Wednesday - October 29, 2008

Dear Mr. Obama

A guest post by Carol, who sends me emails all the time. Thanks Carol.




Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008
From: “Dennis”
Subject: A MUST READ… PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE TRUTH

To Barack Hussein Obama,



The New York Times carried a story on Saturday, October 4, 2008, that proved you had a significantly closer relationship with Bill Ayers than what you previously admitted.  While the issue of your relationship is of concern,
the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.

The Chicago Sun reported on May 8, 2008, that FBI records showed that you had a significantly closer relationship with To NY Rezko than what you previously admitted.  In the interview, you said that you only saw Mr.
Rezko a couple of times a year.  The FBI files showed that you saw him weekly.  While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.

Your speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, about ‘race’ contradicted your statement to Anderson Cooper on March 14 when you said that you never heard Reverend Wright make his negative statements about white America.  While your attendance at Trinity Church for 20 years is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on March 14.

In your 1st debate with John McCain, you said that you never said that you would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea without ‘preparations’ at lower levels ... Joe Biden repeated your words in his debate with Sarah Palin ... While the video tape from your debate last February clearly shows that you answered ‘I would’ to the question of meeting with those leaders within 12 months without ‘any’ preconditions.  While your judgement about meeting with enemies of the USA without pre-conditions is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America in the debate with McCain.

On July 14, 2008, you said that you always knew that the surge would work while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you stated that the surge would not work.  While your judgement about military strategy as a potential commander-in-chief is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on July 14.

You now claim that your reason for voting against funding for the troops was because the bill did not include a time line for withdrawal, while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you voted against additional funding because you wanted our troops to be removed immediately ... Not in 16 months after the 2008 election as you now claim.  While your judgement about removing our troops unilaterally in 2007 is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about your previous position.

You claim to have a record of working with Republicans while the record shows that the only bill that you sponsored with a Republican was with Chuck Lugar ... And it failed.  The record shows that you vote 97% in concert with the Democrat party and that you have the most liberal voting record in the Senate.  You joined Republicans only 13% of the time in your votes and those 13% were only after agreement from the Democrat party.  While it is of concern that you fail to include conservatives in your actions and that you are such a liberal, the greater concern is that you distorted the truth.

In the primary debates of last February, 2008, you claimed to have talked with a ‘Captain’ of a platoon in Afghanistan ‘the other day’ when in fact you had a discussion in 2003 with a Lieutenant who had just been deployed to Afghanistan.  You lied in that debate.

In your debates last spring, you claimed to have been a ‘professor of Constitutional law’ when in fact you have never been a professor of Constitutional law.  In this last debate, you were careful to say that you ‘taught a law class’ and never mentioned being a ‘professor of Constitutional law.’ You lied last spring.

You and Joe Biden both claimed that John McCain voted against additional funding for our troops when the actual records show the opposite. You distorted the truth.

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted against funding for alternate energy sources 20 times when the record shows that John McCain specifically voted against funding for bio fuels, especially corn ... and he was right
....  corn is too expensive at producing ethanol, and using corn to make ethanol increased the price of corn from $2 a bushel to $6 a bushel for food.  You distorted the truth.

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted like both of you for a tax increase on those making as little as $42,000 per year while the voting record clearly shows that John McCain did not vote as you and Joe Biden. You lied to America .

You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time when you know that Democrats also vote 90% of the time with the President (including Joe Biden) because the vast majority of the votes are procedural.  You are one of the few who has not voted 90% of the time with the president because you have been missing from the Senate since the day you got elected. While your absence from your job in the Senate is of concern, the greater concern is that you spin the facts.

You did not take an active role in the rescue plan.  You claimed that the Senate did not need you while the real reason that you abstained was because of your close relationships with the executives of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide, and Acorn ... who all helped cause the financial problems of today ... and they all made major contributions to your campaign.  While your relationship with these executives and your protection of them for your
brief 3 years in the Senate (along with Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and Chris Dodd) is of concern, the greater concern is that you are being deceitful.

