Longtime Blogmoc poster “Macker” passed away this morning. I really can’t think of much else to say at this point, although I am relieved he is no longer suffering from cancer I will miss him…
Here’s a thread to remember an old friend…
Macker has passed away…
by The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey ( 96 Comments › )Filed under Blogmocracy at July 11th, 2018 - 8:12 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
May the lord Jesus Christ welcome Josh Spencer into his loving embrace and say to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!”.
I don’t know how to say this so it doesn’t sound ‘wrong’, but I’m glad this was fast. Except I’m sorry we didn’t have more time to know each other better. He was a VERY sweet guy who deserved a much better break than he got. Sweet dreams, Josh, I hope we were the friends you wanted and needed. God speed and rest.
Here is his obit. It says he passed away at the hospital, not hospice.
https://www.filbrandtffh.com/notices/Josh-Spencer
@ eaglesoars:
Do you ever go to Table9Chat? Kirls and I are on there now.
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
never heard of it. link?
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
oh I see it. Chrome isn’t Java-enabled, lemme try firefox, etc.
ok, I’m out. Sad way to end the day. nite.
@ eaglesoars:
Good night, Eaglesoars.
Sad to hear that Josh has passed away. Well done Macker. You’ll be sorely missed mate!
Give IronFist a stir up when you see him Macker and let him know that we’re still here fighting the good fight.
A sad day.
Terrible news about Josh. But his suffering has ended and he is with the Lord. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZiPZwwXhM
Prayers for his family. He’ll be missed.
Hey, does anyone have a link to Macker’s World? I want to write an article for my blog on Josh’s Download City but can’t find a link to it anywhere.
@ doriangrey:
P.S, the link in the sidebar goes to some lawyers website
@ doriangrey:
IIRC, Dorian, I believe he may have let the domain registration on it expire.
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
Damn it, I guess that means all of those wonderful Download City stories he wrote are lost forever, what a fucking shame.
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
Oh, and nice to see you again Osprey…
doriangrey wrote:
maybe not. Osprey, Josh was seeing a woman named Jean/Jeanne from Texas and I believe she said she was a gamer. Josh may have simply moved the stuff to another platform and she may know where. Do you know how to contact her? I know he submitted a script recently to somebody – I have to check my mail for his stuff, I think I’ve kept most of it, not that there was a lot.
I’m about to leave for a few hours, will check back later.
RIP, Josh.
Prayers for the family.
You will be sorely missed.
Well, I’m off in a few to see if I can’t flunk that damned Water meter reader test yet again. Yea, I know, I’m a glutton for punishment.
@ doriangrey:
Remember to give the answer they WANT, not necessarily the RIGHT answer.
doriangrey wrote:
IS THERE GAS IN THE CAR?????
😉
good luck
All I can say is…. OUCH… That’s gonna leave a bruise.
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1017490275613204481
@ doriangrey:
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1017496065912668160
@ doriangrey:
West/Gohmert 2024
Trump just detonated Theresa May
Mr Trump said: “If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6766531/trump-may-brexit-us-deal-off/
doriangrey wrote:
Well, I failed the damned test again. Scored 75 but the cut off was 90. Shit I must be really fucking stupid.
So sorry to hear about Macker. Prayers and condolences for his family.
doriangrey wrote:
What kinds of questions are on the test?
@ doriangrey:
dorian, that’s got to be one strange test. Are there points for race/gender?
AZfederalist wrote:
PPE (Personal protective Equipment) and procedures questions, basic math, gear rotation directions, valve positions nothing really difficult.
eaglesoars wrote:
I have no idea, but I am starting to suspect that there are.
@ doriangrey:
Thanks, Dorian.
doriangrey wrote:
Didn’t he post a couple of them here?
@ doriangrey:
Blogmoc search is your friend:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/?s=Download+City
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
Thank you Osprey.
@ doriangrey:
If i were you, I’d get a copy of that test with your answers and get somebody to show you what answers were ‘wrong’. Because from your description, even I, who can barely operate a screwdriver, could nail 50%
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
effing brilliant
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
Text is still there there but the image links are broken, I guess he didn’t upload the images to Blogmoc’s media library, but linked them off his own site.
@ eaglesoars:
No, we chatted quite frequently via FaceTime after he moved from Arizona back to Michigan, and it was relatively recently that I asked him what happened to the site. He still had all the material on one of his computers though. I remember him talking about his lady friend in TX, but I don’t recall her name, not sure if we linked up on FB.
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
Jean/Jeanne
eaglesoars wrote:
Wasn’t that a David Bowie tune?
@ The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey:
you are a terrible person.
I just went back thru his emails. Her pic isn’t there and I know I’ve seen it so it must be on FB. We talked more than we wrote, so that’s not surprising.
I have to go to bed. nite.
oh jeebus. you have to see this. Peter Strzok
https://twitter.com/Hollybowie/status/1017551128014225413
total creep out
Very sorry to hear about Josh. Prayers for his family and friends. I can say that Josh loved Canada a lot better than a lot of Canadians. He had gaming pals up here and always had a great time visiting.
