((replying to my own comment... so sue me))
"Jesus experienced temptation and persecution throughout his lifetime...."
I would object that we really have no idea what Jesus faced between teaching the elders as a new son of Israel and his baptism, except that folks knew of him as a carpenter. But then I'd be arguing with the Pope, so what do I know?
The Devil does not want people to follow Christ, so he tempts them, and this is not old-fashioned rhetoric because "the Devil is here, even in the 21st century" and we must learn "how to fight against Satan," said Pope Francis during his homily at Mass on Friday in Rome….
"The Devil tempted Jesus many times and Jesus experienced temptation and persecution throughout his lifetime… Maybe some of you might say: 'But Father, how old fashioned you are to speak about the Devil in the 21st century!' But look out because the devil is present! The devil is here, even in the 21st century! And we mustn't be naïve, right? We must learn from the Gospel how to fight against Satan."
CNS via Drudge
http://bit.ly/1n48LWO
Nuke plant wildlife zones. Cool.
But, but but "nuclear". - Vic
Yeah, that stuff's dangerous. If only there was, like, somewhere to put all the waste, you know, like under a mountain or something. Then nuke power would be just about perfect.... too bad...
What? I have some breakfast and get some fresh coffee and there's already dozens of comments? Feel like I lost time there.
Well...
Morning, Glories.
Slow down on the content there, Andy. Leave something for the other bloggers!
chefwes: Reid's China connections have been discussed here. In the comments! 
Also up top on Drudge, or was yesterday. Somebody noticed, quoted in a post, IIRC, that after that news broke, suddenly the standoff stopped. Sheer coincidence.
I was gonna say, Ace's contact info is right there on the font page. But then I looked, front page and post. Hmmm. CDR M's is up top....
OTIH, your tinyurl worked. Congrats.
"In the comments, not the topic"
OHH! You mean the posts? I hadn't really noticed. Sometimes I do read those things, even the ones that aren't ONT. Even Ace's! But they're like when I'm listening to Mark Levin on the radio, and they interrupt him to have "news" from ABC.
I hope you're not saying Ace needs to be more Syrias. Last time that happened....
And the morning news threads have certainly covered this.
"...and like HQ right here, they didn't touch the NV ranch standoff until it was over. Lame-O" -Beyond Disgusted
???
I followed the Nv thing, mostly via right here, often unfolding close to real time.
Just checked out the article about the map up top.
Load. Of. Zombie. Crap.
Oklahoma #25 in survivability, below Calif & NY? With Texas next door? Admittedly, one wouldn't want to be in OKC, but....
"When did Breitbart dot com get bought out by the GOPe?" -Beyond Disgusted
Well, let's see, what day did Andrew die?
Why? What now?
Wow! It's like I've got the whole HQ all to myself.
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b o r I n g
what's that smell?
Don't know how long it's been since I heard thunder. Got a couple of good flashes of lightning and dog-scaring thunder this morning. It's Spring in Oklahoma!
Up soon: Twisters!
So, I woke up.
"Whenever I see squirrels running along the telephone lines i hear the Mission: Impossible theme." -Dr. Varno
And now, forevermore, so shall I.
Evening, folks. Just a drive-by as I head for the arms of Morpheus. Carry on.
Just read the one and only version of Android that's vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug is the one my cell runs.
Great.
Murphy rulz.
HOLD EVERYTHING!
with both hands.
Has AoS seen this, or did I miss it?
#GotBalls? Vote for Bob Quast
http://youtu.be/8Gl7xcy8ILU
c/o Pistol Pete, the Honorary Moron at PoliNation
http://polination.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/petes-pageincoherent-babbling...
Just passing through.
There's always...
♪ ♩
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
♪ ♩
(I really miss Steve Goodman!)
The county is re-asphalting stretches of my 5-mile daily commute. It really is amazing, how swiftly the final top is applied. That's my travel area.
Foreign places, foreigners, crowds of locals, public places, all are cesspools of disease and bacteria and bad attitudes out to git ya.
TSA, militarized highway patrolsoldiers, gas prices, road ragers, drunken invaders, and bandits abounding in our lawlessening world also make travel more adventurous than teasing Smaug.
Virtual travel seems a good candidate for Next Big Thing. Twenty years (maybe?) ago I stood in one of those VR immersion games, belt, helmet, all that. Remarkable for concept proof, lo-res, slo-response & all. And I've "stood next to" and "talked with" a fellow who said he was in China, in Second Life. In a world filled with amazing creations. And attended some live concerts.
As immersion tech gets better, faster, cheaper, home-level, Wal-Mart available, people will travel anywhere, and anywhen, for that matter, virtually, avoiding travel like folks with good home theaters avoid the cinema houses.
Substitute for wind in your hair and smell of salt sea spray? Never. We're not talking Holodecks here. You could get vertigo parasailing virtually, though, without the potential for too hard a landing, and no beach tar or smelly fellow humans being disease vectors.
Bradbury imagined living rooms designed with immersion television walls. At least people together in a room like that could still interact normally. The reality will be people jacked in, in pods.
Hm. I didn't know that would be my destination when I stepped out the door back there.
Think I'll go take a walk. Safe travels, y'all!
Ezra's Equal: Saw wall of text. Almost skipped. Read the whole thing, and glad I did.
"...droopy dog McConnell..." heh.
I never get to travel anywhere anymore. Guess I won't move on to the next post, just fade out with this one.
Love is love and not f a d e
