Feel free to chat away, while I whine about my latest computer migraine.
Oh the joy of being me. Both my computers self-destructed tonight (yes, including the new VAIO), and I've just spent the past 6 hours trying to get them up and running. In the meantime, I lost tons of files - woo woo - and bent the ear of Kyle who runs AmIPatriotic.com (Kyle is one of the smartest, and nicest, computer wizes I know). Now my VAOI is stable, still not clear what went wrong (it just went into reboot overdrive, over and over again). And my W2k laptop is back, but now the screen resolution which should be around 1048 x 800 or so, is stuck at 600 x 480 (and when I go into the properties and try to change the resolution, it only offers 800 x 600 as the highest res, and even then it won't stick to that res). Trying to figure why my once great resolution screen is stuck at nil. Then we move on to figuring out why my wireless card won't work.
Oh, technology is a joy.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Sore Loserman in Washington state
Whiny Republican loser in state governor's race won't concede.
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May their children be the first to be drafted
The letters the founder of USA Today got when he suggested that it would be good to get our troops home sooner rather than later:
George Wyman: “Mr. Neuharth is simply UnAmerican.”Ah, red state voters. Somehow calling them fascists doesn't sound so extreme anymore. (Courtesy of Atrios) Read the rest of this post...
Jeffrey A. Norris: “Cowards and traitors like Al Neuharth want all the comforts they know and enjoy, without a sacrifice to buy it.”
Frank Butash, West Hartford, CT.: “Apparently it's easier to run with jackals than to stand up for your country when it needs support.”
Kenneth Genest: “They had two of these in World War 2. One was called Tokyo Rose and the other Axis Sally. Their job was to discourage the American soldiers. I see they have one now at USA Today.”
Walter Scott. Jr.: “You simply suck! Merry Christmas.”
Jerry Martin, San Francisco, CA.: “Yet another self-defeating fool with a large bank account shoots himself in the foot. Their dissent equals treason. The terrorists got him just like all the other rich liberals who side against our victory. They forget that wars end, and then the country takes stock of who was where. I encourage the fool to keep mouthing against our victory over the Muslim jihad, he'll pay the social price in the end.”
T. Conway: “Mr. Neuharth has made a serious business mistake. Watch the circulation drop over the next year. The Los Angeles Times experienced the same drop after they attacked Gov. Schwarzenegger...some never learn. P.S. What side did Mr. Neuharth fight for in WW II?”
Peter Kessler: “And as for the good war, WW II, the lefties were four-square for that one. Yes sir, they were saving the USSR, Stalin and Communism. It's sad we didn't join Hitler until he wiped out the USSR. Alger Hiss and the Uptown Daily Worker (The New York Times) be damned. I see you've joined the club. Well, you're probably a founding member.”
Joe McBride, Fort Dodge, Iowa: “Mr. Neuharth, thanks to you and your ignorance the terrorists are probably booking their flights to the U.S. now! If we pull out of Iraq with the job unfinished the terrorists will be bombing McDonalds, and blowing up malls and schools here, killing our innocent men, women and children.”
Craig Wood, Waianae, Hawaii: “Today's press undermines our troops and supports our enemies. They convince parents that supporting your President is dangerous. They concentrate their ire on any fight that involves the United States and ignore all others. Like the sex scandal in the Congo with United Nations forces…. But, let some Army private put panties on an Iraqi's head and all hell brakes loose….I hope that the people of the United States will ignore or, at least, recognize the agenda of those that choose our enemies over our fine military.”
Duggan Flanakin, Austin, Texas: “Neuharth should be tried for treason along with a lot of other blowhards who should be spending their energies condemning the barbarism of our enemies, the same people who destroyed the Twin Towers. Evidence is pouring in that Saddam financed Al Qaeda with Oil for Food money, and that puts Kofe Annan into the line of fire as well for blame for September 11th. “
Boots Harvey, Brentwood, CA: “One must recall that Churchill had to put up with the likes of Lord Haw-Haw, William Joyce, and his propaganda during WWII. In the end William Joyce was executed for giving aid and comfort to the enemy during war time. Would that the same fate befall Al Neuharth!”
