August 6, 2017

What's up with Google Earth?

I have/had Google Earth on this laptop for several years. It worked fine and I used it regularly to snoop around and measure distances etc. Suddenly, about 3 weeks ago it quit working...would not boot...nothing. Then tried to download it again etc. Nothing working.

I read that Google discontinued the support and program and there were others offering similar programs.

Is there anything to this or is it just my own problem? If I need another program which is best?

August 3, 2017

Is the Transgender in the Army thing over with already?

Was that just Trump sleeptweeting or what?

August 3, 2017

Tell the Senate: Torture memo author Steven Bradbury has no place in government

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/steven_bradbury?sp_ref=323665161.4.181748.f.579940.2&referring_akid=.800173.lUYzBC&source=fb_share_sp


During his time in the Bush administration, Steven Bradbury gave the legal thumbs-up to a harrowing list of torture methods – waterboarding, nudity, striking prisoners, exposure to extreme temperatures, dousing with cold water, sleep deprivation for more than seven days, cramped conditions and using these tactics in combination.2 While the military has a longstanding prohibition on torture, Bradbury concluded its policies didn’t apply to the CIA.3 His decisions were later overturned, and the Department of Justice’s ethics office would later issue a report citing "serious concerns about some of his analysis."4

Trump might think the public won’t notice if he sneaks Bradbury into an agency mostly unrelated to his prior work. But this attempt to rehabilitate Bradbury and allow him back into public service is not acceptable. No one who promotes and defends torture is qualified to work in our government.

In fact, Bradbury's 2008 nomination to serve as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel was blocked by senators because of concerns with his role in torture and surveillance and whether he could be sufficiently independent of the White House.5 The Senate needs to use their confirmation power again to make sure torture promoter Steven Bradbury is never in a position of government power again.

Tell the Senate: Block and resist Trump’s nomination of torture policy architect Steven Bradbury.

July 11, 2017

Would Trump's plan to punish/kill family members of Terrorists really work?

Now that the FBI will be going after Trump Jr. we will have a chance to see if a strategy like that has any legs.

Will Trump resign to protect his son? Might be it's too late for that.

Might be Trump couldn't care less about his son.

June 30, 2017

Read this New Yorker article to understand Trumps gutter mind.

David Pecker of the the National Enquirer is Trump's good friend and the two of them are peas in the pod when it comes to appealing to the very base of the American mind.

Here's one quote to give you an idea of the mindset:

" For Pecker, the Tiger Woods story encapsulates the grim ethos of Enquirer readers. "Do they care about Tiger Woods? No, " Pecker said. "Do the play golf? No. But do they want to read about his indescretions? Yes. Do they want to read that someone who is that successful is now failing? Yes. These are people that live their life failing, so they want to read negative things about people who have gone up and then come down."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-national-enquirers-fervor-for-trump

June 24, 2017

What should Planned Parenthood do if AHCA passes?

Here's my idea, have at it:

Planned Parenthood should immediately give all their assets to a new corporation named, for example, Family Planning. Family Planning then continues to do all the work Planned Parenthood has been doing and collect all the federal dollars due them as health providers to Medicaid beneficiaries as Planned Parenthood has been doing for years. If the bill singles out Planned Parenthood in particular, avoiding the hex on that group should be pretty easy. If the bill doesn't mention Planned Parenthood in particular, but rather says any group that provides abortions even if not paid for by the federal government (Hyde Amendment) then let the two corporations operate in the same facilities but Family Planning would not provide abortions but rather sub that out to Planned Parenthood.

This, if nothing else, would tie up the courts for years.

Here's some background reading on the battle over Planned Parenthood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/us/politics/planned-parenthood-health-care-abortion.html?action=click&contentCollection=health&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Fahca-american-health-care-act-repeal-obamacare

I say play the Corporation game and play it smarter if that's what they want.

June 21, 2017

Democrats need to ask the question: Why don't people vote?

In the Ga. -6 election yesterday, where 50 million dollars were spent mostly on TV lies, a whopping 46 percent of registered voters turned out in early and election day voting. People were amazed at such a high turn out for a off year election. The election was determined by a 2.8% margin or about 6800 votes. That's 1.3 % of registered voters.

Democrats need to turn away from wasting time and money trying to turn Republicans into Democrats and instead give the missing 54% who stayed home a candidate they find attractive enough to bring them to the polls. Where are the surveys asking the "Did not vote" citizens what they are looking for? Is it because they don't see a candidate they like or because they figure either candidate is OK enough? Maybe they think there is no difference or is it that they think no one can change the way the country is going? Do they like the status quo well enough and are happy to just take whatever the rulers hand out?

I'll wager a Democratic candidate that brings a different more radical message would tap into the missing voters and not loose a single normally Democratic voter. This holds for districts across the country. In the recent 2016 presidential election, a turnout of 10 million more voters could easily have won the election for the Democrats. That is only about 7% of the "Did not vote" count. We're talking registered voters here, not even concerning ourselves with those knocked off voter roles because of Republican efforts with Crosscheck, Voter ID's etc.

Let's support candidates that target the majority of Americans who now don't vote, probably because they feel so hopeless.

June 7, 2017

What's the background to Trump's Air controller idea?

I don't remember any talk about this during the campaign. Was he reading about Reagan's election in 1980 or something? Seems very odd.

June 3, 2017

Truth is, Trumps plan to use Tweets to get around the Press is working fine.

If this was a normal presidency, the press would be carefully screening everything coming out of his mouth to try and preserve at least some respect for the office. Just as FoxNews is now doing. The speeches would be cut off so you wouldn't get the craziness and the aides would be brought in to make sure you didn't have to listen to the man himself.

Now we get Trump unedited. Tweeting about the absurd. Misspelling and using poor English...the whole ball of ugly wax. No need for Shields and Brooks, we can all see Trump is off his rocker, missing marbles with loose screws and it's all direct from the horse's ass.

May 29, 2017

Does any other DUer use Yahoo Mail? Having trouble.

Things have recently changed and simple emailing tasks are no longer simple. For example: forwarding an email to a list of contacts is not working as the address box doesn't recognize my lists' names....or something.

Wonder if any one else is finding trouble.

I thinking there are people at Yahoo unhappy with being bought out by Verizon and they are making things bad so people shift to other email sites (Gmail). I've been with Yahoo for years...hate to have to change my address and figure out how to get my contacts and lists of contacts shifted to new outfit.