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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Weasel Word Dictionary Day

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and IvГЎn talk about:
* Sick / Wind Storm / Election 2016
* Torture
* Cromnibus / Oil Price Drop Effects

Recorded 2014-12-12

Length this week – 1:11:16

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@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-11 (UTC)

00:29:20 Reading – The U.S. Spent Decades Teaching Torture Techniques To Brazil (Hayes Brown) http://t.co/ri2JJe3bv3
00:32:35 Reading – The taming of Ted Cruz (@milbank) http://t.co/QhPnLyanTy
00:52:58 Reading – U-Va. students challenge Rolling Stone account of attack (T. Rees Shapiro) http://t.co/1Jh8156IN7
00:56:15 Reading – Growing Public Support for Gun Rights (Pew) http://t.co/avGq0aM3Ds
00:58:38 Reading – Kerry Asks Congress for Unfettered War Against ISIS (Todd Zwillich) http://t.co/ucJTxybsiu
01:12:40 Important and well laid out perspective, whatever your own views -> CIA Torture: An Insider’s View (@20committee) http://t.co/yyqXC4gW41
01:14:18 Reading – President Obama writes his first line of Javascript (Stan Schroeder) http://t.co/FD8lPJQacx
01:16:46 Reading – Old iPods are selling for as much as $90,000 (Rex Santus) http://t.co/JYJDI62aZN
01:31:18 Reading – Why We Tortured, Why We Shouldn’t (@DouthatNYT) http://t.co/9eentp76w6
01:38:27 Reading – Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA (Peter Sullivan) http://t.co/p0aCbpPlEK
01:42:40 Reading – What Can the City Council Actually Do About the Sinking Viaduct? (Heidi Groover) http://t.co/VJ3tVg9oFq
01:50:01 Reading – Coming Clean, With Bloodstained Hands (David Rothkopf) http://t.co/cGagHRBqhW
05:26:41 Retweeted @ggreenwald 2014-12-08 18:42:52 If US Govt keeps having to say: "this can't be disclosed or it'll make people violent toward us," shouldn't that cause some self-reflection?
05:30:29 Reading – An update on Google News in Spain (Google) http://t.co/6Gv0DOzfEK
05:32:30 Retweeted @chrislhayes 05:02:03 If the moral calculation is simply, "Did the ends justify the means?" it's hard to see why we even bother with laws in the first place.
05:33:16 Retweeted @AdamSerwer 05:01:28 If "at least we are not as bad as the lunatics chopping people's heads off" is your argument your argument sucks http://t.co/uxXrknVWsJ
17:18:12 Retweeted @BenjySarlin 17:17:56 Key test vote for CR passes 214-213 –barely survives after major drama. Ds opposed unanimously, could they threaten final passage?
17:18:23 Retweeted @frankthorpNBC 17:17:29 Wow, House JUST passes key procedural vote to move forward to a full vote on the #CRomnibus govt spending bill, 214-212.
17:20:07 Retweeted @geoffreyvs 17:19:52 #Cromnibus was down 212-214, changed to 213-213, then 214-212. Speaker immediately concluded the vote when the yeas took the lead.
18:52:17 Retweeted @EliotHiggins 18:51:35 Starting with 9/11 Brennan is just building up to explaining why the CIA had to do weird and painful sex stuff to Arab men in dungeons
19:14:55 Retweeted @ryanlcooper 19:12:44 Let he who hasn't anally raped someone with a turkey baster throw the first stone
19:16:07 Retweeted @AdamSerwer 19:13:14 "most transparent administration ever"
v.s.
"more than enough transparency"
19:23:58 Retweeted @chrislhayes 19:18:04 Brennan unequivocally leaving the door open to torturing in the future.
19:24:45 Retweeted @mattapuzzo 19:18:48 Q: What keeps this program from happening again in another crisis?
Brennan: вЂњI defer to the policymakers in future timesвЂќ
23:09:35 Retweeted @RobertsDan 22:59:03 Uh oh. Sounds of clapping and cheering coming from inside House Democrat meeting. Reporters ordering pizza for long night.
23:36:57 Retweeted @ElaheIzadi 23:35:18 Oh God CNN's shutdown clock is up #flashbacks

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-10 (UTC)