You forgot to mention that you personally represented Tony Rezko and Acorn. Tony Rezko, an Arab and close friend to you, was convicted of fraud in Chicago real estate transactions that bilked millions of tax dollars from the Illinois government for renovation projects that you sponsored as a state senator ... and Acorn has been convicted of voter fraud, real estate sub prime loan intimidation, and illegal campaign contributions.  Tony Rezko has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to your political campaigns.  You personally used your political positions to steer money to both Tony Rezko and Acorn and you used Acorn to register thousands of phony voters for Democrats and you.  While your relationships with Rezko and Acorn are of concern, the greater concern is that you omitted important facts about your relationships with them to America.

During your campaign, you said: ‘typical white person.’ ‘They cling to their guns and religion.’ ‘They will say that I am black.’ You played the race card.  You tried to label any criticism about you as racist.  You divide America .

You claim that you will reduce taxes for 95% of America , but you forgot to tell America that those reductions are after you remove the Bush tax reductions.  You have requested close to $1 billion in earmarks and several million for Acorn.  Your social programs will cost America $1 trillion per year and you claim that a reduction in military spending ($100 billion for Iraq ) can pay for it.  While your economic plan of adding 30% to the size of our federal government is of concern, the greater concern is that you are deceiving America.

The drain to America ‘s economy by foreign supplied oil is $700 billion per year (5% of GDP) while the war in Iraq is $100 billion (less than 1% of GDP).  You voted against any increases to oil exploration for the last 3 years and any expansion of nuclear facilities.  Yet today, you say that you have always been for more oil and more nuclear.  You are lying to America.

Mr. Obama, you claimed that you ‘changed’ your mind about public financing for your campaign because of the money spent by Republican PACs in 2004.  The truth is that the Democrat PACs in 2004, 2006, and 2008 spent twice as much as the Republican PACs (especially George Soros and MoveOn.org).  You are lying to America.

Mr. Obama, you have done nothing to stop the actions of the teachers union and college professors in the USA. They eliminated religion from our history.  They teach pro gay agendas and discuss sex with students as young as first grade.  They bring their personal politics into the classrooms.  They disparage conservatives.  They brainwash our children.  They are in it for themselves ..... not America .  Are you reluctant to condemn their actions because teachers/professors and the NEA contribute 25% of all money donated to Democrats and none to Republicans?  You are deceiving America .

Oh, Mr. Obama, Teddy Roosevelt said about a hundred years ago that we Americans should first look at the character of our leaders before anything else.

Your character looks horrible.  While you make good speeches, motivating speeches, your character does not match your rhetoric.  You talk the talk, but do not walk the walk. 

1.  You lied to America.  You lied many times.  You distorted facts.  You parsed your answers like a lawyer.

2.  You distorted the record of John McCain in your words and in your advertisements.

3.  You had associations with some very bad people for your personal political gains and then lied about those associations.

4.  You divide America about race and about class.

Now let me compare your record of lies, distortions, race baiting, and associations to John McCain:  War hero.  Annapolis graduate with ‘Country first.’ Operational leadership experience like all 43 previously elected presidents of the USA as a Navy officer for 22 years.  26 years in the Senate.  Straight talk.  Maverick.  54% of the time participated on bills with Democrats.  Never asked for an earmark.  The only blemish on his record is his part in the Keating 5 debacle about 25 years ago.

Mr. Obama, at Harvard Law School, you learned that the end does not justify the means.  You learned that perjury, false witness, dishonesty, distortion of truth are never tolerated.  Yet, your dishonesty is overwhelming.  Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty that caused the impeachment and disbarment of Bill Clinton.  Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty of Scooter Libby. You should be ashamed.

Mr. Obama, it is time for us Americans to put aside our differences on political issues and vote against you because of your dishonest character.  It is time for all of us Americans to put aside our political issues and vote for America first.  It is time for America to vote for honesty.

Any people who vote for you after understanding that you are dishonest should be ashamed of themselves for making their personal political issues more important than character.  Would these same people vote for the anti-Christ if the anti-Christ promised them riches?  Would they make a golden calf while Moses was up the mountain?  Would they hire some one for a job if that someone lied in an interview?  Of course not.  So why do some of these people justify their votes for you even though they know you are dishonest?  Why do they excuse your dishonesty?  Because some of these people are frightened about the future, the economy, and their financial security .... and you are preying on their fears with empty promises ...  and because some (especially our young people) are consumed by your wonderful style and promises for ‘change’ like the Germans who voted for Adolf Hitler in 1932.  The greed/envy by Germans in 1932 kept them from recognizing Hitler for who he was.  They loved his style.  Greed and envy are keeping many Americans from recognizing you ... your style has camouflaged your dishonesty .... but many of us see you for who you really are ... and we will not stop exposing who you are every day, forever if it is necessary.

