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steve2470's Journal-49F at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada: something tells me they are staying IN for New Year's Eve....
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ca/watson-lake/CYQHBut hey, it's the Yukon. Maybe a nice cool ride with the sled dogs ? Probably too cold for them.
Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday 2002 (Alex Gold & Oz Dj Mix)
Google And Amazon's Childish Little Fight Is Spilling Into Your Home
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2017/12/31/google-and-amazons-childish-little-fight-is-spilling-into-your-home/#4a78fed06fc8?width=960
When, as kids, we used to get into fights our parents would sometimes suggest that we should have our heads knocked together. Not so much as a threat, but as a way of saying "you guys are both idiots, stop it". In case you haven't guessed, I'm here to suggest that Google and Amazon need their heads banging together, for the sake of their customers.
Google has now removed YouTube access from Amazon's devices, a move it took earlier than planned. Amazon has, once again, delisted Google's products from its store, offering its own and cheap imports as alternatives if you search for, say, Google Chromecast.
The ongoing spat between the two gigantic corporate babies is said to revolve around Amazon's refusal to stock Google's video streaming products like Chromecast, instead hoping to drive more sales to its own Fire TV sticks. Also removed from Amazon's listings, as I write this, are Google's "Home" products, which compete with Amazon's Echo range.
Although, of course, it's only possible to guess that this is the major problem. It's quite possible that the two firms have other differences that aren't widely known to the public. Google told The Verge that this is about Amazon not selling its products, and blocking Chromecast users from using Amazon Video - which in fairness is annoying.
What in the hell is Putin doing in this pic ? Is someone grabbing his finger ?!
https://twitter.com/WZorNET/status/947387437151637504eta: Tineye results here
https://www.tineye.com/search/5641dee226c43aec3eb33892ef3a71e9864315b3/?extension_ver=chrome-1.1.3
eta2: After looking at Tineye maybe it's a Photoshop ?
eta3: Ok I asked the guy what it means. Maybe he will explain it.
Treats you say? Suddenly we are angels now
https://twitter.com/BikeManStream/status/944340022890770432The last days of the Battle of Berlin and Trump's followers....
At 01:00 hours, the Soviets picked up radio message from the German LVI Corps requesting a cease-fire and stating that emissaries would come under a white flag to Potsdamer bridge. General Weidling surrendered with his staff at 06:00 hours. He was taken to see Lieutenant-General Chuikov at 8:23 am. Chuikov, who had commanded the successful defence of Stalingrad, asked: "You are the commander of the Berlin garrison?" Weidling replied: "Yes, I am the commander of the LVI Panzer Corps." Chuikov then asked: "Where is Krebs? What did he say?" Weidling replied: "I saw him yesterday in the Reich Chancellery." Weidling then added: "I thought he would commit suicide."[46] In the discussions that followed, Weidling agreed to an unconditional surrender of the city of Berlin. He agreed to order the city's defenders to surrender to the Soviets. Under the direction of Chuikov and Soviet General Vasily Sokolovsky (Chief of staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front), Weidling put his order to surrender in writing.[46][100]
The 350-strong garrison of the Zoo flak tower finally left the building. There was sporadic fighting in a few isolated buildings where some SS still refused to surrender. The Soviets simply blasted any such building to rubble. Most Germans, soldiers and civilians, were grateful to receive food issued at Red Army soup kitchens. The Soviets went house to house and rounded up anyone in a uniform including firemen and railwaymen, a total of 180,000 and marched them eastwards as prisoners of war.[101]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_in_Berlin
Many of Trump's supporters are like these Nazi troops/forcibly-enlisted old men and young boys and foreign fighters. They fought to the death in 1945 or got captured and later mostly died in Soviet camps.
I have no hope for most of them. It's really sad, for them, and for our country.
Happy New 2018 to all my friends on DU!
22 hours and 36 minutes to go here
My advice:
1- Do NOT go out. It will be insanely crowded wherever you go, full of drunks, very young people and very rude people.
2- If you MUST go out, yea, take a taxi or Uber or Lyft to get home. Would a taxi be a better bet tonight ? I don't know.
3- If you are going to drive no matter what (soberly I hope), for god's sake, don't drive between 11 PM and 4 AM. I've seen some really serious insanely crazily drunk driving then. I'm lucky to be alive.
4- Stay home by the fire (if in GA or further north hehe), have yourself a nice drink or two or three or a nice um chemical!
Let's hope 2018 is much BETTER than 2017 and yes TRUMP-FREE, Gawd/Allah/Buddha/Abraham/the Universe willing!
"Can't win a piss fight with a skunk", ever hear that from your parents ?
When I became politically aware in 1972, Watergate was beginning to rage away. I lived in the middle-sized town of Orlando, then newly famous for WDW and long a citrus industry town/center. Accordingly, the Orlando Slantinel (officially called the Sentinel but you get my drift) was VERY right-wing and very supportive of Nixon.
I would read the Slantinel and get apopleptic with rage over their selective coverage and their editorials and columnists (mostly conservative but not all). So, like any good teenager on a mission, I would write my LTE. Several of them.
I complained vigorously to my dad, who in exasperation one day said, "Son, you can't win a piss fight with a skunk." I knew immediately what he meant LOL, and quietly resolved to stop wasting my time.
My dad rarely said things like that. He was pretty religious in the old-school Episcopalian (easter and sunday boys ya'll) way, so it was a surprise hearing that come from him!
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