00:08:35 Retweeted @dandrezner 00:05:49 <— will happily advise @CIA on why torture is a pretty counterproductive tactic for a hell of a lot less than $81 million.
00:18:44 Retweeted @conor64 00:02:37 So even as Dianne Feinstein was putting together report documenting years of IC lies to CongressвЂ¦ she was taking the NSA at its word.
00:20:12 Retweeted @Gus_802 00:00:36 Blaming the CIA for carrying out torture is akin to blaming the Pentagon for invading Iraq. Think.
01:04:50 Retweeted @chrislhayes 2014-12-09 23:54:54 Those defending torture can say whatever they want, but please spare me "the law is the law" or "they broke the law" in any other context.
01:11:45 Retweeted @7im 00:56:45 omfg RT @ZekeJMiller: Hayden to NBC вЂњIf everyone on the planet used CIA as model, overall treatment of detainees on earth would improveвЂќ
01:16:30 Retweeted @dangillmor 00:45:37 Perhaps John McCain's finest hour: Oppose torture because it's wrong, period. TortureReport http://t.co/STZJC4w1dQ
03:51:51 Retweeted @xeni 03:51:13 I want an America I can believe in. Where sadistic torturers, the mass thieves of Wall Street, and sociopathic murdering cops go to jail.
04:18:06 Retweeted @marsroverdriver 04:17:46 Want to know if an act is torture? Here's a handy rule of thumb: if we'd call it torture if the bad guys did it to our guys, it's torture.
05:07:53 Retweeted @marsroverdriver 04:56:32 1. It didn't happen. 2. There are allegations, but wait for all facts. 3. We've known this forever, why are you upset now? Repeat as needed.
05:25:56 Retweeted @ozchrisrock 03:52:23 BREAKING NEWS: According to the #TortureReport , Jesus was not tortured. The Jews & Romans simply used enhanced interrogation methods on him
14:34:49 Reading – The Torture Report Reminds Us of What America Was (Eric Fair) http://t.co/JEPfKGANHL
14:35:37 Reading – Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay Should Stay Down (Ernesto, TorrentFreak) http://t.co/MXzMBG8R09
14:40:45 Reading – Overseas, Torture Report Prompts Calls for Prosecution (Gladstone/MacKey) http://t.co/r31bPilqBw
14:48:43 Reading – Hayden’s testimony vs. the Senate report (Washington Post) http://t.co/pQJtzmPYbq
15:13:52 Reading from 2010 – What Could Possibly Go Wrong (Dominic Holden) http://t.co/nOMo8uJE6g
15:16:26 Reading – Seattle cab driver punched repeatedly in face, allegedly called 'terrorist' (Joanna Small) http://t.co/4uw83TzSzA
15:18:47 Reading – New Everett logo looks a lot like existing corporate brand (Erik Lacitis) http://t.co/NrrpGUfUpg
16:50:25 Reading – Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty (Greg Miller) http://t.co/tY9zwhQuHQ
16:53:22 Reading – No Accountability for Torture (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/oCnZrXe5Cf
17:02:45 Reading – Why the CIA Won't Be Punished for Torture (Noah Feldman) http://t.co/S7m7LLuLjn
17:05:51 Reading – Mars Landing Recipe: Orion, A Big Rocket And Pretty-On-Paper Spacecraft (Elizabeth Howell) http://t.co/Ue02vL1JH3
17:07:53 Reading – Hangouts eavesdrops on your chats to offer 'smart suggestions' (Steve Dent) http://t.co/QXgJ3CpaZb
17:08:59 Reading – Cheney Calls for International Ban on Torture Reports (Andy Borowitz) http://t.co/dG8ge2dR7P
17:11:09 Reading – 5 Telling Dick Cheney Appearances in the CIA Torture Report (Sam Brodey) http://t.co/uuMJn70Lag
18:25:53 Listening to a podcast of a right wing talk radio host while working. They are talking about and defending torture. Very depressing. :-(
20:38:35 Retweeted @BYUfan 20:37:59 .@abulsme Well that's torture in itself! in reply to abulsme
21:12:34 Retweeted @fightfortheftr 20:53:28 The worst kind of irony. #TortureReport http://t.co/r8FR60hO6S

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-09 (UTC)