Mr. Obama, you are dishonest.  Anyone who votes for you is enabling dishonesty.

Mr.  Obama, America cannot trust that you will put America first in your decisions about the future.

Mr. Obama, you are not the ‘change’ that America deserves.  We cannot trust you.

Mr. Obama, You are not ready and not fit to be commander-in-chief.

Mr. Obama, John McCain does not have as much money as your campaign to refute all of your false statements.  And for whatever reasons, the mainstream media will not give adequate coverage or research about your lies, distortions, word parsing, bad associations, race baiting, lack of operational leadership experience, and generally dishonest character.  The media is diverting our attention from your relationships and ignoring the fact that you lied about those relationships.  The fact that you lied is much more important than the relationships themselves .... just like with Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon ... Monica Lewinski and Watergate were not nearly as bad as the fact that those men lied about the events ...  false witness ... perjury ...  your relationships and bad judgements are bad on their own .... but your lies are even worse.

Therefore, by copy of this memo, all who read this memo are asked to send it to everyone else in America before it is too late.  We need to do the job that the media will not do.  We need to expose your dishonesty so that every person in America understands who you really are before election day.

Mr. Obama, in a democracy, we get what we deserve.  And God help America if we deserve you.

Michael Master
McLean, Virginia

   Thursday - October 16, 2008

FAKE MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY.

I get the Tuesday Patch on Wed here, and this arrived in Thurs. email.

While tech things not usually my forte (but I’m in there trying to learn. Slowly. ) I simply wondered how many have seen this and are aware.

My guess is that most BMEWSers would be aware of something in email anyway.  Even I know about that. BUT ..
hey.  Just on the off chance that even one hasn’t caught this and might get nailed, I thought I should post the article and the link.

October 14th, 2008
Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading

Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 3:00 pm

Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too :

“We received some questions from customers about an e-mail that’s circulating that claims to be a security e-mail from Microsoft. The e-mail comes with an attached executable, which it claims is the latest security update, and encourages the recipient to run the attached executable so they can be safe. While malicious e-mails posing as Microsoft security notifications with attached malware aren’t new (we’ve seen this problem for several years) this particular one is a bit different in that it claims to be signed by our own Steve Lipner and has what appears to be a PGP signature block attached to it. While those are clever attempts to increase the credibility of the mail, I can tell you categorically that this is not a legitimate e-mail: it is a piece of malicious spam and the attachment is malware. Specifically, it contains Backdoor:Win32/Haxdoor.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2027

   Wednesday - October 15, 2008

FYI

We all owe a debt of gratitude to Peiper. Because of his post earlier today, BMEWS did NOT miss out on Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty.

What is Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty?

Today thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue - poverty. We aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!

I’d like to initiate action by expressing my concern for the greedy poor like the Crompton family. . .

scroungers.

Awareness raised. Action taken. Web shaken. . . well, maybe only stirred.

Good work Peiper! (and there was much rejoicing. Yaaayyy.)

UPDATE: Apologies. I forgot the warning:

This post, while not about Europe in any meaningful sense, does reference a post about Europeons.

There. Must.not.upset.Walt.

   Monday - October 13, 2008

The Obama Kenya Thingy

It’s all over the Right side of the internet. “New evidence shows that Obama may have been born in Kenya!  He may not be a Natural Born Citizen!” There are even videos (thanks Rancino):

Ok, fine. Let me ask the pertinent question: And Then? 

Say it does turn out that his unusual birth circumstances preclude him from running for the job. And Then? The election is less than a month away. Maybe Hillary could exercise a in New Jersey, but that won’t fly in all the other 56 states Obama is running in.

So ... And Then?
What if the Democrats don’t have a candidate on the ballot? Gak, you thought they screamed and ranted over “selected not elected” in 2000? You ain’t heard nothin yet! Riots, guaranteed.

So even if Oblarney does get the old heave-ho, Hillary can not step in at this point. And the public will have a shit fit like you’ve never seen. The time to prove his citizenship and his other bona-fides was two years ago, and that information should have been made public at that point, with witnesses and notable experts backing it up. Now it just looks like a last ditch dirty trick, even though the lawsuit has been in place and slowly grinding forward since the middle of August. It was too late then as well.