Mel Gibbs: “The Patriot Act will put both of you (Al Neuharth and Greg Mitchell) on trial for treason and convict and execute both of you as traitors for running these stories in a time of war and it should be done on TV for other communist traitors like you two to know we mean business. This is war and you should be put in prison NOW for talking like this. Who the hell do you people think you are? You give aid and comfort to our enemies and aid them in murdering our proud soldiers. You people are a disgrace to America. Your families should be put in prison with you, then be made to leave and move to the Middle East ...You two guys are evil bastards…This is a great Christian nation and god wants us to lead the world out of darkness with great leaders like President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Communists like Al and Greg will soon be in prison and on death row for your ugly papers. We won the election and now you are mad. We own America and all the rights, you people are trash, go back to Russia and Africa and take your friends with before we put you on death row after a fair trial.”
US officials screw Americans caught in Tsunami - Ah, those Bush family values
US officials screw Americans caught in Tsunami.
That was not the case with the U.S. government, Wachs told her mother. It took the couple three hours, she said, to find the officials from the American consulate, who were in the VIP lounge.Read the rest of this post...
Because they had lost all their possessions, including their documentation, they had to have new passports issued.
But the U.S. officials demanded payment to take the passport pictures, Helen Wachs said.
The couple had managed to hold on to their ATM card, so they paid for the photos and helped other Americans who did not have any money get their pictures taken and buy food, Helen Wachs said.
"She was really very surprised" that the government did so little to ease their ordeal, she said.
In an e-mailed response from the State Department, the chief of American Citizen Services said the embassy usually meets and greets every flight personally, but acknowledged there had been confusion the first night in setting up the operation.
SF Judge gets all anti-gay on us
This is really bizarre. The judge in SF deciding the marriage lawsuit has allowed the bad guys to put evidence in the record that gays have a "mental disorder" and that gays can be "cured." But he now won't allow the good guys to put evidence in the record challenging those outright lies. (The mental disorder thing was debunked over 30 years ago, and the "cure" thing, well, lot of evidence out there - not.) The danger, according to the article, is that the appellate court CAN USE this evidence in the record to decide the case against us. So it's rather important to challenge these lies.
And another thing, where the hell do the anti-gay bigots get off accusing us of being mentally disordered? Do they think blacks and Jews are mentally disordered as well? Oh no, there'd be a public outcry if they said that, but when they attack gays, it's ho hum time in media land. And apparently in judge-land as well. Read the rest of this post...
And another thing, where the hell do the anti-gay bigots get off accusing us of being mentally disordered? Do they think blacks and Jews are mentally disordered as well? Oh no, there'd be a public outcry if they said that, but when they attack gays, it's ho hum time in media land. And apparently in judge-land as well. Read the rest of this post...
Bush Holds Press Conference on Disaster - Still Clueless
DEATH TOLL RISES TO 80,000
Bush Administration Response? Equivalent of Five Hours Spending in Iraq
Bush Administration Response? Equivalent of Five Hours Spending in Iraq
After pressure, George Bush both increased aid and went on national television to talk about the human crisis in South East Asia. It took him three days to even start talking about it.
At a time when our nation has an opportunity to take a leadership role in the world, George Bush continues to be dragged kicking and screaming into engaging on this issue. Three days to respond seems reasonable to you? Three days was how long it took the bodies of the dead to decay so badly officials are now burying thousands in anonymous mass graves.
To continue putting Bush's monetary response in perspective, $35 million is what George Bush spends in Iraq in FIVE HOURS. As they say, money talks, bullshit walks. The rest of the world is watching, and George Bush has told everyone in the world how little a priority he puts on this human disaster. Read the rest of this post...
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