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|Geist's budget Neural Archive was on the fritz again.
So, just what is Neural Archive?
Spurred into digital action by the calculating Great Mind behind the Vircades Project, this will be my little pixel-stash of the splinternet, where I get to write nonsense about things relating to cyberpunk gaming. There will be musings, characters, technology, random thoughts and more, for dark future science fiction roleplaying games.
|Entertaining Geist since 1990.
Neural Archive will be focussed primarily on R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020 and it's contemporaries, but also (occasionally) such games as Stars Without Number, Traveller, Star Wars D6, with perhaps a soupçon of the very best bits of the OSR fantasy gaming scene. Possibly.
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It's been almost 2 weeks since my last post after trying out Standard for the first time in almost a year. In that time I've gone through 2 FoW Locals, acquired a surplus of new cards and completed a collection I'd been working on. This post will appear somewhat scattered-brained so I apologize in advance.
FoW Locals Two Week Review
I've continued to force Grixis Seer of the Blue Moon (Kaguya 1.0).
On 4/17/16 my win condition was to drop a Lucifer and ride it to victory.
Round 1
Loss 0-2 to Sylvia Aggro
Round 2
Win 2-0 over Reflect Fairies
Round 3
Draw with Esper Shion after never finishing Game 1
On 4/24/16 my win condition was to attrition my opponents until I could drop a huge Servant of Kaguya
Round 1:
Win 2-0 over The Observer
Round 2:
Loss 0-2 to Blazer Split Heaven and Earth Turbo
Round 3:
Loss 1-2 to Slyvia -> Melgia Aggro
It's been a long grind trying to find a build of Seer that can beat J/Ruler decks (the bane of my existence). I still love Seer and for that reason I'll be fairly sad when her cluster rotates now sooner than expected.
Reaction to Each TCG's Recent Changes
FoW has announced that starting in June, their AGP circuit will be using Alice Cluster cards only. This means that all of the cards from Grimm Block will no longer see competitive play. It feels almost akin to the Yugioh Adjusted List where the game thinks that stores will not honor the changes made by the competitive level and continue to play the older sets. At first I was indifferent though I'm a tiny bit upset that I might not be able to play my favorite ruler at locals. Among my playgroup though I don't expect much change so I'm not really troubled by it. Still the actual rotation was supposed to occur in September of this year so it's awkward (especially since the 4th Alice block set has been delayed).
Now that being said rotation is both a blessing and a curse. As it's probably gone without saying at this point I hate Reflect/Refrain. I feel it's an overpowered card that shouldn't be this strong due to the depressing tiny role that the character has had in the story (UNLESS I'M MISSING SOMETHING). It just really upsets me that the strongest characters in the actual card game are pretty much unimportant to the lore. I've read every card in TTW and all I can tell about R/R is:
- They have no clue why they're here or what they're doing (Taken from Rewriting Laws)
- They don't know how to solve the problems in front of them (Taken from Wall of Ideas)
- They have a lot of power, but they haven't shown it (Taken all of their basically never played support resonators)
Rotation might now R/R down a peg by taking away the key pieces from the most of the recent top decks namely Alice World. Now the curse is that most of my and everyone's cards now suddenly become useless outside of casual play. This is why I quit Standard. Don't misunderstand me now, rotation is healthy for a card game (sorry Yugioh), but when you actually play the game its stinks to have the cards you invested in lose their value.
Anyway moving on…
Wizards of the Coast in recent news have cut the Modern Pro Tour and with it the appearance fees of the pro magic players. As a Yugioh player being upset about the company that makes my game is pretty much a daily occurrence. For that reason it's rare for me to be able to chastise WoC for making a huge mistake. They've essentially made it impossible for players to make a professional career from playing Magic. Now to play devil's advocate maybe there's some merit to this, but in the short run all it's down is upset the community. To be honest I'm certain WoC (like Konami) only cares about making money. Standard makes them the most money so its natural that they only wish to promote that format. However, while cutting modern is a somewhat saddening move, reducing the appearance fees of the pro seems like it will deter people from playing the game. Worse than that doing it out of the blue feels like a major breach of trust to the players who've worked hard for their game.
That being said, it doesn't affect me in the least other than increasing my already strong desire to flip my modern elves deck (though this is a topic for its own post).
