Since I am not a strong believer in coincidence, I find it very coincidental that several major airline carriers have had to ground their fleets due to supposed technology hiccups in the past several months including the most recent one that just happened with Delta. Just last week United had to ground its flights due to a supposed computer failure. The recent article reports, "Last year, a rash of computer failures disrupted flight operations at U.S. airlines. Thousands of passengers were stranded as carriers struggled to keep older information systems working. Delta took a $100 million hit to sales after a power-control module at the company’s Atlanta command center caught fire in August, cutting power to computers. Southwest Airlines Co. had to halt flights the month before that because of issues with “multiple technology systems.”".
I don't claim to know WTF is really going on here but I do know that large operations like major airlines do not rely on single point of failure computer systems. They are built from the ground up for fault tolerance, redundancy and resiliency at every level: power, processing and storage. They even have entire back up control sites so that in case one major computing Network Operations Center (NOC) is hit with catastrophe to include natural disaster like tornado, meteor strike, etc. OR terrorist activity like a major bomb detonation, another one can pick up operations nearly seamlessly. So when I read that every major carrier is suffering from "computer problems" it begins to sound like a childishly simple explanation for something that I know cannot be that childishly simple.
My first guess would be hackers probing the security systems of the infrastructure...
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Pathetic Puerto Rico reveling in its own economic collapse.
Puerto Rico has a new con man running the old con game which has entered the collapse phase. By now it's pretty clear to even the dimmest bulb that PR can't repay all of its $70 billion in debt. Unfortunately, that's being way too kind because PR eventually won't repay ANY of it. This is what the narrative of the new "leadership" is trying to obfuscate at present as it creates a new fiscal emergency law. They are trying to keep the Ponzi plate spinning as long as they can, to maintain the corrupt status quo as long as they can. The article says, "The new law allows Rossello to define which services are essential to health, safety and welfare, and set aside money in a "lockbox" to ensure their payment. Under the law, the island will try to pay as much of its $70 billion in debt as possible after payment of services.".
Well folks, when I see such rhetoric being used such as "money in a lockbox", I know it is elite speak for "there is no money and has not been for a long time". PR has been using debt in order to create a US type lifestyle for an economy which is fundamentally more akin to a failed Caribbean socialistic crap hole. Let me say it again: they have been using debt in order to provide these "essential services". They never earned enough to afford them in the first place. So the notion that they will apportion the existing / remaining wealth in such a way to ensure that such services will continue is a complete farce, a lie that was known to be a lie the moment it left the lips of the corrupt PR government. Are THEY essential? Well, it was they who got PR into $70 billion of debt. It was they who oversaw the collapse into a 45 percent poverty rate. So, NO the government assholes running that show are far from essential. They are in fact the problem. But I guarantee you that their salaries will fall under the list of things that must be maintained as "essential".
What an obvious con game. The economically ignorant people of PR are being trampled under the feet of these elitist "leaders" who are doing nothing more than ensuring their own personal fortunes while watching the people grow poorer and poorer. In a fair world the entire PR government would be driven into the sea by an armed populace but alas, the people of PR have essentially allowed themselves to be disarmed. The old saying "never give a sucker an even break" is alive and well in this world and I'm telling you here and now that it will become increasingly obvious that the definition of "sucker" is and always has been "he that has no realistic means of self defense or self determination". In other words, the disarmed.
Fortunately, there is hope for PR going forward because in 2015 most of the rules which kept PR citizens disarmed were deemed unconstitutional. But if you keep a lion in a cage for long enough he will forget what freedom means or feels like. And so just removing the legal bindings against having an armed populace does not immediately lead to having an armed populace. It will take time for the people to realize that they need to care about this and in fact it might need the current tired generation to die off. But with the cage door opened now I think that it will be increasingly more difficult for the government to continue using the PR citizens as door mats going forward.
Well folks, when I see such rhetoric being used such as "money in a lockbox", I know it is elite speak for "there is no money and has not been for a long time". PR has been using debt in order to create a US type lifestyle for an economy which is fundamentally more akin to a failed Caribbean socialistic crap hole. Let me say it again: they have been using debt in order to provide these "essential services". They never earned enough to afford them in the first place. So the notion that they will apportion the existing / remaining wealth in such a way to ensure that such services will continue is a complete farce, a lie that was known to be a lie the moment it left the lips of the corrupt PR government. Are THEY essential? Well, it was they who got PR into $70 billion of debt. It was they who oversaw the collapse into a 45 percent poverty rate. So, NO the government assholes running that show are far from essential. They are in fact the problem. But I guarantee you that their salaries will fall under the list of things that must be maintained as "essential".
