Posted on July 7, 2019July 24, 2019 by chuck

Chris Isaak – Speak of the Devil – Music

Speak of the devil
The devil appears
Waiting for someone
Been waiting for years
And it’s alright now
Yeah I’m alright now

Watching her walking
Like watching a flame
Trying to forget her
Don’t mention her name
And I’m alright now
Yeah I’m alright now

Lonely days without her
Nights that would not end
As long as I don’t think about her
I can still pretend
It’s alright

Yeah
Speak of the devil
The devil…

Chris Isaak on Amazon

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Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019 by chuck

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Posted on June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 by chuck

SpaceX SATELLITES 6/29/2019

Of the 60 launched only 3 failed to work as expected. Communication with 3 of the satellites has been lost. The failed satellites will eventually enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up.

The rest of the 57 satellites have been working, according to the SpaceX. Forty-five of the satellites have raised their altitudes with their onboard thrusters and have reached their final intended orbits of 342 miles up. Five of the satellites are still in the middle of raising their orbits. The other five are undergoing additional systems checks before they up their orbits. As for the remaining two satellites, SpaceX intentionally fired their onboard thrusters with the goal of crashing them into the planet’s atmosphere. There wasn’t anything wrong with those satellites — the company just wanted to test the process of taking satellites out of commission. That process is important to accurately report to the FCC before they can receive permission to launch more satellites. The 60 they were given permission to fire up into orbit are just the first of more than 12,000 they hope to have orbiting around earth.

Once the current 55 of the 60 satellites are in position then they will begin testing what kind of internet service those satellites will be able to provide. The problem with current satellite internet providers is that the lag prevents true speed utilization and very often leads to high customer dissatisfaction. Many customers feel the current providers charge way too much for the lackluster service they deliver. It is an open question to whether SpaceX or any of these companies will do any better any time in the future.

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Posted on June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 by chuck

USA & China Trade Talks Back On 6/29/2019

Xi, in being mindful of the long standing relationship between the US and China, recounted the era of “ping-pong diplomacy” that helped jump-start U.S.-China relations two generations ago. Since then, he said, “one basic fact remains unchanged: China and the United States both benefit from cooperation and lose in confrontation.”

“Cooperation and dialogue are better than friction and confrontation,” he added.

Mr. Trump said Saturday he would allow U.S. companies to sell their products to Huawei, but he was not yet willing to remove the company from a trade blacklist. The move could draw criticism from Democrats and congressional leadership though it should not. The motive of the US should be to bring Huawei into line to build a secure product that hackers working for China or the US or for themselves cannot penetrate. The goal should not be to destroy Huawei.

China and the U.S. have differences over the accusation that Beijing steals technology and coerces foreign companies into handing over trade secrets. China denies it engages in such practices. There is little doubt those practices are real and are a problem. That said, there should be a better way to fairly license the use of patents, technology, to not just Chinese companies but to small US companies that are being shut out of business by the monopoly powers. And while the US government and media like to focus their propaganda on technology, part of the battle is over low tech such as handbags that are being sold as knockoffs in US flea markets. In my opinion the attack on knockoffs, which most people know are knockoffs, is stupid. Maybe if the monopoly powers would provide greater access to ma & pa to sell their real products there would be less of a demand and less of a distribution channel for knockoffs.

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Anyway, let us hope the future talks are fruitful and the current tariffs will be brought down on both sides. There is no doubt that our trade deficit with China needs to be brought down a LARGE amount to both the benefit of China and the US. But at the same time we can not ignore the degree the US and Chinese economies have become interdependent. You might not like that fact. I definitely do not like that fact. But that is our reality.

Most US retailers can not exist without access to Chinese production. Those who try to make money online through ebay and amazon or their own websites definitely need access to Chinese products. At the same time US farmers and small manufacturers need access to try to sell their goods to China. Us manufacturers need to be able to sell to Chinese companies like Huawei.