I finally completed my collection of all the Grimm and Alice block J/Rulers!
It's been a goal of mine since starting this game to get all the J/Rulers. I drew the line at the Valhalla ones (due to their being rare and expensive), but all of these are a joy to have. I really like the lore from the Grimm and Alice block (which is what keeps me in this game honestly after I gave up on playing R/R).
In addition to that I've been building Mono-Black Spirits EDH and just recently picked up 2 new yugioh deck cores.
I'm changing my goal now from making yugioh anime decks to making every iconic yugioh deck that stopped being meta (and thus became dirt cheap).
My relevant decks box, where I hold the strongest decks I have and even then they're not that powerful anymore. What keeps me in Yugioh is a love for the show and for collecting cards to build honestly underpowered decks. I love grind games, I love matches that take time and I love player interaction. Modern yugioh has become too much about lockout and OTKs for my taste. This could be the time to discuss my creation of the Yugioh "Jank" format, but that too deserves its own post.
Anyway I've rambled on for awhile now. Thanks for reading as always.


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nokia will launch a line of wireless-enabled security cameras in july that will reply to text-messages with images captured moments earlier. by wireless-enabled i don't mean some 802.11 strain, bluetooth, or even rf–i mean cdma or gsm. these cameras, when fitted with sim cards from at&t or t-mobile, will have phone numbers. nokia is calling it "m2m," or "machine to machine" communications, and is hoping it will spark a whole new market for its wireless terminals. the wireless data research group expects this to be big business, reaching us$28 billion a year by 2007, attracting businesses wishing to skip the wiring stages of security installation. i used to wire homes and businesses for security, and i'll tell you this is a godsend. the nokia observation camera will likely sell for between $350 and $400. read more at cnet.
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|camera (9:57am est thu apr 17 2003)
wow! – by eric
|sweet (10:17am est thu apr 17 2003)
sweet – by eyad
|re: wow/sweet (10:31am est thu apr 17 2003)
question is, why would you want to pay to view static images when you can look at a dynamic webcam for free??? – by krypto
|billing concerns. (11:09am est thu apr 17 2003)
i hope this doesnt make them do away with free nights & weekends when people start leaving them connected from friday night to sunday night. – by i need my minutes
|re: krypto, need-my-minutes (12:05pm est thu apr 17 2003)
if i'm on the go, how can i check my webcam? i need an internet terminal (with a respectable connection, i might suppose). sure, if you're only gonna use it while you're at work, you can probably just setup a webcam for much cheaper… but that's not everybody. eventually however, as portable devices (cellphones/pdas) get better web access & browsers, this tech might be more pointless since you can stream webcam video straight to wherever you are. but in the meantime…
and as for concerns over minutes, from what i understood it only replies to a sms. therefore, if you want a "screenshot" you "request" it with a sms. it's not using it's line all the time! – by eyad
|flipmode (1:23pm est thu apr 17 2003)
i wonder how big the data pipe is for a gsm network? – by far
|about time (2:48pm est thu apr 17 2003)
a friend involved in the development of the videophone for orange has an interesting story about just what happened to the hardware developed.
it seams that the only buyer of the videophone was none otehr than the metropolitan police in london. they took the phones and had them placed in boxes made to look like a standard alarm. now when the police have a large public order event to control they place the alarms in areas not covered by the fixed cctv system.
they then use a control van parked in a sidestreet to control and capture the images!
so it now looks like there will be a consumer version, in the us at least.
|important (4:06pm est thu apr 17 2003)
the real question is, how can we use this to get porn? – by dj jedi jeff
|inside job (4:22pm est thu apr 17 2003)
nokia should be making dildo cams that we can dial in to without the subjects knowledge… – by rummyco
|security? (3:24am est sun apr 20 2003)
i think this system is not so reliable as there are in the market (free for sale) gsm disturbers or gsm blockers.
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I shot this on the day before Thanksgiving, but things got pretty hectic right after that, so I'm just getting around to posting it now.