05:57:34 Reading – Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company (Mark Chediak) http://t.co/mhdWANURlO
06:50:51 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 05:30:48 Super uncomfortable with "Sponge Bob Dylan" #theRock http://t.co/kJZdcROGiI
06:53:04 Retweeted @parmesanforever 06:15:34 @AmyNotAmy oh my god it's an abomination in reply to AmyNotAmy
06:53:09 Retweeted @AmyNotAmy 06:31:28 @parmesanforever a disgusting, horrible abomination. in reply to parmesanforever
07:48:20 Retweeted @cliffmasstldr 06:39:34 Lots of rain the next 3 days, though models disagree on the amount of wind. Some predict a huge windstorm, others predict none. Stay tuned!
08:02:34 Retweeted @ericosuna 07:19:57 My City Tonight #Ferguson #EricGarner #berkeleyprotests http://t.co/hLTyDawdYm
16:22:04 Retweeted @HalpernAlex 16:20:43 It's very important to remember that this was not a rogue CIA program, but torture done at the behest of our national leaders in our name.
16:24:37 Retweeted @marcambinder 16:18:53 The 525 page torture report http://t.co/UhFs0kQS2W
16:50:08 Remember effectiveness debate irrelevant. Much of what in report is illegal under US & Intl law. People should be going to jail. They won’t.
17:07:40 Retweeted @natsecHeather 16:50:46 Why report is needed-practices like threatening sexual abuse of detainee's mother-utterly un-American,wrong @davidfolkenflik @yochidreazen in reply to davidfolkenflik
17:14:20 Retweeted @shaneharris 16:46:26 It was Condi Rice who stepped in to say that Powell, as well as Rumsfeld, should get briefed on the program. They were in Sept. 2003.
17:16:36 Retweeted @HeerJeet 16:51:46 "Rectal rehydration" — take a bow, America, take a bow.
17:18:49 Retweeted @dangillmor 16:52:32 CIA torture report makes clear (as if it wasn't already) that big-time news orgs served as nothing more than stenographers for liars.
17:20:25 Retweeted @WilliamsJon 16:52:35 One detainee recommended for release because mistaken ID. Instead, CIA transfered to US custody for another 4 YEARS! http://t.co/Xp8gijIsGt
17:21:45 Retweeted @OKnox 16:52:40 Section on CIA/Media relations is….something. (h/t @mattapuzzo) http://t.co/3zxl8nY1Cg
17:23:56 Retweeted @dangillmor 16:53:47 Hayden lied repeatedly to Senate. Like Clapper, he's home free. Pathetic.
17:28:50 Retweeted @ZekeJMiller 16:55:55 "Powell would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on what's been going onвЂќ http://t.co/ennoOvKqQu
17:32:19 Retweeted @jonbates5 16:56:21 @EverettBoulder you're not the only thing old, this old bottle was found at the site today. http://t.co/FiCmHarPdg
17:33:52 Retweeted @Acosta 16:52:30 Feinstein report:"no CIA officer, up to and including CIA Directors… briefed the president" on EIT's "before April 2006."
17:39:05 Retweeted @owillis 16:58:36 the whole argument that bush didnt know is also garbage. he effectively said "go do stuff, dont tell me what u did but do whatever"
17:40:39 Retweeted @AriRabinHavt 16:52:07 Torturing means never having to say you’re sorry: http://t.co/AeREB3pOW8
17:41:50 Retweeted @ZekeJMiller 16:59:33 The declassified CIA response to the Senate report https://t.co/JT0eCbMYn6
17:48:20 Retweeted @natsecHeather 17:04:49 As report -and prev- detail, most tortured had nothing to do w/911. some turned out to b innocent. whoops. @JohnDalyBooks @RichardGrenell in reply to JohnDalyBooks
17:49:23 Retweeted @dangillmor 17:05:20 Bush himself has made it clear in the past few days that he wasn't "in the dark" about torture.
17:50:46 Retweeted @EliClifton 16:52:23 Can we just call "rectal exams conducted with excessive force" rape? http://t.co/7smvKCN3pm
17:58:53 Damn it, want to keep following torture report tweets and articles, but have to start doing that work thing now. :-/
18:00:53 Of course I won’t be able to stop myself from keeping one eye on twitter anyway. :-)
18:05:07 Retweeted @fordm 18:04:15 SSCI summary includes a 37-page appendix detailing how former CIA director Michael Hayden misled senators in 2007. http://t.co/HzoykYGHzm
18:11:31 Retweeted @lachlan 18:10:32 Legally irrelevant, but noteworthy MT @BuzzFeedAndrew: WaPo: Most fine with torture, even when you call it "torture" http://t.co/gXUsH53vRi
18:31:34 Retweeted @7im 18:30:46 @CIA chained a guy to a wall of a dungeon and he died from exposure. because, freedom http://t.co/sruOLQARGk
18:50:25 Retweeted @drgrist 18:49:41 On one hand, torture is morally monstrous & ineffective. On the other hand, there is no fucking other hand.
19:09:15 Retweeted @ChristopherJM 19:08:12 The CIA #TortureReport is all about the footnotes. And damn, they're horrible. http://t.co/lEAUvzPZlB http://t.co/6eMqB4Cinv
19:20:39 Torrential rain at this moment looking out the window of my home office in Snohomish Co, WA. Fun. (Well, minus flood warnings and such.)
19:44:11 Reading – Live-Blogging The Torture Report (@dishfeed) http://t.co/TdVHrhJBLg
19:45:02 Retweeted @DavidOAtkins 19:31:06 Republican argument boils down to "You can't handle the truth. You need me on that wall." No we don't. Go to jail.
19:46:52 How supposedly вЂњsmall govtвЂќ type Conservatives can be gung ho defenders of CIA in this is beyond me. This is antithesis of small govt.
20:09:00 Retweeted @normative 20:08:45 A rule of thumb: If a future report on what you're doing would spur international protests & endanger American lives, don't do it.
22:00:39 Cousin @natsecHeather on MSNBC in a few minutes I believeвЂ¦ tuning in now. :-)
22:14:04 Retweeted @MikePrysner 19:11:54 I regretfully worked as an interrogator in Iraq. We did nothing near the brutality shown in the #TortureReport. And what we did ruined lives

