It's at Mediaite, but the writer is solid. He notes what many of us have been noting -- the liberal media's sudden disinterest in political motivations when a shooter's a lefty -- but it's well-done.

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I'm searching for a solution now-- apparently this virus is being inserted all over the web (there are references to it everywhere, if you google it).

Google Chrome even blocked the Google-owned YouTube.

Until we get this fixed you might want to keep off this site. Maybe turn off the computer.

Explanation? Gabe did what I didn't and read to the end.

The errors are similar to the experience of many Chrome users earlier in the week, when error warnings spread wide Monday morning after a Silicon Valley web-advertising company's website was hacked with malware.

In the earlier case, Netseer's corporate website was infected, which caused Chrome to block it; however, the company's ad-serving infrastructure and corporate website had the same domain, so any ad served by Netseer caused Chrome to block the page.

Google did not immediately respond to an email request for comment Saturday, outside normal business hours, but said in response to Monday's incident that it does not comment on individual malware cases.

Well, that's not as clear as I'd like it, but what I think it means is that this is a false warning, at the moment.

I think it means that, at least. I think it means that malware was detected, and now all of Netseer is being blacklisted by Chrome, despite the fact that the malware problem is (again, I think this is what they mean) now handled.

Posted by: Ace at 01:11 PM | Comments (111)
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Some of y'all have been whining for some Doom! OK, here ya go. The Coming Obamacare Recession. If you're just starting to plan for this now, you're behind the power curve.

Consumer and business spending, which have been rising modestly, will continue to rise if consumers and businesses have confidence in the future. The new year, however, brought with it higher taxes, and not just the increases on income over $400,000 recently won by the Obama forces. Many Obamacare taxes became effective January 1, 2013, including a 0.9% increase in Medicare Taxes and an extra 3.8% tax on investment income, including dividends, interest, capital gains, and rent income, for households earning more than $250,000.

Some of the ugly details of Obamacare, the most far-reaching piece of legislation to be passed without a single member of Congress having actually read it—indeed not even having been allowed a serious chance to read it—have only been gaining attention in recent months. Looking forward to 2014, employers are now looking at an additional $63 per insured employee fee to compensate insurance companies for the added costs of covering previously uninsured people with pre-existing conditions. That’s supposed to phase out by 2017, but if you believe that you probably also bought the line that Obama is in favor of a “balanced” approach to deficit reduction.

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Remember the song "If you like piña coladas/ And getting caught in the rain/ If you're not into health food/ And you're into drinking champagne/ . . ."? Pretty annoying, huh? That song was written by Rupert Holmes. Well, in 1971 he wrote a song recorded by one-hit wonder band The Bouys, Timothy. Rupert was at a different stage in his life then. It was before the piña coladas had taken the edge off.

Timothy was about cannibalism.

"Timothy" is a song written by Rupert Holmes and recorded by the Buoys in 1971, presenting the unnerving story of three men trapped in a collapsed mine, two of whom apparently resort to cannibalism against the third (the eponymous character Timothy).

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"Timothy" attracted little attention when it was first released, in large part because Scepter Records did not promote the record. Soon, however, it became popular among young listeners who were able to deduce Timothy's fate from the lyrics. Only as the song became more frequently requested did radio stations begin to take note of the song and its unsettling subject matter. Then, just as Holmes and the Buoys had expected, the song started getting banned.

Under normal circumstances, a radio ban would be considered the "kiss of death" for a single's prospects on the Billboard music charts, which at that time were based heavily on radio airplay. Yet "Timothy" had already attracted such a great following that as some radio stations banned the song, competing stations would pick it up to meet the demand. As a result, instead of dropping off as expected, the song continued slowly moving up the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Once they realized they had a hit record on their hands, Scepter Records executives tried to claim that Timothy was really a mule, not a person, in order to get radio stations that had banned the song to reconsider.

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He heckled the grieving president. How rude.

As far as his background -- he's a legitimately gifted surgeon, specializing in pediatric neurology. He has the distinction of being the first surgeon to successfully separate Siamese twins. (He realized he could put them into hypothermic arrest at the key part of the surgery, when the twins would otherwise bleed out on the table, as previous separated-Siamese Twins had.)

I mention that because people are saying "Carson for President!" and I was just curious about whether that seems feasible.