Just another (yawn) shot from the front porch on yet another cloudy day, but I really liked the way the red deck paint popped out on this one, as well as the cloud/fog formations in the hills on the Washington side of the river.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
A Sydney Crime
A day or two later we were about to go back into the same shop for a pair of scissors, and there was ruckus inside. The shop owner had hold of a woman's arm who promptly dropped to the floor and started screaming out that she had been assaulted. After some verbal back and forth, the woman left the shop. It transpired that she had stolen multiple items from the shop and was now trying to return them and redeem them for cash. The owner called the police and told them the story and from what we heard, the police took it quite seriously.
Although there was a cctv, we heard the owner tell another customer who witnessed what happened that the system did not record. He told it was so easy to set up using her computer behind her counter.
It was an interesting little diversion for us, but gee, what some people in small business have to put up with.
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I suppose we forget about the risks the smaller shopkeeper has to cope with when running a business. Don't think I would like to be in charge of a shop on my own.ReplyDelete
I suspect it is all too common. Which is sad and bad.ReplyDelete
Happens a fair bit, but when I worked in the newsagency the owner said if it happens while I was in the shop alone do not try to stop it as it's not worth being injured for and all stock was insured but we had a button to press if he was out back so he could handle it his way never needed to do it.ReplyDelete
We have the same trouble in supermarkets with people nicking stuff then trying to return the items for a "refund", stating they've lost their receipt. The difference there being more people in a supermarket, a single checkout operator in one of those small shops would have reason to worry if such a fraudster became violent. They need to have working video cams!ReplyDelete
I could tell you something else the low-life opportunists try, but I don't want to put ideas in the heads of any potential thieves who might be reading here.
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or: How to go from Willy Wanker to Billy Badass in 1 Easy Step
(Note: I know there are more than a few guys at work who opened this blog, saw the title of this post, got extremely embarrassed and closed the browser as soon as possible. Sorry guys, but sometimes you gotta eat a little shit. If HR comes by to have a talk with you you can look the Devil in the eye and see what you've sold your soul to.)
We could be PC and pretend masturbating and internet porn don't exist, but they do. And there is a very big problem with internet porn. Internet porn is a succubus whore from Hell intent on draining you of your vital seed, your testosterone, your energy, and your desire to succeed and conquer.
Or, to put it mildly, masturbating to internet porn does not do a body good. Internet porn is like a drug addiciton. The access to endless variety of porn causes you to constantly search for the "perfect" scene. This leads to massive overstimulation of the brain, the overstimulation causes a dopamine (dope) release into the brain (your fix).
After you have an orgasm it's like coming down off a drug. After all that excitement, that endless stimuli for the brain, your body just shuts off and you turn into a lazy piece of shit. How many time have you been about to do something, decided to just have a "quick one", and by the end 30 minutes later had no motivation to do anything? I already know the answer: a lot.
Here are 10 reasons to stop masturbating to internet porn:
1) Internet porn saps you of precious energy – When you give up the porn and the endless masturbation sessions you have a lot more energy and drive. You want to get out and take care of business. You want to make money, you want to hit the weights, and you want to go and talk to that cute little blonde in the cereal aisle – and you just may have blueballs enough to do it.
2) Internet porn can lead to erectile dysfunction – Keep at it and eventually you will only be aroused by internet porn. Right now guys in their TWENTIES and even guys in their TEENS are having trouble getting hard without porn. They have to keep finding more and more disgusting and outrageous porn scenes to satisfy their hunger. Eventually nothing will do it but seeing a naked black man buttfucking a dog. That's serious business. Keep up with the porn and it will happen to you too.
3) Internet porn will make you want to stop having sex – Why bother with sex when you have every fantasy in the world available at one of your hands? Japan is a notoriously porn friendly country. Japan is saturated with porn. In Japan there is an entire culture of young guys called "Herbivores". These herbivores have no desire for sex. All this porn and now the guys don't want girls, they want sex with their hand, or sex with robots or nothing at all. Japan now has the lowest birthrate in the world. Can you see the connection?
4) After you stop masturbating to internet porn your voice may become deeper – Straight from the horses mouth, this is what guys who have stopped masturbating are saying happens.
5) After you stop masturbating to internet porn you will have more self control and will power – I'm telling you from personal experience you just plain feel better and stronger and more masculine. It's the opposite feeling after masturbating to internet porn.