That said, Trump has NOT been wrong to try to deal with our trade deficit. It is a problem. But the focus needs to be as much in trying to build up more small manufacturers in the US to compete and create an environment for them to compete as blaming China. And Trump has been doing that and that is a good thing. I think over all Trump is doing the best he can given the hand he was given to play.

Reference Article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-china-trade-talks-restarted-trump-suspends-new-tariffs-today-2019-06-29/

Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 by chuck

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Posted on June 21, 2019February 1, 2023 by chuck

Teddy Snyder’s body was found punctured by nine bullets

In 1989, in San Fernando Valley, the bullet riddled body of Teddy Snyder–a pornographer–was found. He was killed outside of his home. A law-enforcement investigator familiar with the case said the killing had the appearance of an organized crime-style hit. Court records show that the Northridge company Snyder founded, Video Cassette Recordings Inc., owed money to a company allegedly controlled by a man linked by federal prosecutors to an East Coast crime family. VCR’s offices were searched as part of the ongoing investigation by a state and local law-enforcement task force probing organized crime links to the porn business.

Police first thought organized crime was involved. They thought pornographers were involved. Those close to Teddy Snyder thought drugs were involved.

Then….

Sharon Snyder, 39, of Woodland Hills, and Victor Diaz, 47, were charged in San Fernando Municipal Court with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Snyder on Aug. 1, 1989. They were also charged with the special allegation that they killed for financial gain, which means prosecutors may seek the death penalty.

According to the district attorney’s complaint against them, Sharon Snyder offered Diaz $20,000 to kill her husband so that she could inherit their property.

Snyder, 47, was shot four times from the front and five times in the back with a .380-caliber Mac II submachine gun near his parked car in Northridge. Apparently Sharon was pretty intent on inheriting money from her bankrupt husband. At least according to authorities.

The investigation turned toward the wife after Ventura County law enforcement officials arrested William Fisher in an unrelated investigation. Port Hueneme police were investigating drug sales in their city and followed a suspect, not Fisher, to a Simi Valley residence where Fisher, 35, lived, said Sgt. Dennis Fitzgerald.

Authorities raided the property and arrested Fisher on misdemeanor drug charges. He was later arrested again for violating the conditions of a federal parole by associating with a convicted felon, and was then currently in federal custody in Los Angeles, authorities said.

Police found undisclosed evidence linking Fisher to the Snyder killing during the raid and contacted Los Angeles detectives. Fisher then gave investigators information about the killing, authorities said.

According to the San Fernando court complaint, after Sharon Snyder offered Diaz $20,000 to kill her husband, Diaz offered Fisher $20,000 to commit an unspecified murder. Fisher later helped Diaz obtain the submachine gun which authorities believe Diaz used to shoot Teddy Snyder, the complaint stated.

According to police Sharon Snyder gave Diaz a $10,000 bill, the complaint said. The rare bill came from Teddy Snyder’s money collection, Mellecker said. Seriously. Would she do that? I don’t know.

In her testimony, Sharon Snyder said that shortly before the slaying, a New York man she said was a “lieutenant in the Lucchese crime family” had stepped up pressure to collect a debt of more than $100,000 that her husband owed the family.

The man said her husband “had a week, and if he didn’t pay the money, Teddy would be dead,” Snyder said. Snyder testified that she and her husband were broke and barely able to support their cocaine habits.

In the trial a handwriting expert testified that Sharon Snyder did not write a letter in which she purportedly admitted her role in the machine-gun slaying of her pornographer husband. Nor was the letter written by Victor Diaz, the confessed triggerman who brought the letter forward in the San Fernando Superior Court trial of Sharon Snyder, the expert said.

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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Murder of Solicitor Floyd Hoard

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Diaz, the prosecution’s chief witness, surprised the court when he testified that the defendant had sent him a letter implicating herself in the slaying of her husband, Theodore Snyder.

So can you guess the outcome of this trial.

Here it is.

