Andrew Salmon, 42, was upset by his wife, Beverley’s reaction when his mother died so he locked her in the garden shed before assaulting her at their Truro home.
Words fail me.
“The more Catholic the better” is the tag line for the site that this video resides at.
Italian grocery store in London.
Cool, … for the diversity fanatics there’s a Youtube clip of a beheading at a Muslim Market in Iran. No?
Posted on | March 17, 2014
In Boston, the mayor wouldn’t march in the parade because the organizers refuse to allow a gay group to march, and in New York, pressure from gay boycotters convinced Guinness to pull its sponsorship of the parade.
Evidently, it is not enough to have a Gay Pride parade every June. Now every parade must be a Gay Pride parade.
(Those are two beers I’ll never be tasting again. )
Alternately, let them march and then beat the shit out of them. Like in the old days. (Second thought, that wouldn’t work, a Gentleman doesn’t hit women, so the lesbians would kick our ass! So if they insist on showing up where they are not wanted then cancel the damn thing and stay home and work on how we’re going to destroy the Democrats in November!)
The U.S. government’s plan to give away authority over the Internet’s core architecture to the “global Internet community” could endanger the security of both the Internet and the U.S. — and open the door to a global tax on Web use.
“U.S. management of the internet has been exemplary and there is no reason to give this away — especially in return for nothing,” former Bush administration State Department senior advisor Christian Whiton told The Daily Caller. “This is the Obama equivalent of Carter’s decision to give away the Panama Canal — only with possibly much worse consequences.”
Our generations Panama Canal…Worse.
Another POS idea from the head turd.
From: Greg Kottis (via Gail Bowers)
61.The most decorated unit ever in U.S. history is the 442nd Regimental
Combat Team, whose motto was “Go for Broke” It consisted of
Japanese-American volunteers. Together they won 4,667 major medals,
awards, and citations, including 560 Silver Stars (28 of which had
oak-leaf clusters), 4,000 Bronze Stars, 52 Distinguished Service Crosses,
and one Medal of Honor, plus 54 other decorations. It also held
the distinction of never having a case of desertion.
Personal note, my father-in-law George Inada (Joji George Inada) was an American soldier in WWII. Born on the island of Maui, educated in Japan and returned home on the last ship to leave Japan for the States before the outbreak of war. While the brave men of the 442nd Regiment served in Europe partly due to the reason that the army was afraid that having American soldiers that looked the same as the enemy could result in accidents and partly due to the sure knowledge that any Nisei (American born) that fell into the hands of the Japanese would surely suffer horribly at their hands. Nevertheless, my father-in-law served in the Pacific. His fluent Japanese and education enabled him work near the front translating the tactical radio transmissions of the Japanese units, who at the start of the war often spoke in the clear convinced that no American could speak their language. This was very hazardous work for which he was decorated.Today he is buried in the Veterans Cemetery on Maui.
1. World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. It cost more
money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more
far-reaching changes than any other war in history.
2. The country with the largest number of WWII causalities was Russia ,
with over 21 million.
3. For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on
the Eastern Front.
4. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust.
Approximately 1.2 million of them were Jewish and tens of thousands were
Gypsies.
5. Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII. Continue reading
Any vetereans of WWII familiar with the area between India and Malaysia? Remember any hardened strips built during the war, particularly around the Anderman Islands? Something that could handle a Boeing 777? Roughly 8,000 to 10,000 feet. (Same distance as WWII fields built for B-29 Bombers)
Because sure as God made little green apples, no one is going fly an aircraft from one sea to another sea four or five hours away just to splash it.
I don’t know what happened. But I do know one thing, this mystery is going to be solved within ten days or less. 
Posting this cartoon is strictly for entertainment purposes, I in no way mean to suggest that Muslims are behind the Malaysian Airline mystery.
The word “bacon” actually has a fairly lengthy back story, but the word itself has the same Old French origin as the word “back,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Back bacon is commonly found in England and is comprised of the loin with a small amount of belly attached.
New WordPress edit format doesn’t show draft copies unless I look for them, so I missed this..so this is not timely nor am I inclined to delay it by giving it a needed work-over and rewrite. Spring Fever, what is denied only grows in force.