6) After you stop masturbating to internet porn your Testosterone will rise – According to this article, Testosterone is slightly higher when abstaining from orgasm. And it does rise slightly during sexual activity—before dropping back down to normal. Having sex with a real life girl increases your testosterone while having sex with your hand and sitting in front of a computer with 5 different pages open decreases it. I don't need a science article to tell me that, I know it to be true from experience.
7) After you stop masturbating to internet porn you will become calmer, more rational, and less anxious – Again, straight from the horses mouth. Check out the link below to see all the positive results guys are getting.
8) You will become more attractive to women – Let's assess the situation. Who do you think women find more attractive?
A) Guys who spend their time in the dark, jacking off to endless streams of porn, finish after about an hour, take a nap, finally make it out in the sunlight (or not) and can't even look them in the eye.
Or B) Guys who don't spend their time playing with themselves for hours, are full of testosterone, not having spilled their precious seed twice that day, have a deeper voice, and have the ability to make eye contact. Easy answer.
9) You can stop getting viruses on your computer- Viruses are a pain in the ass and can sometimes take days to deal with. Most computer viruses come from porn. Eliminate the source, eliminate the virus.
10) If you can't believe me, then take the word of these gentlemen who beat their addiction to internet porn and reaped the benefits – There are 90 pages worth of positive results. I've only quoted from the first few pages:
- "I really like where I'm at now. I am so much calmer. I am losing my rage and anger which I am glad about. I have found out that the temper I had was linked to this addiction."
- "Social anxiety was the problem I faced right from my childhood. (I was too much interested in science, unlike normal kids, so I always had a feeling that I was not "one of them.") I experienced huge improvement in my confidence and selfassurance since cutting out porn. I have more energy now and I am exercising daily. (I never did before.) I now perceive myself as a self-assured, successful guy, rather than some introverted jerk."
- "Daily exercise and porn abstinence really seem to help. I am enjoying my new lifestyle now. In contrast, after I started watching porn, my social anxiety was boosted."
- "I've noticed the longer I stay away from porn that it's easier to talk to them [women], flirt and get into conversations."
- "One week after quitting porn and masturbation I met a new girl, which even a month ago would have been unimaginable to me".
- "Another thing is the extra attention I'm getting from the opposite sex. I've never really had a problem talking to girls and they've spoke to me in the past of course, but it's incredible how often girls start random conversations with me now! At a recent wedding I went to, for example, there were few people on the dance floor and I decided to get up and have a dance with my aunties. Then all of a sudden I was surrounded by women who were all grabbing me and wanting to dance with me! I'll be honest; it felt good to have that attention!"
- "It's amazing how much of a difference there is. I'm a lot less nervous, more coherent, confident, everything. It really does feel like my real personality can come out."
- "The effect on my social life keeps getting better. I'm finding it really easy to talk to people, especially women. Someone made a comment to me the other day at my salsa class. Something like, "You like to talk to the ladies, don't you?" I didn't even notice because I was having so much fun but, when I think about it, he was right."
- "[Later] I started doing push-ups at work with some of the guys. When I started out I was at like 15 push-ups, and I was struggling. Well today is the first time I have been able to do them with these guys since I have gone 60 days with just a couple orgasm/ejaculations. They were shocked at how many push ups I could do. They all commented on not seeing anyone increase from where I was at about 2 months ago to what I am at now. Today I did 200 (not all at one time ). Maybe not superman but a big improvement in a couple months."
- "The other is the way I carry myself. I walk with more confidence. I feel better about myself. I do not feel like isolating myself as much as I did in the past. Well actually the longer I go without porn the more the desire to be with a woman is increasing."
- "[Later] Today is day 50 without porn. My body has healed very well. NO ED problems or weak ejaculations like I suffered from just a few months ago. So giving up porn and fantasy and going without orgasm (mostly) for just this period of time has made big steps in healing the damage I had done to myself. I also learned that I have gone far enough that I can recover my peace of mind a little more easily after an ejaculation."
- "When I do semen retention for 2 weeks, I notice these benefits: 1) Face looks radiant and energetic (I may get occasional double glances from girls in shopping mall or street) 2) Expression looks carefree (not struggling for more energy, or not worrying about negative stuff) More natural confidence without needing to adjust thoughts. 3) Voice gets deeper and more charming (This, strangely, makes both men and women like to talk with you.) 4) More positive thoughts (The negative thoughts that used to bother seem so minor and irrelevant – I can 'get over' issues easier.) 5) More calm emotionally and easier to control myself 6) Exponential increase of stamina and physical energy/strength."
