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Apologies to anyone who attempted a trackback in the last day. Send failed tbs to me for me to include in a hard-linked roundup this weekend, OK?

Well, I know I shoulda asked Mama Diane*s*, first, but I jumped on a hosting package from [the Unamed Hosting Service] and followed through with specific directions from the friendly doof at Fatcow support (to make sure I did things their way). And the problems began piling up.

*sigh*

I’m back on “temporary” hosting at the “old” hosting account (not mine, a generous gift), and everything is temporarily OK, pending some “Level 2 Techs” at [the Unamed Hosting Service] finding someone competent to fix their server issues. Yeh, I have the emails from “Level 2 Techs” saying the problem IS fixed (though it was not). (And I have the error log showing where they didn’t competently do what they said they had done.) Lesson learned: NEVER switch a domain over until EVERTHING is confirmed to work properly. Silly me. But I did have some fun chewing new orifices for some folks who tried bullshitting me over the phone.

Clouds, silver linings and all that. All grist for a curmudgeon.

Oh, and the inclusion of this post in the “Sex!” category? That was just to see if anyone was paying attention. My sex: male. There. Now it’s a legitimate categorization.

After submitting a rough draft of my proposed T-13 to a few folks, I realized–from the feedback–that I need to state and refine the basis for the Thirteen I proposed posting. So, here’s a “placeholder thirteen”–

Thirteen things on my desk:

1. 2 computers (only 2 at present).

2. 2 monitors–both bulky CRTs with great resolution and display characteristics. But only two, even though one comp’s set up for multiple displays.

3. Yadayada–two sets of mice/keyboards. KVM switches

4. Three sets of speakers.

5. table lamp.

6. Palm cradle and Palm.

7. An 1880s vintage Buffet Clarinet (partially disassembled)

8. Decorative beer stein stuffed with an assortment of conductor’s batons.

9. A small stack of bare hard drives.

10. Printer

11. Phones

12. Couple of different kinds of surge suppressors and a UPS (yes, ON the desk, it’s 3’X6′)

13. A couple of spindles of CDRs and DVDRs, assorted spindles of already written optical media.

I could go on. But that’s what my desk is like when it’s “cleaned off”–*heh*

Pegged to the board at the Thursday Thirteen Hub

The American Family Association is conducting an online poll among a self-selected population that consists of folks who consider themselves “traditional values” kinda people (whatever that means). Here are the results so far:

Islam and America Poll Results

Do you consider Islam to be a peaceful religion?
Yes 3,525 No 47,880
Do you consider Islam to be a tolerant religion?
Yes 2,011 No 49,295
Would America be a better country if it were a Muslim country?
Yes 277 No 50,991
Should America place equal emphasis on the Koran and the Bible?
Yes 1,196 No 49,955
Would it be good for America to have more Muslims in elected offices?
Yes 1,248 No 49,739
Would you vote for a Muslim for president?
Yes 1,130 No 49,916
As a general rule, are women treated better in America than in a Muslim country?
Yes 46,789 No 4,306
Is America too dependent on Muslim countries for oil?
Yes 49,125 No 1,951
Do Muslim countries do more than America to help the poor?
Yes 1,180 No 49,576

What’s so troubling about these poll results? That ANY within a self-selected population of “traditional family values” would consider Islam a “religion of peace” (MHWA), tolerant, etc. Dumbasses. To call such a view stupid is an insult to stupidity. That it can be found at all among AFA readers/adherents is a sign that the Islamic Fifth Column’s disinformation—spread by Mass Media Podpeople, politicians *spit*, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and Loony Left Moonbats—is being allowed all too free a rein in the piublic arena.

Expect a post on something like, “When is it wrong to be polite?” sometime soon as a followup to this one.

Soon.

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May I submit for your consideration the following as evidence that America is sliding swiftly down the slipperly slope greased by Mass Media Podpeople, Loony Left(tard) Moonbats, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and politicians *spit*:

Campaign (using taxpayer dollars, of course) to get Amish to accept food stamps.. Hmmm, “What can we do to convince a group of people to deny their heritage, turn their backs on the principles that are the bedrock of their culture and become suckling pigs feeding at the public teat?” Yep. Sounds about right, eh?

*sigh*

The fedgov had apparently been trying for most of a year to get Swift to stop hiring illegal aliens… had warned the company over and over and over again that a raid was coming. And still over 1,200 illegals were arrested in the sweep last month.

And all the jobs filled with Americans by the end of the month–jobs President Bush tells us Americans won’t do…

But has the fedgov clamped down in similar fashion on Tyson and others? Not yet. Oh, BTW, before the raid, over 400 Swift employees had taken their lil selves out of the picture and hotfooted it elsewhere–many of them taking their families home, where they are legal residents. Clamping down on companies that hire illegals (and congresscritters who do, for that matter) would do even more to create an actual defensible than simply building a fence and patrolling it.