My prediction: nothing will come of this. At all. And if the plaintiff in the lawsuit (Phil Berg) didn’t get some kind of injunction to lock down the records in Hawaii, then so much time has passed that a thousand perfect forgeries could have been snuck into the records. And don’t you doubt that that happened for a second.

Getting Odickwad tossed on a technicality like this would be sweet sweet irony though, since that is exactly what happened to those running against him in his primary for Illinois State Senator, which he won in 1996 by running unopposed. Or his win to the US Senate in 2003, when he ran against lunatic fringe UltraConsersvative carpetbagger Alan Keynes of Maryland (what, you thought I’d say Keynes was a token candidate? Ha!) after Jack Ryan* was forced to withdraw because of scandal.

* Biggest Jerk In The History of the World according to the Man Show Encyclopedia.

   Monday - September 08, 2008

Let’s Have An Argument

Potato? Potatoe? Who can really say? (Well, I can. Dan Quayle can’t). But if you’re looking for a discussion ... or an argument ... there is a new web site. They’ve sent me a few emails already, asking for a mention. So, Ok, here’s a mention:

“Opposing Views”: Issues, Experts, Answers


Opposing Views lets you see both sides of the issues. Get as much information as you can to help you make up your mind. Listen to bona fide experts lay out the pros and cons of the things that are on people’s minds these days. Join in the discussions via the comment areas so your voice can be heard as well.

I think there might be some need for a web site like this. Not everyone has the time or the inclination to learn about everything. Most people have a gut feeling about most issues, but I’m certain many of them would like some facts and some more information to back that up. After all, you won’t last long in a big discussion if your only input is “I don’t like it”. It’s possible that OpposingViews.com could give you some reinforcement.

They contacted me because The Gun Thing comes up here at BMEWS quite often. It seems that all of us, so far anyway, have the same views on this one. But that doesn’t mean that some of our readers share them. Well, fear not, “some other readers”, you can voice your viewpoints here ... but I hope you have more information than just your gut feelings to go on, because people will give you an argument. And that is how it should be. So maybe OpposingViews.com can help.

In their email, they mention that

The unique thing about OpposingViews.com is that we have well known experts debating about issues of the day. You can find an argument anywhere, but it’s not everywhere that the debaters are actually vetted experts.

I would point out that almost everyone that I know who is involved even slightly in the Second Amendment “issue” (placed in scare quotes because it isn’t an issue: it’s part of being an American, and until just one or two generations ago was accepted as such. Common knowledge. But common knowledge isn’t very common anymore) has become an expert to a very large extent. We seem to know about a whole slew of court cases, judicial viewpoints, law, firearms knowledge, idiocy at the BATFE, history, etc., and also have a very high awareness of the disinformation campaigns out there, who is behind them, and why. That’s about as expert as you can get without actually working for CSI (and even those guys were weak in the Jayson Williams case).

But what if the question is not guns, but “do mercury preservatives in infant inoculations cause brain damage/ADD/AIDS/Alzheimer’s/Autism (pick one)?” then I’m not really sure. Do they? Don’t they? What kind of research has been done/is being done? How big a sample population are we talking about? What about other countries? How do local pollution levels factor in? Is it worth the risk to have my kids get the shots? What if all the other kids get inoculated, wouldn’t my kid then be safe without the shots? Many public schools require them before letting a child attend, but what if I homeschool? Maybe OpposingViews.com can help me learn the answers to those questions. (although I already know that plenty of BMEWS folks know. I’m pretty sure this one came up a year or two back).

Sure, you can Google all of it up if you have the time. And it can take a lot of time. And you have no way of knowing if what you find is right, wrong, real, or pure BS done up with a lovely green bow. Because Any Fool Can Publish On The Internet. This is what OpposingViews.com is all about. Both sides, right now, from reliable sources. Read, learn, decide. Pretty cool? Or pretty silly? Your call. But look first, then decide.

   Saturday - August 09, 2008

Damn You Firefox: haha! I win!!

I just installed the latest (and first I think) update to Firefox. It’s a “security” update. Yeah right. Like every other software update out there, I expected it to retain my settings and preferences. Nope.