What an obvious con game. The economically ignorant people of PR are being trampled under the feet of these elitist "leaders" who are doing nothing more than ensuring their own personal fortunes while watching the people grow poorer and poorer. In a fair world the entire PR government would be driven into the sea by an armed populace but alas, the people of PR have essentially allowed themselves to be disarmed. The old saying "never give a sucker an even break" is alive and well in this world and I'm telling you here and now that it will become increasingly obvious that the definition of "sucker" is and always has been "he that has no realistic means of self defense or self determination". In other words, the disarmed.
Fortunately, there is hope for PR going forward because in 2015 most of the rules which kept PR citizens disarmed were deemed unconstitutional. But if you keep a lion in a cage for long enough he will forget what freedom means or feels like. And so just removing the legal bindings against having an armed populace does not immediately lead to having an armed populace. It will take time for the people to realize that they need to care about this and in fact it might need the current tired generation to die off. But with the cage door opened now I think that it will be increasingly more difficult for the government to continue using the PR citizens as door mats going forward.
Clues are being given about what consitutes "the swamp" by Trump's actions.
First off, Trump is on track to set a record for the use of executive orders. Personally, I think it is a dangerous way to operate because it puts too much power in too few hands. But Trump didn't invent the Executive Order. Every president before him that used this type of power simply justified it more and more for the next guy down the line. Presidents that didn't do much didn't need to use many of them. According to Wiki, Bush2 used 291 of them and Obama used 276 of them, each over an 8 year period. In his first week Trump has issued 14 of them. FDR used 3522 of them. In any case I think the number of executive orders already issued by Trump shows that, rightly or wrongly, he is in there to actually change things. Unlike Obama and Bush who pretty much just occupied the White House without making any real changes during their tenures.
Trump's campaign slogan was "drain the swamp" and so that is what we should expect to see him doing if he wants to be remembered as a "do something" president. Draining the swamp is not easy. The swamp is full of nasty scary aggressive creatures which will come out and attack you if you threaten their habitat. If Trump knows anything, he knows that any new deal must be set up somehow. You don't just walk in and tell the mob that it has to stand down and vacate the premises. Not unless you want to start a war that is. No, instead you take the mob down bit by little bit, eroding its power until it weakens to the point where removal is easy.
That is what Trump seems to be doing right now. And his actions will tell you what he thinks the boundaries of the swamp are. Each time you hear someone who was part of the old guard complain or tell you that something unusual is being done by Trump, that is where another pump has been placed in order to drain the swamp. Its way too early for me to see the bigger picture that will eventually emerge but Trump is clearly moving some functions up in the hierarchy and some functions down as we read in this CNN piece. CNN's take, of course is that Trump probably doesn't know what he's doing and that he will screw everything up so badly that we will eventually all go running back to the old libguard to save us at some point. Personally, I think not. I think Trump is crazy like a fox and that he is reshaping the power structure of DC to something that he can eventually control. Once he is pulling all the strings then the entire DC apparatus will move in the direction he wants. By commenting negatively on these early moves and before the big picture has emerged it merely shows what an idiot mindless bureaucrat Condi Rice really is or ever was.
Trump's campaign slogan was "drain the swamp" and so that is what we should expect to see him doing if he wants to be remembered as a "do something" president. Draining the swamp is not easy. The swamp is full of nasty scary aggressive creatures which will come out and attack you if you threaten their habitat. If Trump knows anything, he knows that any new deal must be set up somehow. You don't just walk in and tell the mob that it has to stand down and vacate the premises. Not unless you want to start a war that is. No, instead you take the mob down bit by little bit, eroding its power until it weakens to the point where removal is easy.
That is what Trump seems to be doing right now. And his actions will tell you what he thinks the boundaries of the swamp are. Each time you hear someone who was part of the old guard complain or tell you that something unusual is being done by Trump, that is where another pump has been placed in order to drain the swamp. Its way too early for me to see the bigger picture that will eventually emerge but Trump is clearly moving some functions up in the hierarchy and some functions down as we read in this CNN piece. CNN's take, of course is that Trump probably doesn't know what he's doing and that he will screw everything up so badly that we will eventually all go running back to the old libguard to save us at some point. Personally, I think not. I think Trump is crazy like a fox and that he is reshaping the power structure of DC to something that he can eventually control. Once he is pulling all the strings then the entire DC apparatus will move in the direction he wants. By commenting negatively on these early moves and before the big picture has emerged it merely shows what an idiot mindless bureaucrat Condi Rice really is or ever was.