The Deplorably Irredeemable Osprey wrote:
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/meanwhile-in-download-city/
doriangrey wrote:
Eagle must be right. Stupid you not are. It’s rigged somehow.
doriangrey wrote:
Download City was more of a guy/sci-fi thing imho. I gave you a high five for remembering Josh and his vivid and funny flights of imagination. It is a legacy he would have really appreciated.
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1017617895520493568
ok, I found Jean. She’s in Amarillo. And while I was tracking her down, I found this.
A Family Of Woodchucks Ate Paul Ryan’s Car
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628515994/a-family-of-woodchucks-ate-paul-ryans-car?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
Freedom Caucus members, no doubt.
NOW I can sleep
eaglesoars wrote:
Not to mention the blonde sitting behind Strzok with the reptilian irises.
You aren’t kidding when you said creepy.
@ doriangrey:
Tell them you identify as a disabled gay Hispanic Muslim female.
I don’t know what part of the country you’re in, and even though I’d never recommend the place, the company I’m with does have some ‘at home’ positions. http://www.convergys.com
mmright_wing2 wrote:
Good morning, that’s a winner! Then he can demand special accommodations , halal meals, Cinco de Mayo off,
and special LGBT preferences. A winner!
http://www.zergnet.com/i/3080136/60275/0/0/11397062/3
@ Twitchy
You have to see this GIF. Beware, once seen cannot be unseen.
@ RIX:
Rix, check that link please, there’s no gif there
Godspeed Mackie. I will miss you.
You were always my favorite “client.”
Please give Fist our love.
I’ll be back in a little bit. This is tough to hear.
OMG. Live presser w/Trump and May. Trump taking questions, refuses Jim Acosta. “CNN. We don’t take questions from fake news. John Roberts, Fox, real news”. Acosta yells “We’re real news, too, Mr President”
*snort*
@ The Barbarian:
hey kiddo, where ya been?
@ eaglesoars:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/07/12/wtf-this-was-definitely-the-most-creepy-part-of-peter-strzoks-testimony-the-gif-will-haunt-your-dreams/
Oops, try this
@ RIX:
isn’t that GREAT? The non-gif version is upthread, it’s even worse
gotta get my day started, later
eaglesoars wrote:
He is a creepy dude. Have a great day.
@ eaglesoars:
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually took a break from politics for a bit, even from my podcasts. Was off work for two weeks and my wireless at home crapped out. It was an incredible comedy of errors at this point. Got back to work and two weeks’ accumulation of projects and emails I’m STILL plowing through.
This morning I’m like….what’s missing….and I’m – damn! When’s the last time I checked in with who I consider my REAL comrades on the interwebz?
So to plunge right in…anyone think that the walking turd that is Peter Strzok had a meeting with those Committee Democrats in advance of his appearance and a strategy was plotted to get him through the hearing? The way his handlers kept signaling to the Democrat side tells me a lot. Oh, and way to wrap yourself as the “FBI” you slithering reptile. YOU are not the FBI and maybe Congress can bring up a few agents who loathe what you’ve done to the Bureau and let’s see if the Democrats accredit them with the same sense of duty they accorded you.
I hope purple heart veterans show up at Henry Cohen’s next campaign stop to ask him how a lying, cheating biased human bile duct like Strzok is worthy of the same honor they received for putting their lives on the line.
The Barbarian wrote:
yeaah, whatever happened to the agents who wanted to be subpoenaed so they could testify w/o violating the NDAs?
@ eaglesoars:
My understanding is that the FBI will not “permit” them to testify, which begs the question of what the holy hell is going on at Justice? Wray and Sessions might as well have been appointed by Obama for all the good they’re doing for transparency in this God-awful mess.
The Barbarian wrote:
MY understanding is that if you ignore a subpoena from Congress, they send Federal Marshalls to your house, see Lisa Page. The FBI/DOJ doesn’t get to ‘permit’.
Rosenstein has called a presser for a few minutes from now. Probably more indictments that have nothing to do with anything.
eaglesoars wrote:
12 Russian intel agents. Yeah, they’ll show up for trial.
right before Trump meets Putin, no less.
@ eaglesoars:
If he’s indicting them for hacking the DNC, how does he show evidence?
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
evidence? when have these people ever needed it?
eaglesoars wrote:
this is so predictable. Sen. Mark Warner (moron-Virginia) is insisting Trump call off the Putin summit. Nice work, Rosenstein, your new title is Captain Obvious
@ eaglesoars:
I thought the exchange between the Chairman and the Democrat Asshat and his “point of order” regarding Strzok answering the harmless question of “did you conduct ANY interviews” was telling. Those Congress critters were under some pretty strict orders to block lines questions – even if they looked completely ignorant in doing so.