Jury Acquits Wife in 1989 Slaying of Sex-Video Maker. San Fernando Superior Court jurors, who deliberated five days before reaching a verdict, said they did not believe the testimony of the prosecution’s chief witness against Sharon Snyder, 41.

The witness, Victor Diaz, 47, who admitted killing flamboyant sex-video producer Theodore J. Snyder, testified that he did it at Sharon Snyder’s behest because he was in love with her and she had promised to share her inheritance with him. The jury did not trust his story. In return for his testimony, Diaz, an admitted cocaine dealer, was allowed to plead no contest to second-degree murder and was promised a maximum sentence of 17 years to life. Had she been convicted, Snyder could have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Teddy Snyder’s Credits

Raven (Video) (executive producer)
1984 Tracie Lords (Video) (executive producer)
1983 Blue Confessions (Video) (executive producer) / (producer)
1981 Seka’s Fantasies (Video) (executive producer)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short) (producer)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short) (producer)
Hide HideDirector (3 credits)
1984 The Erotic World of Candy Shields (Video)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short)
Hide HideCinematographer (3 credits)
1983 Blue Confessions (Video)
1973 Tell the Doc (Short)
1971 Sex for Sale (Short)

Posted on June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 by chuck

Adult performers picket Instagram HQ over company’s banning them

Over on the guardian the headline reads, “

Adult performers picket Instagram HQ over company’s nude photo rules

But then later in the article it reads:

“In the large majority of instances, there was no nudity shown in the pictures. However, it appears that the accounts were terminated merely because of their status as an adult performer,” James Felton, the Adult Performers Actors Guild legal counsel, told the Guardian. “Efforts to learn the reasons behind the termination have been futile,” he added.

That suggests that people are not just being banned from sites for what they do on the sites themselves but for who they are and what they do on other sites and even in their real lives. Now mind you, it is true that a lot of adult performers use Instagram for traffic and to make money. Some cam models charge their fans tokens before those fans are given access to their Instagram or Snapchat accounts. That is true. Some may have crossed lines and Instagram may have received complaints. Though I think that is doubtful in many cases given that the banning was done in mass. The banning of many of cam models seems to be part of something company driven and not user driven.

I am reminded of twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in an article, calling the internet a separate country. That may seem like a harmless statement within the context of the internet being global and without boundaries. It may sound like a harmless comparative statement. But the statement is not correct. The internet is a global utility. It is not a country.

The internet isn’t just a utility in the US or UK or Mexico or whatever. It is global. But then when you consider the large internet corporations are basically trying to write their own laws, create their own currencies, and are deciding who they want to kick out of their own “country” it gets rather scary. Why? Because the internet is not a separate country. People don’t live on the internet. They live real lives in real places and in many cases are trying to make money on the internet from their own home. The internet is a very important utility that serves planet earth. It is not a separate fucking country.

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Now some people say the internet is “the Wild West. It has to be tamed.” First, again, the internet is not a geographic location. It is not a separate country. It is a utility and neither the government nor the Corporate Police State should dictate legal behavior when using that utility. If you are breaking laws there are already laws that can be enforced against you. Allowing the corporate police state trying to control the internet to write their own laws and use those laws to discriminate against people is NOT acceptable.

Imagine if AT&T or Verizon were to put filter spyware AI on your phone. Now imagine, if in conversation you are half drunk, get excited, and tell someone in a joking insult, “Yo, motherfucker, Georgia is going to beat Alabama hands down. If you think otherwise, you can suck my cock.” Now imagine if at that point the AI kills your phone and kills your account and the phone companies acting in collusion will never allow you to have a phone account again. Now obviously AT&T and Verizon could get their asses sued off if they were to try such a thing. Neither they nor their AI should be listening to your conversation or reading your texts anyway. But should Google or Facebook or Twitter or whoever be allowed to basically do exactly that and still be treated as a utility.

Some people will say that Instagram has the right to say what people can and can not do on their service. That is true to some degree, but if they police content on their system and say they have the ability to act as an editor and chief of the content on their system then they are a publisher. They aren’t a utility. If they are a publisher then all immunity from what users do on their system should vanish. They should be held to the same standards as any other publication.