It went an changed all my about:config settings, and all the other changes I’ve put in place. So now I’m back to the thing opening with two tabs, one for Welcome To Firefox! and the other my homepage. And I’m back to having the useless Google Search bar. And I’ve lost the extra buttons I put into the menu bar. And I’ve got that damn Most Visited thing back. And it’s reactivated that really @#$%^%&^% annoying Address Bar auto-fill thing again.

So I have to go look it all up again, hunt down all the bits and pieces, and make the changes all over again. Once bitten, twice shy: next time they have an update I’ll make copies of the key setting files first. Rotten bastards.

UPDATE - solutions found

You can get rid of the Google Search bar by going to Tools, then Toolbars, then Customize. A gray box appears with a bunch of icons in it. Reach up to the Google Search thingy with you mouse, and drag it into the gray box and let go. Ta da, it’s gone. You can get rid of the Most Recently Visited button or the Bookmarks Toolbar button the same way. I added the New Tab to the right of my homepage icon just by dragging and dropping.

You can get rid of that extra toolbar line up top by right clicking it. It’s called the Bookmarks Toolbar and you just uncheck the thing. Bye bye.

You can disable the address bar’s highly annoying AutoComplete feature this way:
Go into Windows Explorer and run down the directory tree until you find C: \Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile. In the profile directory create another directory called chrome. Go to the chrome directory. Create a file there named UserChrome.css. Follow the instructions located at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox, which are to add this text to the file:
/* Remove autocomplete dropdown */
#PopupAutoComplete > .autocomplete-tree { display: none !important; }
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker { display: none !important; }

and then save and close the file. Next follow the instructions for modifying about:config , located at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talk:Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox:

Set all of the following values to 0 (zero) in about:config

* browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
* browser.urlbar.matchBehavior
* places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus
* places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus
* places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus

If you haven’t used about: config, you just type about:config in Firefox’s address bar and hit Enter. This brings up a big list of the settings. Scroll down until you find the names listed here, then right click on that item. A little pop-up appears ... select either the Modify or Toggle choices. Set the value to 0, click Ok. When you’re all done just close the tab. It’s self-saving.




By this point you will have opened and closed Firefox a whole mess of times. Are you still seeing the Welcome To Firefox screen as your first tab? Or, if you have done the update, are you still seeing the Update Complete screen as the first tab? If you are, does it bug the piss out of you? You will NOT find a way to disable this in any of the settings. It’s what is called an “in-product” page. Which means the program is programmed to go there. So, find a disgruntled programmer to find a fix. That’s me.

This is how to kill that one forever IF you have done the update. If you haven’t done it yet, read on. it’s a similar solution:

In the (windows XP) directory C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref there is a file called firefox-branding.js . Go there, find the file. Now just to be safe, copy that file to firefox-branding.js.original.txt

Next, edit the firefox-branding.js file (any editor will do. Wordpad works great): comment out the first 2 lines that read

pref("startup.homepage_override_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");

so that they now read

// pref("startup.homepage_override_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
// pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");

save the file. Restart Firefox. No more Welcome! or Update Complete! tab. All you should see is your homepage. (this is a BMEWS exclusive tip. I searched; it ain’t out there anywhere. So I figured it out myself. Unless Firefox chose exactly that moment to stop showing these screens? They were in some other file in the pre-update version. I forgot where. Go hunt it down; it’s at or near the top of the file. Look for the en-us string followed shortly thereafter by the \welcome string [in other words, it’s a partial match for the URL that this annoying tab opens]) It could be in a .pref file, it could be in a .js file, it could be in a .ini file. But it’s only in 1 file, so you have to go on a treasure hunt.

Of course, if this blows up, (it shouldn’t) go back and remove the “//” comment symbols from those two lines. Also, if you start getting Java Console errors, you can take out the UserChrome.css lines you put in ... AutoComplete will run in the background, and just won’t show you any results. That’s a little wasteful, but it is a lot less annoying.

*********************

None of these tweaks has caused me a problem so far.

   Monday - July 28, 2008

We’re #1 !! We’re #1 !!

New search engine CUIL.com premiered today. Pronounced “cool”, this one was developed by ex-Google people. In theory the thing has indexes to far more web pages than Google does. We’ll see. Naturally Rancino put it to the test, and up comes the following:

Looks like they’ve got it mostly right: BMEWS is the NUMBER ONE result for “moonbat”. We even get the first tab. Unfortunately, the pages that cuil has indexed are rather old; one dates back to 2004. Oh well. Hey, it’s nice to get a #1 for the blog for ANY reason!

