Big Three Bailout

Don't get me wrong - I hate the Big Three automakers, but I do feel sorry for their workers, sorta:

"The Senate said, we'll give you the loan only if the factory workers take a $20 an hour cut in wages, pension, and health care. That's right. After giving BILLIONS to Wall Street hucksters and criminal investment bankers—billions with no strings attached and, as we have since learned, no oversight whatsoever—the Senate decided it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America." -- Michael Moore

What I really hate is Wall Street Socialism. It was SO EASY to bailout the Wall Street gamblers; I suppose their jobs really mattered to our Congress. No, here's an idea -- maybe our Senators and Representatives should take a pay cut, and maybe loose their free healthcare, too.

Hero

"A fighter jet on a training flight careened into a suburban neighborhood in the Californian city of San Diego Monday and slammed into two homes, killing three people. The pilot safely ejected, officials said." - Reuters

Another hero - better than Bush, worse than Cheney.

Bah, f-ing humbug. Which family has a Merry Xmas?

Medal of Freedom

For Kenneth Adelman, "the most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former C.I.A. director] George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and Jerry [Paul] Bremer—three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key spots.

Mr. Bush, the little Shrub, thought those folks deserved honors.

I piss in his pissy direction.

I hate commercialism, and Wal-Mart, too.

Can we please arrest and jail everyone who participated in this years fatal Black Friday Wal-Mart trampling?

Obama

OBAMA!

Oh yeah -- Joe The Plumber's family was on welfare - twice. The direction of redistribution matters, I suppose. What a pissant.

More Upper & Lower Filter Crap

I just fixed a problem where Windows Media Player wouldn't burn a CD (although InfraRecorder would) by removing Upper & Lower Filters. Things have gotten out of hand!

Liberals not human?

OK, I'm a liberal. From the Wikipedia article: "Liberalism is a political ideology that seeks to maximize individual liberties."

And that'll get you killed in the good old US of A:

"A Powell man sits alone in a jail cell following a fatal shotgun rampage in a church prompted by a hatred of liberalism and Democratic leaders who have hamstrung the nation's war on terror, records show."

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/29/suspects-note-cites-liberal-movement-church-attack/?partner=yahoo_headlines

Yup, loving individual liberty is a killing offense. Just ask Hannity, or Coulter, or Jim D. Adkisson. Adkisson is the man that went to a children's performance at a Unitarian Universalist church, armed with a shotgun and several boxes of shells, to kill him some liberals. Y'know - the folks that are keeping him and good people like him from realizing their potential as Patriotic Americans. He didn't have a job, and was loosing his food stamps, so he went to make a mark on the folks who he had heard were responsible. M. Malkin says he must have been a closet liberal, trying to make the conservative movement look bad but I don't believe her gook ass at all. He just was a nut, who listened to talk radio all day, and got pissed. Thanks, Sean, Ann, and addict Rush. Y'all keep hating, and stirring up the haters. "Real Americans" hate us liberals, for our liberty, just like the terrorists do.

My Mama once said to me "those poor UUs, they don't know what to believe". Well, they believe in goodness and liberty and universal truth. I've actually been an example atheist at a UU service. Not one of them wished me to hell. I just can't imagine why anyone would hate Liberty, anymore than Truth, Justice, and The American Way.

Where in hell is Superman when we need him? Oh, yeah - "apparent suicide" - "dead, lying across his bed, naked and face-up, his feet on the floor...9mm Luger pistol fell between his feet". Noel Neill knew better. So does Ann Coulter. She knows who killed the American Dream, and in spite of what she says, it wasn't liberals. The American Dream had an "apparent suicide", helped along by Nazi weapons such as Coulter, Malkin and Hannity.

RIP, Land Of Liberty. Liberals Not Allowed.

Crackergate

I've been following PZ Myers' crackergate recently, and this came up:

If you think that a cracker literally becomes the body of J. Hussein Christ

You might as well believe some ex-nazi in Rome has moral, intellectual, and ethical supremacy over you. You might as well think a 2000 year old legendary dead semite whose blood you drink and flesh you eat can make you live forever. You might as well believe that you can be a lying, obnoxious, venomous, disrespectful human being, but if you go to a house of worship on a given day of the week and confess these acts to an idiot who is likely to be a pedophile, your behavior is forgiven.

If you think the friggin' Pope-a-Nazi is in-friggin-fallible, you're an idiot.

Upper Friggin' Filters

Yet another Windows machine with an "Upper Filters" optical drive problem today. What good are these things? I read online that they let drive authoring software have direct access to the hardware drivers, but maybe that's not such a good idea. I guarantee that the Windows Registry was not a good idea. What was wrong with .ini files anyway? And Globally Unique Identifiers may be fine for computers, but they sure are tough on the human mind.

Worked from 7AM to 6PM, and didn't get enough done....

Busy lunchtime

Hard day today. Lotsa shop work, lotsa on-site work, and lotsa visitors. Maybe I even hurt some feelings today, but it's not easy to miss lunch. So it goes.

Fixed a Sony laptop with a MemoryStick problem. Wincrap would not boot until I disabled the proprietary MemStick, and it took hours to figure out what to disable. How in hell can something like that work one day, and be a buggering bastard the next? Sony used to have some Halo Effect because of their consumer electronics, but not no mo. I'd rather have an eeePC laptop myself.

The new iMac is pretty cool. Granddaughter had a smile on all day.

iMac

Our new iMac came in today. Too busy to do much with it. Kinda interesting not to have to immediately load virus protection before I dare get on the web. I did put OpenOffice on it. Eagerly awaiting FireFox 3 tomorrow.

I'm a Father???

Went in to work today to rearrange furniture and check a blackmailware case I started on Friday afternoon.

Had a Fathers Day visit from my stepdaughter and granddaughter. Wife made a cake, and I'm making beef tips and rice for supper.

First Post

First post.

I hate Malware. I fight it daily. The idea that some crapper in Ukraine can take over someone's PC, disable Task Manager, Regedit, and even the Start Menu is just too much for me to take. Who gave them that right? Simple answer: Microsoft. There are so many ways to hide unwanted crap inside the registry (the devils work!) that it's just pitiful.

So, MS's answer is Vista. Yeah, right. A worse solution I could not imagine. It's just a Republican version of XP.

We're waiting on a Mac. Lets see how that works out, since Linux doesn't see to be marketable to any extent. I'll sure use Firefox on it, and OpenOffice, and GIMP. OpenSource is the way to go, for User software, IMHO. Maybe I'll install Picasa and other Google apps, too. Not OpenSource, but free, as in beer. We'll see....