Now you may not like cam models. You may thump your bible and point to the fact that there are local decency laws. Understand, Pinterest censored Christians by putting them in the same class as porn. (As I understand it, opinion.) So religious people should understand that when they are promoting censorship they may be promoting the censorship of themselves and silencing their own voices.

The point of the local laws is to protect the local streets and neighborhoods. The internet allows adult entertainers to make money, for the most part, invisible from the streets of your neighborhood. I would guess most people consider that a good thing and not a bad thing. Do cam models on Instagram intrude into your enjoyment of the system? Do preachers on Pinterest intrude into your enjoyment of the system? If the answer is yes in either case and real people are complaining (not hit brigades using bots or elite media ass wipes trying to gain control of the internet) then of course the given internet company has a right to try to protect the system for their users. No one is saying that don’t have right to remove hurtful, drunken post, from their systems that they have received legitimate user complaints about. But banning people from the site for things they aren’t even doing on the site and therefore can’t possibly be guilty of intrusive behavior as far as their offsite behavior, it is problematic. That level of policing people should raise the question to whether the internet company should lose their right to be treated as a utility and instead be treated as a publisher and subjected to more harsh laws.

The degree that internet companies act in collusion with their shared data to ban people raises very real antitrust issues. Especially when they are doing it to censor free speech and cause economic harm to small businesses with that censorship. It does not matter whether you are a cam model or a preacher or someone with a political opinion or yes, even someone overly excited about a football game, free speech is important. FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT.

Posted on June 17, 2019May 15, 2025 by chuck

Hearthville Serial: Envy Is A Terrible Thing – Chapter Nine

Excerpt:

Jack slapped Stewart on the back. “Right. The first time I saw Victor naked in the shower after gym I had nightmares about Big Foot chasing me around with that thing.”

Stewart said, “It is a scary looking cock.”

“You two shut up. You are just jealous. Penis envy is a terrible thing.”

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Chapter 9

Stewart was the last person to greet Preacher Pat Piaolo after church. Everyone else had gone to their cars and was leaving. Stewart walked up and shook Preacher Pat’s hand with a firm handshake.

Stewart said, “That was a pretty good sermon but I am pretty sure that Jesus never played football.”

Preacher Pat laughed. “But he would have been a hell of a quarterback. Maybe almost as good as you.”

“My football days are over.”

“I am sure God has a plan for you. You will have a good life.”

“Yeah, people say that when one door closes another door opens, but I don’t like drafty houses. All my plans for what I wanted to do with my life have blown out the window and I am feeling lost.”

“I wish I had the perfect thing to say but I don’t.”

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Posted on June 16, 2019May 15, 2025 by chuck

Hearthville Serial: Envy Is A Terrible Thing – Chapter Eight

Excerpt:

Ms. Minnie led Ellen around to the tool shed where she had her garden supplies. Ellen said, “I remember you used to work for the Red Rover Adoption Agency. Do you remember my secret?”

Ms. Minnie said, “Honey, I remember all the girls but I don’t talk about when they needed help.”

Ellen and Ms. Minnie carried a couple of buckets and hedge clippers around to the garden area. Ms. Minnie also carried a couple of pillows to sit down on as they got down to pull weeds.

Ms. Minnie said, “You don’t have to worry about me talking out of turn.”

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Chapter Eight

Victor knocked on the door to the home where blind Joe Racho lived with his wife Minnie. Mrs. Minnie Racho answered the door with dog Joe Jr. at her side. Joe and Minnie were a black couple. Joe Jr. was a white poodle with a large afro and besides a gold color collar had a gold chain around his neck.

“Hey, Minnie I have come to do some work around your house like I told Joe that I was going to do. I brought some people with me.”