Status: Feasible

Downside: It's "rude" to say what you believe in front of the Liberal Christ, before whom you must bow and quaver

Other Downsides: Lose the goatee, Hippie. This isn't a Jefferson Airplane concert. Serious men have serious facial hair or, preferably, serious clean-shaving.

Carson said he didn't want to run... but did allow "if the Lord grabbed me by the collar and made me do it, I would."

Lovely Bio:

[Carson's mother] required book reports from her boys every week, which would be returned to them corrected, at which point they would get a new assignment with direction to improve. They found out years later that friends of their mother from church were correcting the reports, as their mother could not read. Amazing woman, raised amazing men.

thanks to barbarausa.

Videos Deleted: We're getting a malware warning and I'm trying to figure out what is causing it. Apparently, this malware, us.bernenverein.ch (don't click on that) is on a lot of sites.

I'm still asking around.

Posted by: Ace at 09:21 AM | Comments (371)
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No person wants to think of a child's life wasted. We want to see them raised in a loving, supportive home. We want to see them receive the best education. We want them to feel safe. We want these things because they contribute to the quality of adult life they will lead. Yet with sadness, despair even, we are aware that too many children do not live the lives we dream for them.

Cristian Fernandez is just such a boy.

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America's first offensive victory in the Pacific war.

A six month campaign, one of the longest in the war, fought on land, sea and air. Although the Marines initial assault was relatively unopposed, the Japanese stiffened resistance and the next six months were a bloody struggle of back and forth of intense combat and strained lines of supply.

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, USMC, Platoon Sgt. Mitchell Paige, USMC, 2nd Lt. Jefferson DeBlanc, USMCR and Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro, USCG were all awarded the Medal of Honor.

John Basilone is the only enlisted Marine in WWII to have received both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross, the Navy Cross posthumously after combat on Iwo Jima.

Douglas Munro was the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor. It was awarded posthumously. The full citation is below the break.

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Posted by: Dave in Texas at 10:21 AM | Comments (67)
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Morning all, and sorry for the late start.

I don't usually have to shovel a path first thing in the morning so the dog can go out. Holy sh*t is that a lot of snow!

Hope all the rest of you NE morons have power, heat and an appropriate beverage for when you get done shoveling. What flavor Valu-Rite goes best with coffee, anyway?

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We still have national enemies. And they are watching our polarized state, and looking to press on the divisions, break us open where we're cracking, find ways to spark the tinderbox that is our national politics.

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – A federal terrorism task force arrested a man they said intended to detonate a car bomb in front of an Oakland bank in the hopes of sparking a civil war by making the bomb blast appear to be the work of anti-government “militias.”

He was hoping to go to Afghanistan and join the Taliban. I'll leave it to you, dear Morons, to elucidate why he seemed to know there would be no profit in pinning his villainy on (currently pro-government) lefties.

Why, you would almost think that the establishment was of the Left; and that it was slavering over the prospect of a general crackdown against conservatives, and that this mutant had somehow sensed that current in the zeitgeist.

And if he sensed it, then how long do we have before framing 'militias' becomes a fashion?

It goes without saying, the debt we all owe to the FBI, and everybody else who is standing on that wall.

Thanks to Sobek.

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Gabe said "there are some interesting pilots slated for the fall," and I was going to say "LIAR!!"

But, if you're geeky, then this is just an embarrassment of riches.

I haven't seen this kind of sci-fi/fantasy/Android Cop kind of schedule since I was younger told by a much-older brother about the sci-fi/superhero craze of the late seventies which I totally know nothing about first hand being far too young to have seen it firsthand.

Eh, I don't want to encourage people to watch TV. But you don't listen to me anyway.

Is this all, ultimately because of Doctor Who? I don't watch a lot of TV (he lied) but I'm having trouble of thinking of other big-hit sci-fi/fantasy shows that would justify this newest craze.

Maybe the Hunger Games plus Twilight? Or them, plus the Marvel movies?

The reason I mention Doctor Who is just my personal memory -- when I started watching it, after years of avoiding that type of show, I thought, "Oh right, I used to like this sort of action-adventure-fantasy sort of thing, so long ago."

So long ago, when my much-older brother (seriously, there was like a 10 year gap, at least; maybe 20) relayed the plots of old episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man.

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