Sen. Ted Cruz believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders no longer respect President Obama because of his failure to lead.
“The only thing Putin respects is strength … At this point the Russians are openly laughing at the president,” Cruz, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner.
Cruz added that Putin’s aggressiveness was “a direct consequence” of the absence of American leadership in the world.
“The weakness and incoherent foreign policy of the Obama administration — from President Obama, under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and under Secretary [John] Kerry — has undermined our allies and has strengthened our enemies and put Putin in particular in a far stronger position,” Cruz declared.
A Navy F-18 fighter pilot and former Top Gun instructor is publicly warning admirals that retention is beginning to suffer from the military’s relentless social conditioning programs.
Cmdr. Guy Snodgrass, until recently a Pentagon speech writer for the chief of naval operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, said sailors are becoming fed-up with the constant emphasis on social issues — an apparent reference to gays in the military, women in combat and ending sexual harassment.
SEE ALSO: Obama to kill Navy’s Tomahawk, Hellfire missile programs in budget decimation
“Sailors continue to cite the over-focus on social issues by senior leadership, above and beyond discussions on war fighting — a fact that demoralizes junior and mid-grade officers alike,” Cmdr. Snodgrass wrote this month on the U.S. Naval Institute website, an independent forum for active and retired sailors and Marines.
“FRA is concerned that Congress has not learned from past mistakes that pay caps and other benefits cuts impact negatively on retention and recruitment,” Davis said….
Without the estimated $2.1 billion that the benefits proposals would save next year, and with an additional $30 billion in sequester cuts coming over the next five years, readiness and modernization will suffer, said DoD Comptroller Robert Hale.
“These cuts are going to have to come out of readiness and modernization. There’s nowhere else to go,” Hale told lawmakers during the hearing.
The advocacy groups oppose nearly all the proposed benefits cuts in the fiscal 2015 budget, including changes to housing, commissaries and pay increases.
Dear XXX
We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99 when your membership renews on January 13, 2015.
Even as fuel and transportation costs have increased, the price of Prime has remained the same for nine years. Since 2005, the number of items eligible for unlimited free Two-Day Shipping has grown from one million to over 20 million. We also added unlimited access to over 40,000 movies and TV episodes with Prime Instant Video and a selection of over 500,000 books to borrow from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
For more information about your Prime membership, visit our Prime membership page.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Prime Team
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Amazon.com
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Update: It’s just before Christmas (2014) and close enough to go ahead and push the End Membership button. So this is what happened to me.
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OK, end later is good enough if it really stops the automatic charge to my card. I’ve gone to and looked at the page Manage your Prime Membership several times in the last twelve months and it never looks or reads quite the same way each time. (I was offended by Amazon’s crowing about adding millions of new Prime members during Christmas and decided to go back and END NOW. Guess what? That was a one time selection, there is no way to end Prime immediately anymore. )
I ordered one last thing from Amazon Prime last week, a DVD and it arrived practically the next day. Which is of course due to the vast increase in warehouses Amazon now has around the country. It’s possible that they have a warehouse in Massachusetts now, which is why they signed up with the MA Dept. of Revenue and signed onto the effort in Washington DC to enact an nationwide Internet Taxation bill.
They figure that they are now big enough and have enough spare computing power on hand to easily handle the 900 different tax jurisdictions and rates, but their smaller competitors don’t. Another example of large established corporations partnering with Big Government to suppress those competitors and lock up the market for the big boys. I don’t think I like Amazon.com anymore and whenever possible I’m going to start buying elsewhere.
End Update.
(Oops! Another update!) Since I clicked on end Prime guess what I see now, every time I go back to Amazon?
[John XXX: Your Amazon Prime Membership will expire on January 13, 2015 and you will stop receiving Prime benefits.
To continue receiving benefits turn on Auto-Renew: [Icon for Auto-Renew]
(Shit! I guess I should have selected immediate. This is the reason I dropped Norton AV, those unending nagging notices about renewal and the other messages and endless program or signature updates that you can’t turn off. The further the company or people get from their beginnings, the further they get from their customers and the more they decide they know what the customers want and are determined to ram it down their throats!
I assume I will (now) never be free of this nagging about re-subscribing to Prime unless I cancel my Amazon account. Is that what they want?)