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-08 (UTC)

00:46:48 [Abulpost] Tree Acquired http://t.co/o6IIGxbZXx
04:17:45 Retweeted @infinity_shred 03:17:52 Great Amazon review for a sheet of wood http://t.co/jP2RI9P6pZ
04:22:03 Retweeted @studentactivism 03:47:47 If I'm a muppet then I'm a very manly muppet. http://t.co/VmlELMlWNW
17:35:10 Reading – Grumpy Cat's Owner, Formerly A Waitress, Says She's Made Nearly $100 Million (Rachel Zarrell) http://t.co/19nNmiQsZs
17:35:47 Reading – The Worst Parking Lot in Snohomish County is… (Melissa Slager) http://t.co/U1KVcEvNVI
17:48:43 Reading – The Senate Report on CIA Interrogation Is About to Reignite Debate Over the Killing of Bin Laden (Leopold) http://t.co/DO2LLVCMyD
17:58:38 Reading – Physicist Paul Steinhardt Slams Inflation, Cosmic Theory He Helped Conceive (John Horgan) http://t.co/qFQlukMeSl

Tree Acquired

Alex makes goofy poses as we prepare to take the tree home. We also got a tiny little tree for our “train room”.

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-07 (UTC)

04:41:12 Retweeted @pbump 03:42:18 Mary Landrieu's seat has been in Democratic hands for 132 years. http://t.co/wA8KqPWxje
06:20:50 Reading from March – The End of Amendments? (@schaller67) http://t.co/evQ5bWUbDI
06:30:32 Reading from March – These graphs prove Star Trek: TNG is better than TOS. (Andrea Peterson) http://t.co/J0WgiAmpvc
07:13:05 Reading – Nine things we’ve learned about rings, hobbits and Peter Jackson’s epic saga (Ryan Gilbey) http://t.co/BM0PuWG0RS
07:34:37 Reading – Man versus myth: does it matter if the Moses story is based on fact? (Andrew Brown) http://t.co/HT9Ek3pZIk
20:53:08 Reading – Sketchy Rumor Claims Apple Planning New 4-Inch iPhone for 2015 (Kelly Hodgkins) http://t.co/o3F5a65wtO
20:53:40 Reading – Man versus myth: does it matter if the Moses story is based on fact? (Andrew Brown) http://t.co/Bv6O2VFBoH
20:54:55 Reading – Obama Texts His Grumpy Daughters About The Turkey Pardoning (Melinda Taub) http://t.co/bKOlawDpT2
20:58:19 Reading – Al Qaeda kills hostages during SEALs raid on Yemen, Hagel says (Ben Brumfield) http://t.co/Nin4k5vWvu
20:59:47 Reading – No Longer: Deep South Democratic Senators (@kenrudin) http://t.co/5IPNGHvBgY
21:03:05 Reading – We've never seen Pluto up close. That's going to change soon. (@josephstromberg) http://t.co/YrUABmu2Wa
21:51:48 Reading – A Bitcoin Battle Is Brewing (Jon Evans) http://t.co/vQphrRyjBb
21:55:11 Reading – Thirteen killed, including 10-year-old boy, in failed US hostage rescue bid in Yemen (@STForeignDesk) http://t.co/AuRXNx45N9
22:10:22 Reading from September – The partisan history of every U.S. Senate seat, in 1 awesome chart (@pbump) http://t.co/o1KHsEO2X8
23:40:27 Reading – The вЂWhy not me?’ race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 (@TheFix) http://t.co/L5Hxe2epac
23:44:00 Reading – How the Deep South turned red, animated (@pbump) http://t.co/Zk6JSCpqjD

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-06 (UTC)