   Friday - July 11, 2008

Music for the mesmerized masses

CNN just slightly behind the times
but still on track with the approved agenda

I caught a bit of whatever CNN calls its morning show today. They were running a little puff piece on the Obamessiah, about all the songs performers the world over have written in support of him, and isn’t that just awesome?? So many from so many different places; here’s just two examples from the Caribbean; look how Obama is connecting with people from all over ... blah blah blah gak. I wasn’t fully conscious at the time but I’m pretty sure they managed to puff the segment out to cover at least 5 solid minutes. So much ado about nothing. 

Now, when I first get up and I’m starting to inject that first cup of coffee, I don’t want hard news fired at me. Give me a couple minutes to come to life. Let me just sit there and watch Robin Meade smile and move and blink those big brown eyes and shake all that hair ... let that all just seep down to my brain stem, so that my first actual thought of the day is “how the hell does she cram those happy sweater puppies into that blouse?” That’s not a bad way to wake up at all. So a little background music fit into that really well.

Somewhere around the second cup the words started to soak through. Some of the lyrics from the first tune, done by reggae singer Cocoa Tea:

Wow. A chant for the masses. No, it’s got nothing to do with race at all. Which is why the entire song is about being black. Huh? But it’s a catchy tune. Pretty good.
Now for those of you who have your brains in gear a bit more, the second one, performed by The Mighty Sparrow, who is the calypso star, is amazingly explicit:



Wow, that’s a whole brain full of points in just six and a half minutes. I will give The Mighty Sparrow major props - this is some really deep stuff, wrapped up in a happy little tune. Amazing.


Little Barry is running an amazing campaign. He has the media so deeply in his pocket that all they need to do is turn their heads a little to see if Jesse Jackson has cut his nuts off yet. I think John McCain has a polka tune out. Probably on a 78rpm record, and performed by the Wheezing Wobblers down at the Senior Center. Send in a few box tops and his campaign will mail you a copy, 4th class postage. I hear is quite the swinging tune.


And here is an interesting thing: these Obama tunes have been around for months and months. Sparrow’s tune was cut almost an entire year ago, and Tea’s piece came out no later than early March. I wonder why CNN waited so long to run the news? It almost makes me wonder if they have a huge pile of stories all lined up and choreographed, set to be aired at specific times ... ah, that sounds too much like a conspiracy theory. Which would imply they’re turning themselves inside out to support this commie. Couldn’t happen. Not in America.


Obama ‘08: America needs the RIGHT guy, not the White guy

   Monday - June 30, 2008

Firefox Annoyance

Does anyone know how to get rid of this thing? Every time I start up the new Firefox, it opens two tabs. The first tab is for their Welcome Page, the second tab is for my homepage. I’d rather not have that first tab at all. I looked through the various chrome and preference .js files, but I didn’t see this one. Maybe I’m not looking for the right thing?

I went through their website and didn’t find an answer, so I activated their online chat room assistance thingy. I sat in the queue for about half an hour, and the instant I got to the top of the queue it bounced me out. Gee, thanks.

It’s a small annoyance on an otherwise great browser. One of the super things about Firefox is that it’s so customizable, so there has to be a way to turn this off. Does anyone know how?

UPDATE:  I fixed it. All it took was reading through a few dozen of the JavaScript files to realize that the “What’s New” page is their branding page and is on by default. Then all I had to do was to edit the branding file and turn it off. Details in the comments. Cool.

   Thursday - June 19, 2008

FireFox 3

Firefox fans download 9,000 copies a minute

In just five hours, the new version of the Firefox Web browser had as many downloads as its predecessor got during its entire first day, the software’s developers say.  Firefox 3 reached 1.6 million downloads by early evening Tuesday to match Firefox 2’s first-day downloads. In the opening hours, Firefox’s Web site was distributing nearly 9,000 copies of the free software every minute. Downloads continued Wednesday as Firefox supporters sought to set a world record for most software downloads in a 24-hour period.

Pretty neat. Pretty obvious a huge number of people want some alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Users of Yahoo Inc.’s mail service can also use Firefox 3 to send e-mail by clicking a “mailto” link they might come across clicking on a name or a “contact us” link on a Web page. Previously such links could only open a standalone, desktop e-mail program.