"Entire state dept Sr. mgt team resigns": GOOD RIDDANCE
WaPo reports in dramatic fashion that the entire senior administrative staff of the State Dept just resigned supposedly as "part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era". Wow, how dramatic! And bravo on the nice liberal spin, WaPo. But the truth is that these senior people were part of the corrupt Clinton State Dept. So their exodus is more likely to be their punishment for their parts in that snake's den than as some kind of moral aversion to accepting salary payments from the Trump administration. After all, it seems clear to me that Trump is blowing smoke about not going after Hillary and these corrupt senior state dept criminals will certainly figure prominently in any Clinton era state department investigation done by the new sheriff. Besides, you can't drain the swamp without getting rid of a few snakes.
The WaPo implication is that bureaucrats like this are hard to find, even at over-inflated State Dept salaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. These people have no special skills at all. They are just parasites whose "services" will best be used in another industry such as septic tank cleaning or ditch digging. They are not leaving the state dept because of their own moral convictions but rather because they have either been told to leave or because it has been made obvious to them that they will be better off gone by the time Hillary is indicted. Good riddance I say.
But of course it is easy to make up spin either one way or the other. I know I am right about this so I will put something on the line to back my position. If the new state dept team has really lost anything of value with these exiting bozos then certainly it will show up in the state dept performance going forward. After all, if you remove the wheels from a car, will it still drive smoothly and efficiently? Of course not! It will be a disaster to even try to drive it with major essential components removed. But if all you did was peel a sticker off of the air cleaner and flush it down the toilet then, well, you won't notice anything untoward going forward, will you? So if the new state dept begins in any way to embarrass the USA in any way then I will concede that WaPo's spin was probably correct: these were good people and we have lost something by losing them. But if 6 months or a year go by and nothing bad happens then well I guess WaPo is full of shit (again) in their boring liberal spin on the situation. Fair is fair after all. Even WaPo should be held accountable for its propaganda, errrr, reporting.
The WaPo implication is that bureaucrats like this are hard to find, even at over-inflated State Dept salaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. These people have no special skills at all. They are just parasites whose "services" will best be used in another industry such as septic tank cleaning or ditch digging. They are not leaving the state dept because of their own moral convictions but rather because they have either been told to leave or because it has been made obvious to them that they will be better off gone by the time Hillary is indicted. Good riddance I say.
But of course it is easy to make up spin either one way or the other. I know I am right about this so I will put something on the line to back my position. If the new state dept team has really lost anything of value with these exiting bozos then certainly it will show up in the state dept performance going forward. After all, if you remove the wheels from a car, will it still drive smoothly and efficiently? Of course not! It will be a disaster to even try to drive it with major essential components removed. But if all you did was peel a sticker off of the air cleaner and flush it down the toilet then, well, you won't notice anything untoward going forward, will you? So if the new state dept begins in any way to embarrass the USA in any way then I will concede that WaPo's spin was probably correct: these were good people and we have lost something by losing them. But if 6 months or a year go by and nothing bad happens then well I guess WaPo is full of shit (again) in their boring liberal spin on the situation. Fair is fair after all. Even WaPo should be held accountable for its propaganda, errrr, reporting.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Rosie O'Donnell bandies about "martial law" as if it were so easy.
I've been out on business travel the first 2 weeks of January so I am behind in some of the recent herd happenings. Thus I am just seeing where liberal fool Rosie O'Donnell recently "supported" the imposition of martial law in order to keep Trump from assuming the US presidency.
As you know I am no Trump fan but if anyone had said this for Obama taking office then we all would have been called intolerant racists, blah blah blah. I think most people know just how much of an ass Rosie made of herself with such emotional outbreaks but for those who still don't get it, please consider this: Those conservatives who voted Trump in have all the guns. Those who voted in Obama count on the government for everything and are in large part unarmed and defenseless.
Do you have any idea whatsoever what would have happened had someone been so stupid as to take Rosie up on her idea? Very simply, we conservatives would have started shooting. Additionally, history proves that once the shooting starts there is no reason to stop until there is no more opposition. The target would be loud mouthed liberals who thought that they were going to take over the country using the government as their force mechanism. It's the most ridiculous thing in the world to even consider here in the US. Could it happen someplace else?? YES and it has happened many times that the likes of liberal Rosie have taken over their respective countries using police and military forces. But that game will not play here in the US because we conservative Americans are armed and dangerous and ready to fight in order to maintain that posture. We won't start the trouble but we will damned sure finish it.
