Author: David

Over-educated Curmudgeon, Bit-Bucket Tuner and Budding Brewmeister.
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Browsing the Interwebs

*heh* I’ve wanted to use the term “interwebs” for a while but just didn’t have a good place to drop it in…

This is just a drive-by hit on my least favorite browser. On the Win7 “side” of this computer, my IE8 title bar reads, “M$ Internet Explorer–not quite as sucky as earlier versions, but still, do you REALLY want to use this pig?”

The answer, of course, is “No, and I only do so when someone has a question about what to do as a result of their lazy, poorly-considered decision to use Internet Exploder.”

😉

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ISP Woes… Again (Still) *sigh*

Again, Warning: May Bore You To Tears Compgeeky Gripe ahead. See further down the page for other posts. 🙂

What’s with these folks? I can’t even get a SpeedTest.net page to fully load without (many) multiple reloads, and though I can get PingTest.net to load after a few tries, it returns:

PingTest-01

This after nearly a week of “not too bad” on the interruption of service front. Yep. Once again my ISP says they’ve fixed their problem… and haven’t.

Oh. Well.

(BTW, it took a couple of hours to post this, with autosave unable to even save a draft or uploading of the image you see here working until after about eight attempts (with complete system/network reboots and all the other things I could do to attempt to wake up the ISP’s servers.)

Micro-mini-update: 4 days later. Worse today. Two calls to phone support. One, the gal wouldn’t take the ice pick out of her ear and kept saying she couldn’t hear me (riiiiiight; she responded when she wanted to). The next, the guy didn’t try that ploy, but, although he could see drops on my line, he could do nothing, as usual, but schedule a tech to come by and waste both my time and the tech’s to simply tell me–AGAIN–that there’s no problem in my equipment and that the problem’s still on their end… *sigh*

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The Witch Doctor

Well, The 0!’s song and dance still looks and sounds swell to the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, but the IOC is “a bunch of racists” and have given his song and dance the hook offstage. Looks like he now has to find other ways to slip his payback to the Daley machine and its cronies.

Oh, like this is all that surprising. When The 0! isn’t using TOTUS, his best sounds like

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang…
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang

All sound and fury, signifying nothing. And that’s on one of his good days!

As Jerry Pournelle said just today,

“I am not impressed with the competence of this administration’s diplomacy.”

Hmm, seems like he’s not the only one, eh?

Continue reading “The Witch Doctor”

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About That Feddle Gummint “War on Drugs” Thingy

More and more my thinking on that quagmire, the so-called “War on Drugs,” gravitates in the direction articulated by Jerry Pournelle recently,

I am still looking for which Article [or] Amendment gives Congress this authority, or indeed the authority to outlaw any drug whatever. We know they can’t outlaw liquor, because they had to get the Eighteenth Amendment passed in order to implement the Volstead Act and implement Prohibition, and that Amendment was repealed. I once asked Speaker Gingrich which Article let them outlaw marijuana (federal prohibition; no one doubts that the States have that power). He couldn’t tell me, but “It’s all different now.”

Yeh, “It’s all different now,” meaning, “We don’t need no stinking Constitution”?

There’s an interesting post over at LinknZona that I’ll need a fresh infusion of my own drug of choice (coffee) to re-read, but I don’t recall anywhere in it seeing the fundamental legality of federal drug regulations entering into the discussion. It seems to me that Pournelle’s right: if we needed an amendment (since done away with) to declare ONE drug outlawed, where in the Constitution is the authority to outlaw a large number of different drugs?

Meanwhile, when are the feebies going to articulate an exit strategy from the War on Drugs?

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An Argument for Going Slowly on Instituting New Legislation

Each new bill before Congress haqs the potential for expanding the bureaucracy to implement the bill and, Das Buros steht immer, that is, once a bureau or agency or arm of the “feddle gummint” is filled with bureaucraps, the shit just never seems to get hauled out (bureaucracies tend only to expand, not contract–or even disappear when the ostensible reason for their creation disappears).

That alone, it seems to me, is reason enough to proceed very, very slowly when about to create a whole new bureaucrappy, like that which would accompany “feddle gummint” illegal (unconstitutional) meddling in health care delivery.

Oh, and then there’s the whole enumerated powers thing that congresscritters seem to have (deliberately) swept under the rug. “Look over there. Don’t mind that Constitution thing we’ve hidden behind a curtain of bullshit.”

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Essentials…

…for surviving dealing with politicians *spit*, Mass MEdia Podpeople, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and other Loony Left Moonbats through the end of 2009 and beyond:

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Build on these essentials with other items–perhaps a full hazmat suit.