Bet That Those Getting Spun Up Over Clinton's Emails will Poo-Poo Trump's Ties to Russia

Apparently Donald Trump's people ran a server that only had one function: Emailing somebody in Russia at a bank with very close ties to Vladimir Putin.

In the computer biz, having a dedicated server to only exchange emails with one other server is kind of like building an office building to function as a single mail drop.

Curious.don

Meanwhile, The Donald is doing what he always does: Stiffing the people who do work for him. I have zero sympathy for Fabrizio. Trump's tactics are well-known. Anyone who does work for him without getting paid 100%, in advance, is a fool.

Protesting

If you're in a group of black folks protesting police brutality, you can expect to have weapons pointed at you, hit with tear gas and pepper spray, have dogs sicced on you and hauled off to jail on flimsy, bullshit charges.

If you're in a group of Indians protesting desecration of sacred sites, you can expect to have weapons pointed at you, hit with tear gas and pepper spray, have dogs sicced on you and hauled off to jail on flimsy, bullshit charges.

If you're in a group of modern hippies, protesting the American Oligarchy, you can expect to have weapons pointed at you, hit with tear gas and pepper spray, have dogs sicced on you and hauled off to jail on flimsy, bullshit charges.

If you're a reporter covering any of that, you can expect to be hauled off to jail on bullshit charges that violate the First Amendment.

But if you're a pack of heavily-armed white guys, protesting the Federal government's administration of its own fucking lands, you're going to get treated with kid fucking gloves and if you get charged with anything, a jury's likely to wink at you and let you go. Because you're going to get a true jury of your peers, something that everyone else will be denied. The prosecutors in any jury trials of the other groups will do their damnedest to ensure that.

This has nothing to do with guns, by the way. If black protestors were openly armed, the cops would hose them down with machine guns. For the Indians, protesting on rural land, they'd have gotten a couple of Cobras or A-10s for that (with WP rockets).

Bet He Loses His Job

Police in North Carolina say a Pizza Hut employee used his own handgun to shoot and kill one of three armed robbers holding up the store.

Over in the UK, wouldn't that qualify as a "workplace fatality"? Or maybe discrimination, for when it comes to citizens killing criminals, criminals are apparently a protected class.

But I digress.

The big boys in Corporate HQs for retail chains and franchise operations hate it when one of their lowest-level minions kills an armed robber. First off, that robber and his peeps might also be customers or even future hires. Second, it is far less costly for Corporate to hire replacements for slain employees than to pay civil litigation defense lawyers.

So expect that the employee who killed the robber will lose his job.

(What, you thought I was referring to this guy?)

The Irony is Almost Palpable, Voter Fraud Edition

A Des Moines woman has been arrested on suspicion of voting twice this month in the general election, police and court records show.

Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony.

Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report.

So, why'd she do it?

According to an Iowa Public Radio report, Rote voted two times for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“I wasn’t planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment,” Rote said in an interview with the radio station before she added an oft-repeated line on the Trump campaign trail: “The polls are rigged.”

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

I Am Going to be Busy for Awhile

Thrift-store find today:

One Thought About the World Series

It's a sad thing that Ernie Banks is not here to see it.

Caturday

Three out of four orange cats prefer to nap in the washroom.

All could use homes, visit your local shelters and adopt a cat.

Every day is Adopt-a-Cat Day.

Apple Thinks Its Customers are Morons

Exhibit 1, this commercial:

First off, the moron is going out to ride his bike in a thunderstorm. That is such a patently bad idea that I see no need to expound further on that.

Second, in dim light with low visibility, the moron is wearing a black riding getup with no reflectivity. He is just asking to be center-punched into the Next World by anything the size of a SmartCar or larger. Hell, if he gets clipped by a large truck, the driver might not even know that a bike-riding moron just died.

What I can see is Apple ending up in court, defending against a wrongful-death suit. One would hope that they lose and lose badly.

Seems as though a lot of marketing people need to be beaten with a clue-bat each morning.

Because It's Friday

Rerailing a locomotive:

It was a lot easier when dealing with HO gauge!

NKP 765 was one of the "Super Power" line of locomotives made by Lima Locomotive Works.