Sounds like the guys quoted above had other social problems in addition to porn addiction, but even for the Average Joe quitting porn and masturbation has real benefits. Keep your precious seed for yourself. Don't give it away every few hours while taking the drug of internet porn.
Let the confidence and the testosterone build up inside of you instead of spilling it every day. And when you do give it away, give it to a girl and not a kleenex. Winners don't spend their time jacking off. Of this I am sure.
Try it for 30 days and see for yourself.
You may just like the results.
I know I do.
More resources: http://yourbrainonporn.com/understanding_porn_addiction


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Simple Curve
Simple Curve
Release Date: 5/22/2007
Caleb is 27, and was raised in the majestic Kootenays by his bush hippie parents. He loves his father Jim and understands his reverence for wood working, coriander and Soya products, but he just doesn't get Jim's determined effort to achieve economic disaster at every turn. His father is a relentlessly unsuccessful business man, and as the junior partner in their carpentry shop, Caleb is powerless to stop the fiscal self sabotage. When Matthew, an old friend of Jim's, arrives in the valley to develop a high-end fishing lodge, Caleb sees fortune looming, provided he can keep his father distracted long enough.
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Friday, 15 January 2016
R.I.P. David Bowie
11 comments:
At least you are still here,so pleased.
- 16 January 2016 at 20:56
- edgar broughton said...
Thank you for those very kind words.
- 18 January 2016 at 03:02
Great pictures and poignant words. Your recollections of a past age are always interesting Rob.
- 18 January 2016 at 10:28
There he was on Top of the Pops much to my Father's bemusement as to how this man in a silver suit was in any way musical. My Mother was more amused than bemused. It seems like only yesterday but my parents & David Bowie are now gone. Life is a bit like musical chairs - the music stops - someone we know or believe we know or have a connection with dies - a chair is removed & off we go again. Live every moment don't try & live with one hand on the chair, don't wait for the music to stop to do something amazing.
Never a Bowie fan but he was somebody from my youth so his passing reminds me of my own mortality. He was a great talent; a storyteller. Man Who Fell To Earth was for me Bowie's finest hour.
- 20 January 2016 at 00:19
- Frogspawn said...
Ironically I've literally just sent an e-mail about EBB and Brighton before seeing this.
Some more details of the gig with Bowie:
He played three numbers, acoustic. The only one confirmed is 'Space Oddity', though I'm pretty sure one of the other two was 'Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud'.
The band that overran was Success - two drums, two guitars, two bass, no vocals. Dreadful, out of time and ponderous, they never played again. The whole gig was set up to launch them by their manager Mike Clayton, who owned the record shop Exspantion and previously managed The Mike Stuart Span.
Others on the bill: The Strawbs, Steamhammer, Heaven and The Fox, who weren't mentioned on the handbill. Jeff Dexter played records and introduced the bands.
You forgot to mention that when the power was turned off most of the audience ended up on the stage during the 30 minute 'Out Demons Out'. That didn't impress the Council either. A good friend at the time ended up with his hands and arms swathed in bandages after he slashed them to pieces bashing one of the cymbals throughout.
- 20 January 2016 at 13:52
- edgar broughton said...
Fascinating! You have reminded me of some stuff I had forgotten. I do remember the audience on stage which was quite a frequent happening at EBB gigs back then and for a long time after then.
Re your mail. Very happy to do an interview about Brighton free concert etc. I'll be in touch in a day or so.
- 22 January 2016 at 17:10
- alan in southampton said...
I can remember about seven of us all piling into a VW Beetle and heading to Brighton for an EBB gig back then but having read the comments from all above it wasn't this one! Checked this out and it was the 19th Nov 1969 - a mere 46 years ago!
Nice words REB about David Bowie.
I do not have any of his stuff but I always thought of him as a great showman and innovative in style and I always thought there was a kind of nervous energy in a lot of his work.This is no less evident in his final album (and Videos) which I find compelling but also difficult to watch.