01:57:24 Reading – Arkansas governor pardons own son, not thousands of others who faced pot charges (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/b0GXbVrV4d
02:03:33 Reading – Auburn Boeing-worker family claims $90M Powerball jackpot (Amelia Dickson) http://t.co/UtqH9ItBzW
02:04:23 Reading – J.K. Rowling To Release 12 New Harry Potter Short Stories This Month (Meredith Woerner) http://t.co/I10m9Kj22v
02:38:59 Retweeted @ezraklein 2014-12-05 15:26:07 Watching the path of Omidyar's First Look and Chris Hughes’ TNR makes you appreciate what an excellent job Jeff Bezos is doing with the Post
03:49:15 Retweeted @africa_focus 02:01:57 A must watch on stereotypes of #Africa http://t.co/0n9BP4Ebpx
03:53:37 Retweeted @DavidRoseQ13FOX 02:01:40 Firefighters using jaws of life to free driver in train vs car collision near 4th in Seattle. @Q13FOX http://t.co/r9Dpc3g38V
04:16:29 Retweeted @SeattleFire 02:26:05 Adult male died from his injuries when his car hit a moving train. @SeattlePD on scene.
06:23:05 Reading – Study: 2012 Prez Campaigns Admit They Used Twitter To Manipulate Coverage (Dylan Scott) http://t.co/VPgHGCSHUd
15:52:27 Think I’m getting something again too. God damn it! :-( RT @imbou: Still coughing a lot from this coldвЂ¦
15:55:08 Retweeted @imbou 15:54:37 @abulsme oh boy! in reply to abulsme
21:19:17 Retweeted @ibull 00:05:02 Why people don't trust.
Much integrity, v wow. RT @roqchams: "We thought they were transporting real sick people…" http://t.co/PceubesUR7

@abulsme tweets from 2014-12-05 (UTC)

14:57:06 Slept through the Orion launch, but looks like all is going well so far. Yay!
15:10:11 Retweeted @NASA_Johnson 13:52:09 #Orion approaches the west coast of FL. #EarthRightNow
Watch the live mission coverage: http://t.co/ESXAb8kpeM http://t.co/yGPtfissLT
15:13:15 Retweeted @spaceteam 15:12:00 #Orion has reached its peak altitude. Live updates: http://t.co/dkIQeJMCCr #EFT1
15:13:24 Retweeted @ObservingSpace 15:11:44 Orion has reached a peak altitude at around 3600 statute miles #OrionLaunch #orion #space http://t.co/ALZqkNM7WP
15:23:31 Retweeted @elisewho 15:22:15 If you're just getting caught up on the @tnr saga, take a look at @ryanlizza's Twitter feed over the last 24 hours.
16:08:05 Watching Orion about to reenterвЂ¦ http://t.co/vAc0f66jeU
16:27:18 Retweeted @planet4589 16:27:05 Three good main chutes, Orion EFT-1 descending towards the Pacific
16:27:29 Retweeted @NASAWatch 16:27:21 #NASA streaming TV has died again. Buy some bandwidth, NASA. #Orion #EFT1
16:27:54 Retweeted @GormoJourno 16:27:24 .@NASA_Orion is at 4,000 feet and dropping http://t.co/gzLeps0Zxr
16:28:14 Having the video stream die in the last couple minutes sucks. :-/
16:28:39 Retweeted @NYCAviation 16:28:20 Main chutes deployed. There's your new spacecraft, America. http://t.co/2i7zh1dfAk #Orion http://t.co/9u9cUYZ3ME
16:29:52 Retweeted @BadAstronomer 16:29:45 Splashdown. #Orion
16:30:29 Retweeted @planet4589 16:30:21 SPLASHDOWN at 1629 UTC, about a minute later than predicted. Orion Crew Module EFT-1 has returned to Earth.
16:30:42 Retweeted @NASAWatch 16:30:24 #Orion is Stable One – upright #EFT1
16:31:25 Sounds like that whole Orion flight went pretty much exactly as planned from start to finish. Excellent for a first test flight!
16:32:59 Retweeted @NASAWatch 16:32:42 #NASA streaming TV failed at the moment of #Orion #EFT1 launch & landing 1. NASA needs to buy more bandwidth 2. NASA missions still popular
19:29:11 [Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: Too Many Books http://t.co/eIrfA6899m
20:10:51 Retweeted @KING5Seattle 20:09:28 RT @seattledot: E Marginal Way S (SR 99) NB is closed at Diagonal Ave S due to train derailment. http://t.co/tam6e5qsrv

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Too Many Books

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam talks about:
* Book and Movie Reviews
* Orion / TNR / Eric Garner / Protests / GettingRacistsFired

Recorded 2014-12-05

Length this week – 48:29

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