You are mistaken. Ignorance is not a solution. Well you created this thread so either it bothers you or you just wanted to point out the absurdity of it. Considering this guy wanted everyone who didn't believe in man made global warming locked up (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/14/bill-nye-open-criminal-charges-jail-time-climate-c/) the level of expectations from him isn't real high to begin with. Like Malc said, he's just a guy with a unrealistic TV Show. Jerry Springer has one of those. It does not mean you have to watch. So I'm going to assume this bothers you. Well the solution there is easy. Unlike when we were kids there are endless cable and internet channels to watch. There is never a time when there isn't something else on. Now if you want his show taken off for (insert any reason here) then I'd have to say that would be a very... liberal... position to take. After all, it is the left wing anti-liberty types that want to ban everything they don't approve of right? It would be hypocritical to do that kind of thing while castigating them for it. On a different note remember how awful it was when we were kids on Labor Day Weekend? Well, if you are in your 40's and remember a time before cable TV. We had just four channels and the Jerry Lewis Telethon was on every one of them 24-7 the whole weekend. That sucked.

Does this bother you Val? That it's offensive morally speaking? That it's co-opting "science" so sell a political viewpoint? That it's not particularly entertaining? The solution is the same... don't watch it. There are many, many, and more shows I won't watch and never lose a minute of sleep if they are occupying air time. What remedy are you hoping for here? That it be taken off TV? That folks don't watch. Well if it's the latter I'm way ahead of you and if it's the former don't waste bytes on your data plan asking for that. Nothing you can do. You know why I'm basically a happy guy? I pay no attention to things that irritate me. Bill Nye does not exist in Guard Dog's world.And if folks want to watch his show, laugh at it, even believe it's all fact that will change nothing in your life or mine. You and I agree on somethings, disagree on others but even if we were opposite of everything the sun will still come up in the east and set in the west. The big river still flows south and our dogs still love us. Bill Nye can't make you believe anything true or false so don't lose sleep over it,

Congrats!

I'd never heard of it until I looked up just now. But friends let me tell you, some of those stories are old. A hell of a lot older than a book from the '80s. It's pretty cool to see them all collected in a book though. Your library banned this RNdevil? I wonder why? I bet they had all of Poe's books. Same kind of thing.

I ought ti apply for a permit. When that ask why I'll say at want to glue googly eye on the rocks with a smiley face and a caption that says "I saw the Grand Canyon". If I get approved THEN he can sue!

Epic photo-bombhttp://bleacherreport.com/articles/2710407-george-w-bush-photobombs-reporter-at-rangers-game:

You know what? Thank God for baseball. It's on literally every day. It takes all of the attention you wish to pay to it and fills it with drama and entertainment. For 9 beautiful innings and 3 peaceful hours you can forget the world is going to hell in a handbasket all around you. If you team wins it's great. If they get the absolute tar beaten out of them, like the Marlins did in LA last night, it does not matter. They will play again tomorrow. I've got the Rays vs Yankees on the radio now and when that goes off the Marlins will play the Dodgers. And later tonight the Memphis Redbirds are in Fresno and I can catch that on the radio too. Trump who? Never heard of him.

Well to be fair they really didn't say WHY his permit was denied. If they do 80 a year and his application is #81 he has no case. Reapply next year. And why would his book cause a stir? If you think it's absurd don't buy it but don't get down on them for trying to sell it. Besides, everyone knows the Grand Canyon was created by Paul Bunyon dragging is double bladed axe behind him as walked to Colorado after cutting down the Mojave Forest.

What books?

OK, after rereading I see where Gfted was going. My mistake.

Sure, which is why the Andrew Jackson statue in NO isn't going anywhere. It is iconic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7XS_8qgXM

Hmmm.... books... statues... there were two different conversations right? If not I might have missed something

Taking books off the required reading list and banning them are not the same thing by any means. I'm a bit dubious on what can be accomplished forcing students to read books someone other than them thought were important. I think they would be better served being able to choose from a list of 100 or so titles and be tested on those. That's for K-12. The worst thing you can do to a kid is turn reading into a chore. Yes I'm talking about you J.D Salinger. Catcher in the Rye was the worst-book-ever. That is a week of my life I'll never get back! And Dickens, your Great Expectations wasn't so great either... cool plot twist though. Got to hand it to you there.

Considering where it is I guess I don;t blame you

That is a case of strategy not really catching up with technology. 90% of the Officers of both sides (this would drop a LOT by war's end) were graduates of West Point, VMI, and places like that. They were taught Napoleonic tactics because that is what suited the weapons of the day. Many of them were also veterans of Mexico and there the infantry used the .69 caliber model 1816 musket. Smooth bore muskets were fast to reload but useless beyond 75 yards and very inaccurate. The only way to use them effectively was to fire in unison from a massed formation. By 1861 some of the state militias were still using them and many southern militias were using the British Brown Bess, but most of the regular army were carrying the 1861 Springfield. It was a muzzle loaded percussion rifle. They had a max range of 500 yards but were deadly inside of 300. Marching in formation against that was suicidal. Just ask Col Oliver Howard who got the 3rd & 4th Maine regiment killed almost to the last man assaulting the bald hills at Bull Run. By the time the Manassas Campaing was finished both sides had changed tactics to firing and advancing by regiment rather than the stand and fire of the musket days. And by the Battle of Yellow Tavern near the war's end even that was gone and regimental sized engagements became company sized since it was easier to cover the movements of small bodies of troops,