Mark B. Morrow

When I lived in Tampa in the early '80s we had "Love Bugs" that made a mess of the front of many cars. They were very acidic and would destroy the paint if not removed quickly. When I bought my '84 Dodge Daytonav the first thing I bought was a bra to protect the Black paint. It didn't look great but it did protect the paint.

B.S in the first 42 seconds. U.S. Embassies and Consulates are the sovereign territory of the United States. It makes no difference if the dead are American Citizens or Embassy employees. The U.S. Ambassador should not have been in Benghazi in a lightly defended Consulate. He should have been in nthe Embassy. State Department personnel are always subject to the protection of the host country. There are no Embassies with enough U.S. military personnel to stave off an assault in the absence of local authorities. Every investigation into Benghazi has concluded that there was no way to get sufficient numbers of troops there in time to end the attack before the deaths of the 4 Americans. Benghazi is a tragedy, it is not a political scandal no matter how much the right wing wishes it was. Lastly, being wrong about the cause of sometthing is not the same as lying about it. Obama called the attack an act of terror the very next day. You may continue.

True in Spooner's time. I can't see anyone competing with USPS on price today.

I think the Sci-Fi stuff is unlikely. Then again, maybe the next set of documents from Edward Snowden could prove me wrong. We have been pretty successful at killing off Taliban and al Quada commanders for a long time.

The Post Office funding crisis was manufactured by Congress. Since 2006, the Post Office has been legally required to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees at a cost of around $5.5 billion a year. For the first time last year, it defaulted on its annual payment. When Congress imposed those mandates in 2006, the Post Office was doing just fine. Digital communication had yet to take such a huge bite out of the amount of mail the USPS processed and delivered. First-class mail volume was about 97 billion pieces in 2006. So there wasn’t much of a backlash when Congress decided that the Post Office was healthy enough to lock in health benefits for future retirees — for the next 75 years, mind you, something no other public or private agency does. http://business.time.com/2013/02/07/how-healthcare-expenses-cost-us-saturday-postal-delivery/ This includes future employees who haven't even been born yet. I wonder how healthy FedEx or UPS would be if they were held to the same standard? Just look at the number of corporate pension plans that were chronically underfunded over the last 30 years. All the retirees who were promised pensions as Deferred Compensation for working at a lower cash income got screwed becuse the employers (and some unions too) were able to play fast and loose with their pension plans.

I suppose that would be right, but those jobs seem to have a very short life expectancy. Ask not for whom the drone flys, it flys for thee.

You're not even close. Obamacare is the same private insurance companies that have been insuring people for decades. Treatment is provided by private or publiclicly owned hospitals. The VA system is owned and run by the Veterans Administration. They own the hospitals and employ the doctors and staff.

Fark.com- Obama delivers weapons to terrorist group that held Bergdahl: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Ten militants wiped out by a U.S. drone attack early Thursday were members of the feared Haqqani network that kidnapped U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a senior Taliban source said. Among the dead were two senior Haqqani commanders known as “Qari Yar Jan” and “Roohullah,” the source told NBC News on the condition of anonymity. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/haqqani-network-militants-killed-u-s-drone-strike-taliban-n129526 Those guys would have been safer at Gitmo.

Is that the Fusion that comes with a special bra?

Someone should patent the use of the internet to find a nice prison and then sue the guy for infringement.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/its-payback-time-as-findthebest-wrests-legal-fees-from-patent-troll/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica/index+(Ars+Technica+-+All+content) When Santa Barbara startup FindTheBest (FTB) was sued by a patent troll called Lumen View last year, it vowed to fight back rather than pay up the $50,000 licensing fee Lumen was asking for. Company CEO Kevin O'Connor made it personal, pledging $1 million of his own money to fight the legal battle. Once FindTheBest pursued the case, the company dismantled the troll in short order. In November, the judge invalidated Lumen's patent, finding it was nothing more than a description of computer-oriented "matchmaking." Now the judge overseeing the case has ruled (PDF) that it's Lumen View, not FindTheBest, that should have to pay those expenses. In a first-of-its-kind implementation of new fee-shifting rules mandated by the Supreme Court, US District Judge Denise Cote found that the Lumen View lawsuit was a "prototypical exceptional case." "Lumen’s motivation in this litigation was to extract a nuisance settlement from FTB on the theory that FTB would rather pay an unjustified license fee than bear the costs of the threatened expensive litigation," Cote stated in the order she issued on Friday. "Lumen’s threats of 'full-scale litigation,' 'protracted discovery,' and a settlement demand escalator should FTB file responsive papers, were aimed at convincing FTB that a pay-off was the lesser injustice." The Defendant also countered with a RICO action which was dismissed although they intend to appeal that decision. This new rule on exceptional case expense is the most important development in patent law. the trolling will stop when it becomes financially unrewarding. Trolls bank on the belief that targets will pay to avoid a lawsuit no matter how tenuous the claim. Now the tables have turned and it will be the trolls who have to conntemplate the cost of litigating.

For Blackhorse: There's a huge difference between an unintentional and "colossally stupid" mistake and the intentional outting of Ms. Plame as political payback to punish her husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson for his criticism of the Bush Administration's "Yellow Cake" misinformation as a pretext to go to war in Iraq. Whoever left the CIA cheif's name on the public list should be fired. Those who leaked Plame's name should be in prison. The only one who was convicted was Scooter Libby and President Bush commuted his jail sentence before it started. More likely than not VP Cheney was the driving force behind the leak since Libby reported to him.

What if Dogs Could Text? http://www.boredpanda.com/texts-from-dogs/

Probably not, but it sure looks like fun!

Speaking of Very Robust Bottom Ends:

Why it takes so long to get your French Car repaired. https://www.youtube.com/embed/96I_UrTOZF0

Meh, I heard Kim Jong Un scored 100 goals against the NHL All Stars.

From the countryside to the track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xeTrqOALGc#t=62

Dodge is the New Plymouth. Of course that strategy didn't work out too well for the Old Plymouth.

Hell, they will just need a big baggie.

They moved up to a '71 Challenger grille, so there's that.

Possibly not street legal.

If they ever find a Peel, they won't have any trouble getting it home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgZVnQclPgA#t=51

Vintage Ford Dealers on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/bossmustang/sets/72157622945726489/