- 25 January 2016 at 16:21
- Steve Broughton said...
So now you know I was there Rob tee hee!x
- 12 February 2016 at 16:54
- Potty-Pott said...
R.I.P. Ziggy, Lemy and now Keith Emerson, all rock legends!!!
- 15 April 2016 at 22:35
- Blam said...
Hi Edgar. Do you know who it is on the far left of that first Ziggy party pic? Blam.
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There was a fantastic running sketch on the great "Key and Peele" show on Comedy Central about Luther, Barack Obama's "anger translator."If you don't remember it, Luther served as a stand-in for Obama's rage, poking fun at the fact that Obama is so even-keeled all the time, and that he never lets himself get angry. Luther, therefore, was there to say what Obama couldn't.
It was a hilarious sketch. But it's not really needed anymore, sadly, because President Obama has just about reached his tipping point. And he's really freaking pissed. Maybe what put him over the top was the vulgar, talking yam Tweeting just after the worst mass killing in U.S. history, bragging about how he was right to propose banning all Muslims, and calling for Obama to resign.
(Quick aside: Isn't it interesting how Republicans always blame Democrats for "politicizing" a tragedy by calling for stricter gun laws after a mass killing, yet after Sunday's tragedy their Presidential nominee immediately made it a political issue, and no one on the right seems bothered by that? F'ing infuriating.)
Whatever it was, Tuesday afternoon our President gave a stinging rebuke of hatred and intolerance. I encourage you to watch his whole speech embedded above, but if you only have time for a part of it, watch the five-minute clip I've embedded above.
It's powerful, it's important, and it's the voice of one man saying "Enough!" Stop!" You are killing people with your insane, racist rhetoric. You think you're being entertaining and firing up a mob, but you're actually dangerous, incompetent, and causing more hatred toward America.
Enough. E-fucking-nough.
**Next, someone who actually took the time to memorialize and think about the victims of this tragedy, instead of shamelessly using death to promote an agenda. Anderson Cooper spent seven minutes at the start of his show Monday night, reading the names of the 49 people killed in the Orlando massacre, and giving a few small details where he could about each of their lives.
I found this incredibly compelling; the few details like "he always had a smile on his face," about one guy, and "she always was such a hard worker" about another give you just a tiny insight, but really go a long way.
Cooper, who is openly gay, chokes up several times reading this. But it's incredibly important that he did it, and I urge you to watch if you can, emotionally.
These were people, not political pawns.
**Finally today, wanted to end on a lighter note, after all this sadness. The NBA Finals are still going on, which means ESPN/ABC are doing all kinds of cross-promotion, which gave us this hilarious Jimmy Kimmel "Generation Gap" sketch last week, wherein 1970s NBA legend (and insanely bad dresser) Walt "Clyde" Frazier went head-to-head in a trivia game with current NBA star Anthony Davis.
It gets better as it goes along; poor Walt, he just couldn't keep up. The "Welcome Back, Kotter" question did crack me up…


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NBC apologizes for, deletes "Our president" Oprah tweet
NBC/Paul Drinkwater(NEW YORK) — Oprah Winfrey's acceptance speech for winning the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday night's Golden Globes was inspiring, but NBC's social media reaction to the moment drew boos from many online.
The network has just deleted its tweet, which pictured Winfrey and the caption: "Nothing but respect for OUR future president."
The caption had its share of detractors, including Donald Trump Jr.
"In case anyone had any doubts about where the media stands, this should take care of it," the actual president's son tweeted afterwards. "The bias against @realDonaldTrump is now so obvious they have simply given up hiding it."
He wasn't alone in his criticism, and NBC apparently got the message.
In a tweeted statement, NBC blamed the Oprah-boosting post on a "third party agency," noting that the caption was "in reference to a joke made during the opening monologue and not meant to be a political statement…"
In his opening monologue, host Seth Meyers joked that his comments at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011 about Donald Trump being unqualified to run for president reportedly encouraged Trump to throw his hat in the ring. He then told Oprah, "You will never be president! You don't have what it takes!"
While Oprah had her share of supporters touting "#Oprah 2020," — and total mentions of a possible presidential run approached one million on Twitter — her critics busied themselves posting pictures of Winfrey kissing disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein at previous awards shows.