I was just out at the gun range on Friday sighting my AR15 in at 250 yards. Without much trouble I could make the center body mass metal target clang 8 or 9 times out of 10. Then I tried the 600 yard targets and could do the same 3 times out of 10. It's not fantastic shooting. In fact it might not be much more than average given the 12 power scope and match grade trigger I am using. And this is with run of the mill plinking ammo, not the good stuff. Anyone who wants to go up against the armed American conservative citizenry is going to face that in battle. Given our numbers advantage and given that at least half of the police and military will side with us, I just don't give those who think they can impose martial law upon us much of a chance of success. As I said before, imposition of martial law for any reason for any time period is an overt act of war against the people and anyone who sees it differently is asking to be enslaved.
Rosie, listen up. The fact that everyone took you for a fool in your call for martial law probably saved your worthless life.
As you know I am no Trump fan but if anyone had said this for Obama taking office then we all would have been called intolerant racists, blah blah blah. I think most people know just how much of an ass Rosie made of herself with such emotional outbreaks but for those who still don't get it, please consider this: Those conservatives who voted Trump in have all the guns. Those who voted in Obama count on the government for everything and are in large part unarmed and defenseless.
Do you have any idea whatsoever what would have happened had someone been so stupid as to take Rosie up on her idea? Very simply, we conservatives would have started shooting. Additionally, history proves that once the shooting starts there is no reason to stop until there is no more opposition. The target would be loud mouthed liberals who thought that they were going to take over the country using the government as their force mechanism. It's the most ridiculous thing in the world to even consider here in the US. Could it happen someplace else?? YES and it has happened many times that the likes of liberal Rosie have taken over their respective countries using police and military forces. But that game will not play here in the US because we conservative Americans are armed and dangerous and ready to fight in order to maintain that posture. We won't start the trouble but we will damned sure finish it.
I was just out at the gun range on Friday sighting my AR15 in at 250 yards. Without much trouble I could make the center body mass metal target clang 8 or 9 times out of 10. Then I tried the 600 yard targets and could do the same 3 times out of 10. It's not fantastic shooting. In fact it might not be much more than average given the 12 power scope and match grade trigger I am using. And this is with run of the mill plinking ammo, not the good stuff. Anyone who wants to go up against the armed American conservative citizenry is going to face that in battle. Given our numbers advantage and given that at least half of the police and military will side with us, I just don't give those who think they can impose martial law upon us much of a chance of success. As I said before, imposition of martial law for any reason for any time period is an overt act of war against the people and anyone who sees it differently is asking to be enslaved.
Rosie, listen up. The fact that everyone took you for a fool in your call for martial law probably saved your worthless life.
Friday, January 27, 2017
My candid advice for Bill and Hillary Clinton
Civil unrest in the US is still brewing and I think the odds are high that at some point it will boil over into armed conflict with the liberals causing most of the problems (as I have predicted all along would be the case - those preaching tolerance and peace the loudest will be the first to abandon these false lie ideals of theirs when the tolerance and peace are not under their terms. Hypocrisy is a wildly liberal trait...). One thing that could trigger a huge uprising would be the conviction and imprisonment of career criminal and traitor Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, it needs to happen as part of the "big heads will roll in order to gain supporter trust" principle.
During his campaign, Trump said many times that Hillary was crooked and that if he had anything to do with it she would be in jail. But shortly after winning the election he walked that back in the face of nationwide riots by sore loser liberals. Many of his supporters saw that as a broken promise. But at the time I suggested the correct strategy would be for Trump to back down on this subject in public while clearing the way behind the scenes for Hillary to be indicted. I wrote, "Trump just needs to stay out of it and let the law do its job. The bad ship Hillary is now taking on water in rough seas and she will break up on the rocks without Trump politicizing her demise. He should just get popcorn and a coke and watch the spectacle with the rest of us.".
Well don't look now but Trump's team is doing exactly what I suggested and you can see it clearly in this video of Trump lying and denying that he wants anyone to prosecute Hillary. He says he wants to move past it but Trump has a shit poker face and an obvious tell. Watch the vid and then look how Trump has to look away from the interviewer and how his eyes go into the "1000 yard stare" as he lies about the whole thing.
Listen to his falsetto tone as he tries to sell the lie to the liberals. He's literally trying to smooth talk them. Compare this act with how he talks about everything else in a direct, in your face matter of fact way. Trump is a shitty liar and he is lying his ass off. As soon as he is behind closed doors he is asking for status on Hillary's upcoming indictment IMO.