(Back to original post) No, Thanks. I’m done.
(Sorry, another update: Amazon is a muddy river relates my latest problems and transaction with Amazon.)
I don’t use Prime Shipping any more for reasons previously enumerated, which includes their other “so-called benefits”.
As I complained before, Amazon has removed or hidden under fifteen levels of menus any way of communicating with them. Apparently they have decided that their Web Site is perfect and they require no further input from the paying customers. Even when you attempt to cancel your Prime membership.
Where did that come from?
Where was I? Oh yes, cancellation. So you go to the Prime membership page and there is a small link for End membership with no text regarding what happens after going down that rabbit hole. Pushing it only brings you to a another page with three doors buttons; Continue Membership, Reminder 3-days, and Cancel Membership. The first two tabs return you to the previous page without ado or further illumination. What happens if you press the third button? What happens to the $79 they just took from me in January? Is Prime Video immediately cut off? Is there any refund, prorated? Don’t know from the Amazon site.
Pursuing the question on independent sites, (which of course doesn’t indemnify Amazon) after going through the rabbit hole you are told if you are eligible for a refund (in Amazon’s opinion) and if not then you can uncheck a box labeled “Do not renew”. Then continue to use whatever Prime benefits that you still are interested in for the remainder of the paid membership. Except that the private descriptions of the page and the process don’t seem to match what you see on the Amazon site. Perhaps they reformatted the page and the process in conjunction with the above Email going out. To make it more threatening perhaps. But, God knows, there doesn’t seem to be any easy way to ask Amazon anything on the subject anymore.
(Update August 2015) It’s been nine weeks since I bought anything from Amazon. Yes, I went cold turkey! For my latest Amazon post, I called it, Amazon is Evil.
(Update October 2015) Twenty weeks since last I bought anything at Amazon, still have the actual account because without that account login I lose my access to my purchased movies and can’t ‘burrow’ ebooks and digital media from the town library. Odd how this post continues to be the most viewed week after week, must come up on the searches for ‘cancel Amazon Prime’. And never any comments. Or cease and desist orders either.
(Oct 2016) I have only been ‘buying’ items from Amazon that I can pay for with my Credit Card Points (yup, still have the credit card from Amazon). Even so, Amazon has fucked me again. Bought a ‘Trump: Make America Great’ campaign sign and after completing the purchase found out it was coming by boat from China. November 9th.
Amazon now doesn’t provide any identifying information on their Marketplace Vendors page. And they denied my review on the item page to warn others of this scam.
(December 2016) After more than two years, this is the most viewed post on my blog. Every week! I just checked and using Google search I’m three pages back on the list of ‘cancel Amazon Prime’ choices. Or 23d non-Amazon selection.
HISTORY OF THE CAR RADIO
Seems like cars have always had radios, but they didn’t. Here’s the true story:
One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset. It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear had served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy during World War I) and it wasn’t long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car. But it wasn’t as easy as it sounds:
Automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running.
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago. There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a “battery eliminator” a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.
Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business.
Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin’s factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker’s Packard. Good idea, but it didn’t work – Half an hour after the installation, the banker’s Packard caught on fire. (They didn’t get the loan.)
Galvin didn’t give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked — He got enough orders to put the radio into production.
WHAT’S IN A NAME
That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix “ola” for their names – Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola.
But even with the name change, the radio still had problems:
When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.) In 1930, it took two men several days to put in a car radio. The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna. These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions.
HIT THE ROAD
Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn’t have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression. Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola’s pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to “Motorola” in 1947.)
In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios.
In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts.
In 1940 he developed the first handheld two-way radio, the “Handie-Talkie” for the U. S. Army.
A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II.
In 1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200.
In 1956 the company introduced the world’s first pager;
in 1969 it supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon.
In 1973 it invented the world’s first handheld cellular phone. Today Motorola is one of the largest cell phone manufacturers in the world.
And it all started with the car radio.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin’s car, Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.
Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950’s he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and,eventually, air-conditioning.
Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he’s really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world’s first mass-produced, affordable business jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.) Sometimes it is fun to find out how some of the many things that we take for granted actually came into being!
And It all started with a woman’s suggestion!
Marine Beaches in Massachusetts
“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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