March 10, 2015

At the Mendota Sunset Café...

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... you can talk about anything you want.

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33 comments:

Bob Ellison said...

Where should I go to find a good, used, AWD/4WD car?

Crimso said...

How go the riots?

Rob said...

Not the most important question about Hillary's home email server, but interesting nevertheless: who paid for it? Given how incredibly cheap the Clintons are, it beggars belief that the cost of the equipment and IT support came out of their pocket. My guess is that it was paid for either as a U.S. Government-paid office expense of the former president or by the Clinton Foundation.

YoungHegelian said...

@Rob,

Wouldn't you just love to be the sysop for the Clintons?

That poor schmuck is now a couple of months away from staring a Congressional subpoena in the face, and knowing that the Clintons will throw him under the bus in a heartbeat. Do you think anyone explained to him exactly what that email server was going to be used for? That it would be used to store her D. of State emails? Was he informed that all federal emails have to be preserved by law? I doubt it very much.

If I was him, I'd backup the server, quit, find a lawyer, and take the image to the most powerful Republican in the House or Senate who would give me the time of day. If a client burned me like that, I'd try my best to take them down along with me.

YoungHegelian said...

A quotation from Hillary found at Powerline:

QUESTION: How could the public be assured that when you deleted emails that were personal in nature, that you didn’t also delete emails that were professional, but possibly unflattering? …"

HRC: Well first of all, you have to ask that question to every single federal employee, because the way the system works, the federal employee, the individual, whether they have one device, two devices, three devices, how many addresses, they make the decision.

So, even if you have a work-related device with a work-related .gov account, you choose what goes on that.


No, that is absolutely incorrect, and HRC knows it, which why she employed her own server from the get-go.

Every email that comes in or goes out is logged & backed-up by the email archiving software. The end user has no chance to delete the email from anything but their own account. A copy is automatically preserved on the archival server, no matter what the end user does.

You don't think the government archivists & IT security folks are that stupid, that their designs can be thwarted by some idiot using the delete key?

Hagar said...

@Bob,
I had a good experience with Carmax.
Or go see your local Subaru dealers.
(Assuming it is a 4WD car that you want.)

Hagar said...

What server?
The one they have now is apparently being managed by a firm in Atlanta, that of course does not mean the server is in Atlanta. Before, they used a firm in Texas and also managed it themselves, I think.
After all this time, I doubt even the case and setup is original, and certainly the the harddrives must have been changed out - probably more than once.

pm317 said...

I suspect Hillary did it (set up her own server and use that account) to circumvent Obama thugs. But it all looks very bad. Obama must be very pleased with himself. I bet this leak came from the WH considering it was let out the week of Netanyahu debacle. Always ask who benefits from this. The Benghazi select committee knew about this since last year but they didn't leak it -- it came from the WH.

YoungHegelian said...

@Hagar,

....certainly the the hard drives must have been changed out - probably more than once.

Which, of course, renders even deep forensic analysis & recovery impossible. But, even in the best case, forensic analysis of a mail server using an email system built around a data base as the mail store (e.g. MS Exchange) would be very difficult because the emails themselves are not stored as files, but rather as records in the data base.

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traditionalguy said...

But, but, the server belongs to William Clinton. So Hillary cannot give it up as bad as she wants to.

Hagar said...

YH,
I have no idea what you are talking about and do not want to know. (I used a data base program once to compile a windrose, and I do not like to even think of that experience).

However, I heard the iron in her voice when she said that server will remain private, so I do believe there is something there that can't be erased and the Clintons cannot afford to have it found.

Hagar said...

And the server is admitted to exist as of today.
Would a mysterious fire be too much of a muchness?

Pass the popcorn!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Hillary Presser in two words: Make Me

retired said...

They will never hang anything on the Clinton's, Willie is too slick and powerful. The goal here is to keep HRC out of the White House. She will supply the means. The opposition simply needs to stay out of the way while the press does its job.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Neither superfluous nor supercilious.


Quite indeed again congratulations on your dislpays noone else could do.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Bill Buckley.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Sure sure we recognize the Coens with Paul Newman.

But.

But.

Butt Buddy!

But Buddy!

Butt Buddy it's now, after some of that Biden dingus.

Yep, the idea of one heartbeat away swept aside, because Joe!, Joe! seems most apt.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Id this thing on?

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Is this id in?

Is this id on?

Guildofcannonballs said...

I don't agree with the term beautiful, but very, very precious is/our our libs's lies. Pretty/hot/youknowyou'llsuffice tantric/mantra.

They are libs only in their beliefs; their actions betray greed amongst the most toxic vengence/hatred hast brewed by my people: the Germans.

And Catholic.

And IRish.

Guildofcannonballs said...

I used to thing like Glenn Beck.

Now I long of Ben Franklin.

Ace sets the pace.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Both superfluous and supercilious.

Good God thank you.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Being onlya 68% majority, not enoughm this will end greatly.

Living in Utopia, bitching will be the greatest pastime, as is our current "art."

Buckley has little to do with this.

Sad is something you can't be unless you know about WFB.


You don't.

Guildofcannonballs said...

How do you respond to J. Bach?

What's wrong with your brain, why not ackowledge betterness?


Only betters ask, which makes the question fucked, of course.

Guildofcannonballs said...

The Lord Jesus Christ died for my sins.

This includes gmail identities undisclosed

I've, an idiot, already told you. I shall humor you no more, unless it pleases me.

BudBrown said...

oshkosh oughta start a new line for the comoing wave of commu-proms. And maybe bobby baker was using the "Server."

Bob Ellison said...

Thanks, Hagar. I've tried Carmax a bit and will look into it further. I'm open-minded about car v. truck and would even consider a Jeep Wrangler.

My wife watches the morning news on the local NBC station, so now I've got this ear-worm:

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

Players gonna play, play, play, play, play, play

Skaters gonna skate, skate, skate, skate, skate; Ele-

Vators gonna vate, vate, vate, vate, vate, vate


Sorry if I've infected you. I'm hoping just typing all of that will cure me.

lonetown said...

It seems many of the blogs I frequent depend on Amazon a little. I wonder if Amazon would let me put a list of blogs in my prime account that would each get a share of my purchases?

Meade said...

Bob Ellison said...
"Where should I go to find a good, used, AWD/4WD car?"

In a few years you might be able to find one of these used although I suspect most owners will be holding on to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXmd3QF-zYU

Bob Ellison said...

Meade, that looks like a sweet drive. I used to have an M3 that I loved.

Now I need more of a beater that won't make me cry when my sons hit a pothole or get it stuck in snow.

Hagar said...

That sounds like my old Legacy wagon that I traded in for my Forester.

Definitely nothing with an R or a Z in the model name!

Hagar said...

Why do the MSM keep referring to the .223 M855 ammunition as "AR-15 ammunition"?

Is 30-06 "Garand M1 ammunition"?

Ruger has a Blackhawk chambered for 30-30. Does that make 30-30 "handgun ammunition"?
And the weakest 30-30 is still more powerful than the hottest .223 available. Des that also make 30-30 "armor piercing"?

Bob Ellison said...

Hagar: why? Because almost nobody in the MSM has the slightest knowledge of guns. They don't know a bullet from a cartridge, a rifle from a shotgun, a semi-automatic from a full automatic. It goes on and on. The MSM class is fantastically ignorant about guns.