Really? Super. To use the Yahoo mailer, go to Firefox’s Tools button, click Options, go to Applications, then scroll down to “mailto”. Then select Yahoo from the pulldown on the right. I ran a little test and I noticed that a complex mailto with parameters doesn’t work properly: the cc=, bcc=, and the body= text disappear, and the subject= text winds up in the address line. Also, the word “mailto” shows up in the TO field, and that ain’t right. So if anybody knows how to fix this, let us know.

Let’s see ... what else? Ah. Firefox’s status bar tells me more of what is going on on a webpage than Netscape did. I notice that the Dilbert comic strip here seems to reload all the time. As much as I like old Dilbert, that seems to be a bandwidth suck, and he might go. Also I see this “pagead2.googlesyndication.com” thingy which I want to look into. I don’t like not knowing what my blog is doing.

   Tuesday - June 17, 2008

On your marks, get set,

“With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.”


Looks like the new version of the Firefox browser is ready to go. And they better have some major servers ready to handle to bandwidth loads. Join the hordes and get your tomorrow.

   Tuesday - June 03, 2008

May not be exactly the place for this but, it’s Tech and it’s interesting

It’s interesting for those like myself who aren’t too familiar with things on the geeky side.

It’s been months and I’m still struggling to understand HTML and various other Drew type stuff.
So anyway ... I stumbled on something I found in a computer magazine over here.  And btw, they really do have good pc mags here.

So, altho some may already know about this but since I only just found it, I’m to assume there might be others like myself finding things new in Tech that even I understand.

http://animoto.com/learn_more

Animoto dot com and it is awesome.  They have a free and a pay version and you can get a quick 60 second video and then see their blog with more info.

I suppose if you’re very much advanced with videos and photos and photo editing etc., maybe they’re too basic for ya.  Tell you what tho.  I’d love to buy stock if they had it (don’t know), that’s assuming I discover a gold mine or somethin.’

And then I found:

A company that it turns out is based in France.  I heard that groan guys but come on.  Neat software that’s free doesn’t have a nationality.
Specially if the audio is a lady with a cute accent that’s understandable.

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

I suppose those with some experience already know about this too.  But I didn’t until I visited Animoto.  And they also offer ,

Convert between different graphic formats

Configurable compression/resolution ratio

Support file formats: Jpeg, gif, bmp, tiff etc

Support Digital Camera RAW formats: Canon .CR2, Nikon .NEF , .MRW Minolta

Handle single picture or batch mode

Customizable templates for renaming files

You can add your own watermark file

Reduce size photos perfect for web publishing/share photos by email
Integrate in windows explorer or works as a stand-alone application

Fast processing
Import directly from your memory cards

Save history of destination folder
Variable options and settings for advanced users

Multilingual support (available languages...)
Optimized for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista

I’m at the still learning and it’s damn hard stage so all this stuff impresses me.  Especially when I find I can understand some of it.
(except that damn HTML thingy. )

Finally ......  I discovered the Safari browser today. WOW! it is fast.  Now then, is there anyone out there using a Mac or Safari on a PC that can tell me
how the heck you get shortcuts on the toolbar for websites you visit often?  Like BMEWS?  Use Firefox or IE (which I’d rather not) and easy enuff to drag the link up there.  Not so in Safari.

   Friday - April 11, 2008

I sent an email

One email is a lonely thing.

Dear Cafe Press

Thank you for having someone go through your designs and deleting some of the pro-rape designs. Too bad you still have a rape-humor category. I hope that one gets cleaned out as well.

There is nothing funny about rape. Any designs you carry that imply such humor, or imply rape in any positive way, such as your “No means Yes” design, your “You can’t rape the willing” design, or your “Chloroform. It’s my move” design, should be removed.

I know that most of the designs are submitted by people who don’t work for Cafe Press. And I know that when you have tens of thousands of designs it gets hard to keep track of them. And I do consider myself to have a very broad sense of humor ... but these design cross the line from humor to psychosis. Please continue cleaning up this area.

I like Cafe Press, and I buy things from you once in a while, and I don’t want to see your business get a bad name. To that end I think you should continue acting in a socially responsible way. Just do it a bit faster.

Thank you.