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Posted on June 15, 2019May 15, 2025 by chuck

Hearthville Serial: Envy Is A Terrible Thing – Chapter Seven

Excerpt:

Harry answered, “I don’t bowl with anyone who bowls over 200 and will not give me a handicap.”

Victor acted like he was going to poke Harry in the eyes. Harry quickly pushed Victor’s hands away and screamed, “What the hell?”

Victor said, “I was going to give you a handicap. I was going to make you blind.”

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Jack, Victor, Harry, Stewart, Judy, Elliot, and Ellen sat down at the large dining room table to eat fried chicken, butter beans, potato salad, and slices of tomato.

Ellen stared at Victor. She wasn’t sure what to say. Victor saw the look in her eyes. He wondered if his father had told her about Jossette’s death. Victor didn’t say anything.

Between shoving his mouth full of potato salad, Harry watched Stewart. He realized Stewart was darting glances at his father Elliot. He knew Stewart was angry that his father would not tell him what had happened to Victor in Atlanta two years ago. That is when Stewart pin pointed a change in Victor because of the overdose of pills, but Harry thought the change had happened a year earlier when Jossette and Roger had moved to Atlanta. At the ice cream shop Harry had not only heard the ‘top, bottom’ part of the conversation at Victor’s table but he had also heard Victor tell Judy, “Don’t ever hate Jossette. She will forever be the love of my life.” Harry knew that Stewart had also been hurt when Roger moved to Atlanta. “So Mr. Duddley, is there any truth to the rumor that Roger Ogleby may become the new quarterback of the Hearthville Hogs?”

Elliot considered Harry’s question. He saw the irritation the question had brought to Stewart’s expression. “Lawrence would like his son to come to Hearthville, but you know Roger is running a corporation.”

Stewart got up.

Victor shook his head as he watched Stewart leave the dining room. “Brilliant Harry. Brilliant.”

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Ellen yelled to Stewart, “Son, you get back in here and eat. Your leg will never properly heal if you starve yourself like some heroin addicted model.”

Elliot yelled, “We will probably keep the same sorry quarterback we have now who will continue to make you look like the greatest quarterback the Hogs ever had.”

Victor yelled, “Get your ass back here and eat with Harry. He is your friend; not mine. My friend would know not to throw Roger up in your face.”

Harry shook his head. “It was just a question.” Then Harry teased, “Victor, you know you love me.”

Victor smiled.

Stewart came back into the dining room. Without saying anything he looked around the table. He sat down and started back eating.

Victor said, “So Jack and I are going bowling later. Anyone want to join us?”

Harry answered, “I don’t bowl with anyone who bowls over 200 and will not give me a handicap.”

Victor acted like he was going to poke Harry in the eyes. Harry quickly pushed Victor’s hands away and screamed, “What the hell?”

Victor said, “I was going to give you a handicap. I was going to make you blind.”

Judy screamed, “Victor. Not funny.” She lectured, “Being blind is no joking matter. Poor Mr. Joe has to walk around with that cane and that dog Joe Jr. who farts all the time. And he has the most ugly wife on the face of the planet and he does not even know it. It is sad.”

Victor burst out laughing. Then Harry started laughing. Stewart rolled his eyes and then began to hold back his laughter.

Judy asked, “Why are you three laughing? It is sad.”

Elliot said, “Especially when his wife gets angry with him and dresses him weird. I sometimes chuckle at how sad that is.”

Judy giggled. “Yeah, the other day I saw him wearing a floral shirt with pink striped pants. I think Ms. Minnie just has bad taste though.”

Victor said, “I like blind Joe. He and I sometimes play checkers at Paps’ store. He is legally blind but he does have some vision. I am planning on going to his house Sunday and help him do some repairs on his roof and his porch. Jack, do you want to come with me.”

Jack said, “Sure. But isn’t Sunday an odd day to do that. You know you aren’t supposed to work on Sundays.”

Victor said, “I don’t go to church. Sunday is the day I set aside to help people in need to do work around their houses.”

Judy said, “I didn’t know you do that on Sunday’s.”

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