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They define online trolling as 'the practice of behaving in a deceptive, destructive, or disruptive manner in a social setting on the Internet with no apparent instrumental purpose.' ... 'Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism....

I've had many thoughts about the JEF, but until now I never realized ... what did his choomster buddies call it when Barry would grab and Bogart the joint? ... anyway, he's still at it: The President is a troll!

"Seen this? http://tinyurl.com/k2jgt2k" -backhoe

The headline says trolls. But the 2nd paragraph says commenters.

"Researchers say that online commenters display traits that are Narcissistic, psychopathic, and sadistic "

How dare they say that about ME! I'll cut 'em....

" I can't wait any longer. ... What I will do is save today's links for tomorrow and add to them. -Vic

But the news will all be old's by then!

How dare Vic have a life!

I summon thee, oh morning thread!
Shake Gabe or Andy out of bed!
We need our morning platform, quick!
For JJ, Poppins, and, 'natch, Vic!

The overnight crowd
Must need a fix
Saturday night
and no six six and six.

C'mon in and sit a spell. -cthulhu

Alas, dear tentacular one, despite the warm invitation, passing through is all I get.

Now to sleep, with dreams of a miraculous alternate-universe computer with an OS where everything smooth as silk autosensed and autoconfigured.

And rural broadband.

Good night, Gracies.

ConservativeMonster, lucky you. I found it grew on me with repeated viewings. Guy is me.

Suddenly, there I was, again, at Ace's Place. You wouldn't believe what I had to go through to get here, and I'll probably have to skip quick.

Remember, friends, we will look back on this and laugh someday.

Instead of just cackling maniacally which is all we can do now.

Who do you post as when you're not being a sock?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Shh. Don't spoil good theater by rustling the program booklet.

There have actually been a few different Mary's, IIRC, but our main "Mary" actually sock-failed a couple of times in recent months - gotta look quick.

"The other cycle we are in is Milankovitch."

I really liked her in Fifth Element.

My understanding is, cosmic rays create cloud cover/cooling. Solar activity creates cosmic rays, so, more activity, more clouds & cooling.

Not just our sun. Every 25,000 years (or so) our solar system cycles near to/far from the cosmic ray influence of a solar cluster, hence more cosmic rays, and ice ages. We're on the heading back / ice age leg for quite some time now.

The contribution of the earth's tilt is ameliorating or exacerbating. So, heading into an ice age with the planet tilted Winterward can mean extra special good times coming up for humanity.

But your wood stove is illegal.

One more thing: Glaciers can form and move at a pace people would not normally consider "glacial." All you need is the ice not to melt over summer a few times. Climate can turn faster than folks understand. heh heh heh

um, Fen?

spreading warmth... message written in snow...

want to hit the Rephrase key?

Ach! Petzfeedin time. AFK

"...I had to post my house as 'surety' to bail her out of jail." -backhoe

Backhoe, you are a true romantic. What a Valentine! You sure know how to woo a gal. May her appreciation prove abundant.

Mary Cloggenstein has apparently been hitting the breakfast Shnappes.

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Thanks as always for your reporting, Vic.

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Imagine I took the time to tap out several pithy and entertaining comments here.

I thought I'd made tech progress when Santa gave me a Bluetooth keyboard for the cell. The day after the warranty runs out, keys stick. It's one thing to have to erase iiiiiiiiiiiiii, but when you write a bunch and then the backspace key sticks, it's throw the toy against the wall time!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL THE ETTES - I LOVE YOU
in an old happily-married guy respectful way.

That is all. Carry on. Good night Gracies.

Time to feed pets, get wife to dance class, and do whatever it is I do today.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. -Reagan

"I got home and realized I had bought nada zip zero for the 8month old." -grammie winger

Isn't 8 months still the "a big cardboard box and a Sunday paper make great gifts" age?

Maybe Ace can 'splain having this guy. -J.J. Sefton

Sometimes I wonder if we really want to know. :/

"Not if the feds keep bailing them out with our money." -Vic

No, you know that just postpones the reckoning. And of course pushes it off on all of us

Also, sad to say, like the drunk who survives the fatal car wreck, the wrong folk get hurt in the meanwhile.

Theology du jour: Just as we like to think of the individual states as laboratories, so are some worlds left more free to chart a course than others. But even for the human race of a whole world, there comes a reckoning....

"I'd rather buy a car from the grandsons of the people who tried to kill my father on Tinian and Okinawa than those cocksuckers in Detroit." -DanInMN

And Putin lectures us about keeping religion and repudiating Communism.

And a fop who isn't qualified to wait tables sits where Reagan presided.

Tomorrow, sunrise in the West...

"Bob Corker (RINO-TN) (ACU 95/82) accuses Cruz of holding up the debt limit sellout vote to line campaign"

a) "It's what I would've done!" think the projectionists.

b) There's an old saying, when a pickpocket looks at a saint, all he sees are the pockets.