Oh indeed, if you or I ignored a Congressional subpoena to appear or to produce documents we would certainly find ourselves in front of the nearest District Court Judge to explain why we didn’t have to comply. But watching Strzok testify (if you could even call it that – since he seemed to be performing), judging from his smirking and body language, he looked like a dickhead who had “nothing” to worry about.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Oh I see. Will there be indictments of the Chinese then, that have hacked all of our other servers at DoD, etc.? Interesting indictments, since it’s only the DNC’s word that it was the Russians and it’s well known that intelligence agencies can leave “footprints” that direct you away from the actual hackers.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
@ The Barbarian:
you know, I didn’t catch what the actual indictments are for other than ‘meddling’. That’s a legal term I hadn’t heard before but what do I know. ‘hacking’ and ‘DNC’ may have been uttered but I didn’t catch it.
I need to go back in time to the moment somebody showed my Dad how to group text and disrupt it somehow.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m trying to remember in what part of the U.S. Code “Meddling” is a chargeable office. I don’t think it lives in tort law – the courts would be far more crowded than they are now.
@ The Barbarian:
ok, I get it. These indictments do indeed cover the DNC hacking. It’s Mueller’s way of closing the door on it because everyone indicted is in Russia and Mueller can throw up his hands and say ‘whaddya gonna do?”. He just shut it down.
And the timing isn’t too obvious or anything either.
eaglesoars wrote:
He HAS to shut it down. He doesn’t have the server does he? Any defense would want to be able to examine it and they can’t.
@ eaglesoars:
Absolutely. Because Mueller is going to have severe chain and custody of evidence problems if he actually had to prosecute them. The servers were manipulated by a PRIVATE company after the hack. Julian Assage has stated unequivocally that the emails did not come to him from Russia.
Mueller will slink his skanky ass off after the November election if the Dems fail to retake both Houses of Congress. His dreams of impeachment of Trump will be gone. Articles will not be entertained in the House and he can forget about the Senate.
At that point, Rosenstein should be FIRED for cause.
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1017617895520493568
1678 votes cast so far. 84% for prosecuting Strzok, 16% against.
The Barbarian wrote:
You’re referring to Crowdstrike, I believe. I read Donna Brazille’s book. I think she was honest in it, any factual errors are based on her misunderstanding of how computers work, not an intention to mislead.
I know how computers work. I read that book and if I were the investigator, I’d start with Crowdstrike. To me, it looks like an inside job. Crowdstrike did the hack, and got itself hired to ‘fix’ it.
Rest in peace Josh ‘Macker’ Spencer.
@ doriangrey:
I believe Strzok’s texts BROADLY implied that he was leaking information to CNN. If so, then he most certainly CAN be prosecuted. And I imagine that there are some career FBI and DOJ people that would be very happy to undertake the effort.
@ eaglesoars:
It wouldn’t surprise me. I also wonder if they used Crowdstrike because the FBI’s computer forensic guys would have uncovered the Con-men from Pakistan’s machinations of the server.
The Barbarian wrote:
This is all smoke aned mirrors, just like the other case Mueller and company filed against the Russian’s. Its all bluff and bluster in the hopes that the Russian’s won’t show up. You would think Mueller and Rosenstein would have learned the first time.
This is getting old fast. Remember ‘Lance Kates’ from the swamp. Passed yesterday. Apparently quite young, 38. That’s all I know. ‘Ma Sands’ posted on the Lizards in Exile FB page.
@ doriangrey:
Trump should vow to bring them back with him.
Damn. I don’t remember him but that’s way too young.
@ eaglesoars:
So sad. I remember him.
Shale country is out of workers. That means $140,000 for a truck driver and 100% pay hikes
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shale-oil-boom-20180608-story.html
doriangrey wrote:
https://twitter.com/DrGrey91721741/status/1017891732770340864
eaglesoars wrote:
I remember Lance. A very nice fellow if my recollection serves me correctly. Always civil and had a bit of a funny bone.
@ The Barbarian:
yes, he was funny. We did have to educate him about the roots of the Civil War, tho. He was young.
If anybody is interested in Smarty Marty Armstrong’s opinion of Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, PLEASE read this. Not only is Armstrong a genius & a historian, he has had considerable skin in the Justice game. In short, hell no.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/the-disturbing-reasoning-of-judge-brett-kavanaugh/
@ yenta-fada:
I’ve read various versions of this since his nomination. What people are missing is that the problem isn’t with Kavanaugh’s ruling, as they think, but with the anti-injunction act itself. THAT is bad law.
one glorious minute of a French guy not realizing he just surrendered – again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUN36UG8JaQ&feature=youtu.be
eaglesoars wrote:
Makes sense he wants to exclude Trump because “he always wins”. French haven’t won anything in centuries. Last time they did win, they were fighting themselves, so only some of them won.
eaglesoars wrote:
Meh… He’s French. It’s in his DNA to surrender. He probably surrenders to his pillow at night when he’s asleep.
AZfederalist wrote:
Mais non, mon cher!
They were all in the resistance! They ALL won! Viva le resistance!
They still think they’re in ‘the resistance’. Refuse to receive the head of state of the country that foots 70% of the bill to the NATO summit.
pure genius.
I’m going to bed. good nite, sweet dreams.
RIP Macker.