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As part of writing about my ski season in Austria with a baby, I will review cafes and restaurants in St Anton am Arlberg. Which are baby-friendly? Do they have space for a pram or buggy? Is it quiet? Is there space for crawlers to clamber around? Are there changing facilities (ha ha)? In this fourth St Anton cafe review, Sonnegg will be considered from the baby's viewpoint…
St Anton Cafe Review, Sonnegg
Sonnegg is the cafe we frequent most regularly for lunch. It is right next to the Nassereinbahn lift valley station in St Anton am Arlberg. They serve everything from breakfast to lunch, an afternoon snack or low-key après-ski. With the advantage of not having to put your skis on again afterwards to get down the mountain. Unfortunately they are not open in the evenings for dinner.
Its location makes it a good spot for non-skiers to meet up with skiers. It is right by the nursery slope, so you can take little ones for a toboggan before or after lunch. Or for a ski for your larger little ones. There is room for buggies / prams and they have some of those high chairs that clip onto the table. Note though that the toilet is tiny and the floor often soaking wet from melted snow, so useless for baby changing. You might be best off heading to the toilet under the lift station where there is at least room for a buggy / pram change.
St Anton Cafe Review, Sonnegg: the food
The main reason we go here so often is that the food is excellent. Daddy swears by the Sonnegg burger, according to his extensive research the best in town. Some of my favourites include the Tiroler Käsespätzle (I guess like a local macaroni cheese) and the green salad with melon, avocado and goats cheese. On a Sunday (and a Thursday) they do a roast pork with dumplings, the closest you will get to a Sunday roast here! From Monday to Friday after 13.30 they serve Kaiserschmarrn, a type of chopped pancake, which is delicious. And they have an excellent natural radler on tap. Daisy usually just has some of our food but sometimes we order a kids meal for her. These are enormous, for example, 5 fish fingers and huge portion of fries.
And the final attraction: for some reason Daisy loves running up and down this restaurant more than any other.


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ClintonRage: The morning after
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On Fox and Friends this morning, Chris Wallace had some interesting comments about his interview with the Finger-Jabber:
His reaction to Clinton accusing him of having a "smirk:"
"What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing."
Heh. On what happened after the interview:
"There was no making up with him. He was angry. And when he left, he chewed out his staff."
The Finger-Jabber. Always, always blaming someone else for his failures.
Noel Sheppard at The American Thinker weighs in on "Bill Clinton, Bin Laden, and Hysterical Revisions." Howard Kurtz does a brief take on Clinton's finger-wagging moment.
Our take on Slick Willie's Day of Rage is here.
Scott Johnson at Power Line:
The most striking feature of Bill Clinton's bloviations on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday was the incredibly low ratio of facts to whoppers. If Chris Wallace could prompt that red-faced response with such an innocuous question, I wonder if a few minutes with Richard Miniter (author of Losing bin Laden, interviewed by NRO here), might not send him to intensive care. I would love to hear Miniter ask Clinton a few questions about Clinton's treatment of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center — an attack that Clinton shrugged off in a few paragraphs of his subsequent Saturday morning radio talk, never to return to the subject. (Miniter quotes the relevant paragraphs of the radio address at pages 28-30 of his book.)
Ronald Cass at RCP minces no words:
Presidents often find it hard to leave the stage. The day of Bush's first inauguration, Clinton lingered for hours at Andrews Air Force base trying to hang on to the attention he had so enjoyed as President. He still seeks the limelight.
But desperation to be noticed after leaving office, to have the respect and affection Clinton craves, isn't a substitute for doing the right thing when in office – any more than lies are a substitute for honesty, or indecision a suitable alternative to moral courage.
On the golf course, Bill Clinton is known for his dislike of playing his ball where it lies, scoring honestly, and taking his lumps as the rest of us duffers must. He makes his own score, always a good deal better than the real number.
Someone else should be trusted to do the scoring when it comes to Clinton's time in office. In the history books, he deserves to be counted as the President who did not protect us against al-Qaeda, who left the impression they could attack us without penalty, whose wasted opportunities contributed to the travesty of 9/11.
Tough talk now should not be allowed to obscure that fact. Lies now should not go unanswered.
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