Seeing Red

 More not safe to pull on hair below the break.

Human Intel

You know everyone freaks out over "Russian Hackers" picturing a bunch of geeks in a basement mainlining Redbull. What's scarier and more likely are half a dozen "7's" embassy personnel or foreign exchange student's around the beltway with Ashley Madison accounts. What secrets do you really think Washington would have left?

People are the real weakness in any system and given the proliferation of jobs requiring security clearances do we really believe that we've been able to maintain the vetting on all of them. It doesn't matter if someone was happily married, financially stable, and had little interaction with foreign nationals when they took the job what about ten years later?

Just a few happy thoughts as well as things to ponder on a Tuesday.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Libertarianism

Monday Made Me Laugh

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for smallpox below the break, and as always bonus nerd points for recognizing characters.

Friday Fuck-off Open Thread

Dear White-trash Neighbors,

Due to you leaving your dog out to bark for multiple nights, I would like to invite you to Fuck-off pants-less tied over a table in the same room as a horny male Great Dane. Your territorial snarly yap-machines are already part of the reason that the southern view of your own yard is now a privacy fence.

Sincerely your next door neigbor who actually gets up in the morning to work.

The floor is yours angry readers.

Flextime

 More not safe for ligaments below the break.

Seeing Red

 More not safe for coldness below the break.

Late to the Party and All I Brough Was a Sock Full of Nickles to Beat This Dead Horse.

I'd like to start by saying that I'm an unabashed book lover, in fact I consider the destruction of knowledge to be among the greatest of heresy that man can devise. With that said, after reading this and this if my wife hadn't already avoided buying any Marion Zimmer Bradley books because of this I would be putting them on the BBQ grill and soaking them in lighter fluid instead of writing this.

Suffice to say the last several years of Hugollier than thou attitude of the SFWA establishment is laid more bare than ever.

Now this does bring up a small upcoming rant about protecting your children from "grooming", especially in light of credible studies that sexuality isn't something fixed at birth.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Libertarianism

Fantasy Chicks

 Goodstuff laid out a challenge:

theme for the week, if you want to play

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien,

I happened to have a small(ish) collection of amazon women who might be able to kill the wizard quickly enough to not eat a fireball. More not safe for practical armor below the break.

Monday Made Me Laugh

Rainy Days

With all the rain this summer the tractor girls and farmhands seem to be slacking.

Even the dogs seem to be having problems.

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for zombies below the break, and as always bonus nerd point for recognizing characters.

Beware Sirens

 More maritime hazards that you people won't stay away from below the break.

Seeing Red

 More not safe to torch below the break.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Libertarianism

Ever notice that the government is the opposite of competent at fixing problems?

So on the national security front the two biggest parties are giving us a choice of someone who will start lobbing nukes because someone other country's president stayed at the Hyatt resort instead of his and someone who's idea of information security will have the password to the ICBMs being the same as the air shield to planet Druidia. Why are they Libertarians the crazy ones for national security?

Monday Made Me Laugh

Farm Hands

 Until we can get the Asian Farm-girl pipeline going.

Steel Making

Friday Fuck-Off Open Thread

Dear "Touchless" toilet designing ass eaters, if I wanted a bidet before I pooped I would seek one out. Times that you have to poop at work are not the times you want to have to stand back up suddenly because the fucking toilet sensor took you sitting down as you leaving the stall. Also shit-tards this isn't a hygienic because this toilet also flushes the moment that I stand back up before I've had a chance to wipe my ass, and because executives also use this bathroom I have to reach down and push the doubtlessly fucking disgusting little rubber button to flush the toilet paper. Fuck off with a cactus and be forced to use sandpaper to wipe your ass for the next hundred years you incompetent wastes of an engineering degree.

The floor is yours angry readers.

BeCosPlay It's Friday

 More not safe for nosebleeds below the break, and as usual bonus nerd points for recognizing characters.

Stuck In the Middle

 More things we'd rather be stuck between below the break.

Seeing Red

 Clearing out various redhead pics that were orphaned in my pictures folder, some may be repeats or strain normal amount of risque. More below the break.

Hot/Crazy Solution

This is only a temporary solution to this problem.

Doesn't work in the long term.....or so I've heard.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Libertarianism

Monday Made Me Laugh

Or how work goes much of the time.

Friday Fuck-Off Open Thread

The stop sign will not fucking turn even puke green no matter how hard you stare at your cell phone so remove the other one from your ass and drive.

The floor is yours angry readers.

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for this mortal coil below the break, and as always bonus nerd points for recognizing characters.

Imported Cheesecake

 More not safe to ship via container ship below the break.

Seeing Red

 More not safe to touch below the break.

3D Printing A Turbine?

General Electric Aviation, which developed the advanced turboprop (ATP) for the Denali, included a few novel features in the engine to make the aircraft as jet-like as possible. For one thing, a number of the components on the turboprop will be 3D-printed from titanium and steel, eliminating the need to manufacture hundreds of smaller parts.

This could have interesting applications as the technology filters down. You could have less expensive manufacturing of complex and high tolerance parts. Cool stuff.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Libertarianism

The Republicans are selling a world where tall concrete walls topped with barbed wire surround the good God fearing white people of American so they can have sex in the missionary position without worrying about getting their throats slit by the evil barbarians they’re bombing killing.
The Democrats are selling a world where the disarmed populace is entirely at the mercy of the lawless but remain safe from unapproved, dangerous speech and any potential transgression against Mother Gaia, real or imaginary, is punished via summary execution.
The libertarians are selling a world where everybody has the right to snort cocaine off of a hooker’s ass in the middle of a private road while both individuals are wearing nothing but gun belts with automatic Glock pistols in their holsters.
How the fuck are libertarians the ones having a hard time selling people on their ideas?

ht: Bayou Renaissance Man

I seriously wonder if people nowadays have the stones for real freedom. 

Monday Made Me Laugh