To be fair, Cafe Press has deleted several of these designs. But the category has over 16,000 designs. And while some of the designs are gone, their thumbnails still remain. I am not pulling one of those Leftist “I don’t like what they say so let’s burn down the printshop” suppressions of free speech. But I am saying that sometimes a business needs a little reminder now and again to Do The Right Thing.

h/t to Safer Campus and to In Jennifer’s Head. And I’m pretty sure I got there from a commenter atRachel Lucas. And it’s out at The Lizard Queen and The Curvature. Blogswarm !!

   Wednesday - April 09, 2008

How much rope would it take?

Teen beaten to make video

Today’s big story is about another sick crime committed by utterly heartless and moronic teenagers. It’s all over the news. It’s the story about the beating Victoria Lindsay was subjected to. It’s not “another Girl Fight video” as some channels have reported. It’s attempted murder purely for kicks. And for video fame. I really don’t give a crap what the charges are, this was an attempt to kill, for a minute or two of fame on YouTube. The talking heads on television are saying this young high school girl was beaten even after she was unconsious. By her friends. That’s attempted murder. Murder One too, as it was a fully planned conspiracy on the 8 “children” who took part in it.

Lindsay has bruises, a concussion and damage to her left ear and eye, although her family said she is expected to recover.
,,,
The tape shows Lindsey being beaten and taunted as other teenagers shout in the background.

All suspects face charges for false imprisonment and battery. Three of them were charged with kidnapping because, the sheriff’s office said, they forced Lindsay into a car and drove her to another location after the beating.

The suspects were identified as 17-year-old Mercades Nichols, 17-year-old Brittini Hardcastle, 14-year-old April Cooper, 16-year-old Cara Murphy, 17-year-old Britney Mayes and 15-year-old Kayla Hassell. Zachary Ashley, 17, and Stephen Schumaker, 18, were identified by deputies as the lookouts.

The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That’s when the sheriff’s office started looking into it and learned about the video. The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he’s never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home. When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend’s house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim. On the video, the girls can be heard encouraging the fight in the background, even taunting Lindsay to fight back, all while one of them held the camera. The victim’s family has said it was an elaborate plot to injure and embarrass Victoria Lindsay. Lindsay’s parents couldn’t believe their daughter had to endure the attack.

Police said Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend’s home.  One of the girls struck her on the head several times and then slammed Lindsay’s head into a wall, knocking her unconscious, according to an arrest report.  Later, according to a clip of the video that was released by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the teens can be seen blocking a door and hitting her.

Two males, Ashley and Schumaker, allegedly acted as lookouts, police said.

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said the girls had such little regard for the consequences of their actions—while they were in the holding cell, one allegedly remarked to another, “I guess this means we won’t be going to the beach.”

Another asked, “Does this mean I’m going to miss cheerleading class?”

Principal Hatch says, in his 30-plus years working with kids, times are scarier now than ever before.  The girls told Polk deputies they were getting Tori back for talking trash about them on her MySpace page. Their plan—they say—was to stage the fight and post it on You Tube for revenge.

The trial should last about 7 minutes. The “alleged perpatrators” were so smart they videotaped the entire thing and then published it on YouTube. Game over. Guilty. Should these poor little kiddies who were just trying to embarass this girl, not really hurt anyone, be charged as adults? Without question. If you’re old enough to be in high school you’re old enough to know right from wrong. Even the two standing outside as lookouts, specifically put there to make sure the sound of screaming wasn’t too loud. Charge them with the real thing, conspiracy to commit murder, with a torture and kidnapping rider. Charge them all equally, find them all guilty. Then take them outside and hang them, and leave their bodies to rot in the wind. Film the whole thing. And put the video up on YouTube.

These “children” are complete and total failures as human beings. 3, 5, 10, 25 years in prison isn’t going to teach them a damn thing. They are soulless bastards without the slightest shred of compassion for another human being. I don’t give a flaming rat’s ass if they’re 14 or 45.

And for financial penalties? Now let’s turn things around and say that, because they were all under 21, the parents are fiscally responsible. Strip the parents of every last cent they have. Convert every asset they have to cash, right down to selling the clothes on their backs at a garage sale. And every penny goes to Victoria. Not a dime for the lawyers. Then throw the parents into solitary confinement for 3 years, with no human contact at all, no TV or radio, not even a book to read, so they have ample opportunity to focus on their utter failure as parents. Any other minor children these people have get thrown to Social Services forever.

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