Hillary you treasonous bitch: I'm telling you for your own good and the good of this country that you and and that asshole Bill need to pack your shit and leave the USA for a non-extradition country ASAP. DO NOT brazenly think you are just going to talk your way out of an indictment the next time justice comes sniffing around. Your entire support network is in collapse. Obama sold you out. Flee this country while you still can. Your best punishment would be to be persona non grata in every US allied country and to have Snowden type "man without a country" fugitive status (i.e. arrest on sight) in some crap hole non-extradition country.
During his campaign, Trump said many times that Hillary was crooked and that if he had anything to do with it she would be in jail. But shortly after winning the election he walked that back in the face of nationwide riots by sore loser liberals. Many of his supporters saw that as a broken promise. But at the time I suggested the correct strategy would be for Trump to back down on this subject in public while clearing the way behind the scenes for Hillary to be indicted. I wrote, "Trump just needs to stay out of it and let the law do its job. The bad ship Hillary is now taking on water in rough seas and she will break up on the rocks without Trump politicizing her demise. He should just get popcorn and a coke and watch the spectacle with the rest of us.".
Well don't look now but Trump's team is doing exactly what I suggested and you can see it clearly in this video of Trump lying and denying that he wants anyone to prosecute Hillary. He says he wants to move past it but Trump has a shit poker face and an obvious tell. Watch the vid and then look how Trump has to look away from the interviewer and how his eyes go into the "1000 yard stare" as he lies about the whole thing.
Listen to his falsetto tone as he tries to sell the lie to the liberals. He's literally trying to smooth talk them. Compare this act with how he talks about everything else in a direct, in your face matter of fact way. Trump is a shitty liar and he is lying his ass off. As soon as he is behind closed doors he is asking for status on Hillary's upcoming indictment IMO.
Hillary you treasonous bitch: I'm telling you for your own good and the good of this country that you and and that asshole Bill need to pack your shit and leave the USA for a non-extradition country ASAP. DO NOT brazenly think you are just going to talk your way out of an indictment the next time justice comes sniffing around. Your entire support network is in collapse. Obama sold you out. Flee this country while you still can. Your best punishment would be to be persona non grata in every US allied country and to have Snowden type "man without a country" fugitive status (i.e. arrest on sight) in some crap hole non-extradition country.
Normal, nonpolitical black guy discusses his experience at a Trump rally
In a world controlled by fake money, Mammon money, everything is turned on its head. Something that is good is called bad and the other way around. I've cited many examples of this. Debt is good and "indicates the wealth of the country" while thrift and saving is a "paradox". I especially like childish explanations of debt like this one which acknowledge the potential for collapse yet choose to like debt anyhow because for a time it can have positive impacts on the economy. Never mind the fact that when that time ends there is complete chaos, societies are ruined, riots and starvation and massive crime become commonplace. A similar argument can be made for heroin use. It sure feels good until you are hooked and until your pusher keeps upping the price. Then you have to turn to crime to feed your habit and are effectively enslaved by your own free will. In both cases at some point the unsustainable system collapses and the result is far, far worse than if we had just avoided debt or drugs.
Besides all that, gold is thought of as a novelty or even a pet rock while fake paper money rises to the level of importance where people will lie, cheat, steal and murder for it. Government becomes totally infected by it to the point where everything the government says means exactly the opposite. Homeland security really means police state. "Affordable care program" really means massive rise in cost which accompanies massive collapse in benefits. It should now be understood that the pervasive message of tolerance of the liberal left is also a big lie. They are tolerant of what they think will push their destructive agenda but radical and violent when they don't get what they want. There is no better way to demonstrate this fact than first hand accounts from people like this guy who attended a Trump rally out of curiosity and who reported on his findings. It's an eye opener for anyone who is swayed by the fake media and other fake control mechanisms running this show right now.
Besides all that, gold is thought of as a novelty or even a pet rock while fake paper money rises to the level of importance where people will lie, cheat, steal and murder for it. Government becomes totally infected by it to the point where everything the government says means exactly the opposite. Homeland security really means police state. "Affordable care program" really means massive rise in cost which accompanies massive collapse in benefits. It should now be understood that the pervasive message of tolerance of the liberal left is also a big lie. They are tolerant of what they think will push their destructive agenda but radical and violent when they don't get what they want. There is no better way to demonstrate this fact than first hand accounts from people like this guy who attended a Trump rally out of curiosity and who reported on his findings. It's an eye opener for anyone who is swayed by the fake media and other fake control mechanisms running this show right now.
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