The Rockford Files was my second favorite show when I was a kid (no. 1 being of course, Star Trek). Every Friday night after I turned 10 I would get to stay up and watch it with my father -- Rockford was his favorite show.
Here is Clint Eastwood praising Garner for his consummate professionalism. (so more like 5 minutes and 46 seconds love, but still)
I kinda lost track of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 2012 after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit enjoined its activities against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. Today I saw this article about how Sea Shepherd ships hunted down a trawler that had been engaged in blatantly illegal fishing since 2006 (and been on Interpol's equivalent of a "most wanted" list since 2013), and chased it some 10,000 miles from December 2014 until April 2015 when the trawler sank (suspected scuttling by its crew).
In the meantime, Sea Shephard's legal battle with the Japanese whalers trundles on in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that last year the International Court of Justice held that Japan's activities in the Southern Ocean were illegal, but that's not going to slow them down much. I mean, we're talking about a government that took $30 million donated for tsunami relief and straight up gave it to the whaling industry.
Governments can't or won't do much about this horseshit, so here's hoping Sea Shepherd continues kicking these criminals' asses.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
After acquiring the sole rights to sell Daraprim, former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli increased the price by 5,500%. Preventing infections in people with weakened immune systems, including AIDS patients and cancer survivors undergoing chemotherapy, Daraprim is a brand-name formulation of the generic drug pyrimethamine....
“Last month, Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, the sole supplier of Daraprim, increased the price of this prescription drug from $13.50 per tablet to a reported $750.00 per tablet,” Baum said Thursday....
Baum continued, “Imprimis is now offering customizable compounded formulations of pyrimethamine and leucovorin in oral capsules starting as low as $99.00 for a 100 count bottle, or at a cost of under a dollar per capsule.”
Sorry Hank, your precious little pills weren't made of Rearden Metal after all.
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Chained out, like a sitting duck just waiting for the fall _Cage the Elephant
A cat who fled Mosul, Iraq, with his human family after ISIS took over was lost in Greece, but has now made it all the way to Norway where the family ended up.
Volunteers working on the island of Lesbos where the cat got lost found it and remembered the family it was with, but didn't know where they had gone. So they put up posters in asylum centres and by word of mouth and Facebook tried to trace them.
It's taken way too long, but the pressure is finally getting to that horrific criminal enterprise known as Sea World:
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This year we will end all orca breeding programs — and because SeaWorld hasn't collected an orca from the wild in almost four decades, this will be the last generation of orcas in SeaWorld's care. We are also phasing out our theatrical orca whale shows.
It'd be nicer if the op-ed contained a definitive statement that SW absolutely will not go back to capturing killer whales in the wild. Also, dudebro deserves a good cock-punchin' for that "if it wasn't for us, you fuckers would hate killer whales" shit. Once he recovers from that cock-punchin', he needs another one for fellating HSUS so enthusiastically. And sadly it appears that dolphins and sea lions won't be getting any relief from SW's predations.
But still, any step in the right direction is welcome.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Normally I'm not at all happy about Google watching what I do and invading my privacy, but today they did something weird that I was pretty happy about. I was writing an e-mail to my insurance agent and forgot to add the attachments before I hit send. A pop-up box came up and said "You typed "I have attached" but you have not attached anything to this message, do you still want to send it?" with the options to send or cancel. I cancelled and added the attachments and was forced to admit that sometimes being spied on by Google is damned helpful.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I've always said that my ideal email client would hold back 'sent' items in a buffer so that they can be edited for a couple of minutes after I press the 'send' button.
I seem to be word blind to the most ludicrous spelling and grammar mistakes until I hit the send button - whereupon I notice them instantly. Plus, of course, it would put an end to all my 'oops - I forgot to attach this' follow up emails.
Normally I'm not at all happy about Google watching what I do and invading my privacy, but today they did something weird that I was pretty happy about. I was writing an e-mail to my insurance agent and forgot to add the attachments before I hit send. A pop-up box came up and said "You typed "I have attached" but you have not attached anything to tis message, do you still want to send it?" with the options to send or cancel. I cancelled and added the attachments and was forced to admit that sometimes being spied on by Google is damned helpful.
It's heartwarming to see new kids on the block, like Gmail, learning to add features that have been standard in the email clients I've used for years.
Thirded on the word-blindness. Especially considering I just fixed a typo in my earlier post.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
Normally I'm not at all happy about Google watching what I do and invading my privacy, but today they did something weird that I was pretty happy about. I was writing an e-mail to my insurance agent and forgot to add the attachments before I hit send. A pop-up box came up and said "You typed "I have attached" but you have not attached anything to tis message, do you still want to send it?" with the options to send or cancel. I cancelled and added the attachments and was forced to admit that sometimes being spied on by Google is damned helpful.
It's heartwarming to see new kids on the block, like Gmail, learning to add features that have been standard in the email clients I've used for years.
STANDARD I TELL YOU.
I don't know when that feature was added, but it's definitely been there for over a year.
Jimmy Fraser was begging on George Street when he was asked for directions by Annis Lindkvist and her sister Emma.
They struck up a friendship during their trip and swapped numbers before flying home to Sagmyra.
Mr Fraser told the BBC Scotland news website: "The next thing I knew I was on a plane to Sweden."
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Mr Fraser flew out on 21 December and returned on 27 December. During the trip he was taken to an ice hockey match, Christmas markets, midnight mass and to meet all Mrs Lindkvist's family, friends and colleagues.
He donated his prize money to the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA USA.
"I chose the United Nations agency for relief and works for Palestinian refugees; $25,000 can feed over a thousand people for a year," Penn told celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay on the show.
Re: Two Minutes Love
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