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...Any suggestions re: hosting services where A) you own your own content, and B) you can monetize easily?

A) Any good ISP.

B) HAHHAHAAAHHAAA!!!

(mindfulwebworks.com - 20 years online. Donations of support accepted - you can still be the first.)

Regarding changing minds (again)--

You can't reason with unreasoning, as TMI suggested, but you can do an end-run around their filters.

Like taking lib friends to enjoy shooting. Get one good idea established, contrary to their expectations.

Daughter often talks about dealing with her friends in the 20s-30s age group, and finding ways to suggest how to think about something that leaves them agreeing to what they might otherwise have argued with.

Way I heard it, in a religious context, was, don't try to take error away from someone - try to get the truth in and let truth drive out the error. (Something like that.)

bebe's boobs destroy: What. The. Fuck.

I see a bunch of newbies, and the thread is going sideways. Where are Cochran & DC when we need them?

At first I thought it would be amusing to see troll take-downs, so I popped some corn.

Alas, the butter got rancid-ized from the heat.

qpsteve: ...I like Nevada and Arizona the best. They seem to like Texas and Montana the best....

Split the differences and come to Oklahoma. Gambling at the AmerIndian casinos, like Nevada. Redneck culture just like Texas only with less twang.* In the summer can be (almost) as hot as Arizona. And in the winter, can be (almost) as cold as Montana. Best and worst of all possible worlds.

God bless your Mom with many more years.

(*Gotta admit, for all its faults, Texas gives Oklahoma a run for its money on purty gals. )

Regarding trying to appeal to LGBT liberals, or any regressively politicized faction. You can't get through if the Fundamentals they believe in "explain away" everything you might say.

The ol' saying about a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet? We've seen, a-plenty, that's not true - the rape victims who still support immigration of folks from rapist cultures, for example.

There's a Ted talk (yeah yeah)
This is your brain on communication
https://youtu.be/FDhlOovaGrI
with Uri Hasson, who, amusingly, is not very goodly with the English.

Scans show how brains synch up between speaker and listener. Interesting study.

But, at 11:43 he talks about testing subjects who are told a story, about a man trying to locate his wife, but one group was told that the woman had cheated on her husband, the other was told the husband was just jealous. This one sentence stated before the story was told caused entirely different reactions in the two listeners groups. (Vid explains it better than I'm doing, I'm sure.)

It's a big deal to try to overcome preconceptions - they're m/l hardwired and alter all incoming info.

Anybody else not seeing "Hillbilly Hare"? (Got a copy from YouTube anyway.)

Whatever happens going forward, Ace and the rest of us are made better at what we do by you...

"Whatever happens going forward..." UH-oh! That sounds ominous. What are you not telling us TMI?

So.

Many.

Videos!

Like we had nothing else to do on a Saturday night.

Okay, well, I don't, but, still...

The felines I've known acting as parents are all female, the way farm cats can be, but I have had a male more-or-less adopt a stray kit who wandered in.

The line-up of grays is particularly cute.

(Linked on the blog-heap, of course.)

Goooood Morning, Peoples' Republic of Spades!

Vlad #22: So was the Orlando terrorist gay or have the reports been debunked, or, more likely, have they just been stuffed down the memory hole because, inconvienent?

Perhaps not so much "gay" as whatcha might call polymorphously perverse. IIRC, the 9/11 terrorists were drinking and partying before the event.

Designated Terrorists get a pass on Islamic taboos, it seems. So, Orlando boy could have just been ghey-ing around, among other indulgences, because he could. (Not to say he wasn't gay-curious in the first place, of course.)

cthulhu touched on something like this. Never heard of "a 'Faust'" before, or this kind of deal, but it rings likely:

cthulhu #618 on the ONT http://bit.ly/1V4Zv0B:

I'm coming to the belief that they gave him a "Faust". Sign up with jihadists and you get three years of joy -- you get a wife we provide you, you can sire a son, you get a hajj, you get financial support....and three years from now you do a "martyrdom operation" that forgives you from any depravities you incur in the meantime.

He knew he was marked in 2013. He knew martyrdom was near in April 2016 when he signed his house over to family.

(Being able to pull up stuff like this - one of the few advantages of being an Obsessive-Compulsive blog reader.)

Good night ladies and germs. Be of good cheer. And may the fire ants not infest your dishwasher.

And finally...

Enraged mom didn't like how her son's superhero-theme birthday cake was decorated, tries to re-do it herself, then drop-kicks it across the bakery.

Nice work, Mom. Allegedly.

ComicBook.com
http://bit.ly/1ZXQwTt

Oklahoma Governor stops cops from using their cash-card confiscation technology... for now.

http://bit.ly/1PzgyX7

So... great time to visit beautiful Oklahoma. Blue skies, sunshine, highs in the upper 90s all week long....

New York Times Claims "Romans" Calls For "Execution Of Gays"
Religious illiteracy among journalists is reaching crisis levels.

Amusing listing of NYT religious errors - almost worse than mass media ignorance about guns.

"... Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre..."

Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
http://bit.ly/1UeNdTY

Dangers of wearing big fur hats on hot days
pic c/o War News Updates

(but, notice, he's still rigidly at attention)

http://bit.ly/1ZXP17z

I just liked this headline on IOTWReport

http://bit.ly/1UgVnAv

Mateen Warning Signs Were Flashing With Neon and Sparkles... With Explosions... and an Air Horn

Honduras v Switzerland - guns & homicides

http://bit.ly/1tuKuPs

As long as I'm de-lurked for a bit...

http://bit.ly/1UgVtIz

Goldie Hawn Is Still The Beach Babe Of Our Dreams At 70!

Um... from the picture, I'd say... no.

We'll always have Laugh-In.

Zettai Ryoiki #535 Fu...! I have failed again.

Zet, I noticed that, the other night, after I recommended how to do special characters, you couldn't, but I didn't have a chance to get back to you about it until now.

You appear to be afflicted with anti-Ampersand-itis. I'm not sure if it's a browser thing or what, but some folks just can't use an & ampersand in AoS comments. (I've seen it suggested you turn off javascript; I dunno.) Without that capacity, you can't do the ___; special characters that start with an amperand.

As you've noticed.

Aaaand... Good late evening, folks.

Hi. I'm not first. But I am next. Until the next next.j

Now to go back and see what tmi has posted for us.

One pic was still sideways for me.

Another chance to exercise the recently-learned ctrl-alt-right to view.

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I thought the footnote said it would be a funny story about Leif.

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Seriously, thanks for the travelogue, WD.