Instead, we have the example of Swift NOT cleaning its own house because… well, who would believe that a fedgov presided over by an administration that has actually done LESS (by an order of magnitude!) than the Clinton administration to enforce immigration law would, well, actually, you know, take steps to enforce the law??? Who could blame Swift for not believing the promised raid would actually take place? The feds have shown much more interest in harassing common citizens for the past five years than in enforcing our borders.

The Imam Scam isn’t going to go away anytime soon, and it WILL end up making our country’s citizens less secure, if masses of citizens do not rise up and tell our congresscritters to grow some balls (or at least fake having some). One guess which way I think it’ll go… *sigh*

Need I go on?

More later.

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Flannery O’Connor summed it up pretty well:

“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.”

Since more and more Americans are stunted by poorer and poorer education, mind-numbed by mass media and drugged by consumerism, making rational arguments from fact is a difficult, and often impossible, task.

When talking to politicians *spit* blinded by massively greedy ambition, the task becomes much more difficult by several orders of magnitude…

Hence the shouting, chest-thumping, rock throwing and BIG BANGs that sometimes take place here at twc.

To get a mule’s attention, sometimes you first have to…

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Well, 2006 began with a semi-large personal bang—Diane’s gifting of a new home and new togs for the old Blogger-based third world county. As 2006 wended its way filtered through twc curmudgeonry, recipes, gripes, commentary, linkfests, horses and fawns (yes, still the all-time “most read” post at twc–go figure :-)), and Mohammed in a Pink Dress all made their appearance here, along with appearances by multiple excellent guest bloggers.

2007 will feature more of the same, and even more (reasoned) curmudgeonry. Expect a post–soon–on why personal attacks aren’t always bad things, for example. *heh* No sugar coated truths or sugar coated lies here. (That’s one problem with talking nicely to barbarians, poltroons and politicians *spit*. With so much sugar coating going on, it’s sometimes difficult to discern between the truth and the lies, for many folks.)

So, hang on. We’re in for a bumpy ride. And I’m gonna be kicking and screaming and calling names all the way.

🙂

(And no, in spite of this post’s time stamp, I did NOT stay up to “see in” the New year. It can find its way on its own with no help at all at all from the likes of me.)

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Continue reading “Welcome to 2007/OTP”

Faultline USA has posted an idea whose time is now. 🙂

Nominate a Blogger for a Halo

The “Blogger’s Halo Award” WILL go to the blogger who has not only created a vital up-to-the minute blog with a sizable readership and dedication to excellence, but this blogger would have gone way beyond the call of duty by demonstrating a selfless commitment to help other bloggers solve their blogging problems.

As I commented on the post linked aboive, “For me, THE standout has been Diane, of Diane’s Stuff, Dead Guy on the Sidebar and just recently (Saturday, in fact Oops! Friday. :-)) The Trouble With Angels. Basil (Basil’s Blog) of the famed Basil’s Haloscan/Blogger Hack and other helpful goodies for bloggers on various platforms and Harvey of Bad Example have also been standout examples of those who have been exceptionally helpful to many folks.”

So, click on over to Faultline USA and submit your fav blogger “angel” for a halo.

And so it was done.

Well, two bloggers I enjoy a lot, Diane and Mel, have decided to overcome their recent blogging slowdown by joining forces in a new blog, The Trouble With Angels. I’ll not take Diane’s Stuff or I’m Just a Girl off my blogroll (cos they’re not disappearing, just not… gonna be all that active), but do pop over to The Trouble With Angels and drop Diane and Mel a line.

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Traveling to visit family and back over the Christmas weekend, we saw some solid evidence of the enstupiation of America. Exhibit #1: a billboard–a HUGE billboard with a correspondingly HUGE picture of the advertised product, a 72-oz steak. The evidence that Americans are becoming enstupiated almost beyone salvation? The disclaimer: “Steak not shown actual size.”

This is a continuation of yesterday’s partial posting of Chip Stam’s Worship Quote of the Week for this week. Visit Chip’s site for more Xmas*-related offerings.

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PHILIPPIANS 2:1-8 (NIV)
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

HOLD FAST TO THE HUMILITY OF GOD (Augustine)
All that springs from the humility of this sublime moment [the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ] is grasped by the faith of Christians, while far from the comprehension of the godless; since God “has hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and revealed them to the little ones” (Luke 10:21).

So let the humble hold fast to the humility of God, so that this wonderful support may, like a beast of burden, lighten the burden of their weakness, and they may arrive at the heights of God. As for the wise and prudent, they aim at the loftiness of God without believing in his humble lowliness; and so, by overstepping his humility and reaching his loftiness, they have remained, empty and weightless, inflated and elated, dangling, as it were, at a windy middle level between heaven and earth.

They are indeed wise and prudent, but in the affairs of this world, not of the one by whom the world was made. Because if they were possessed of the true wisdom, which is from God and is God, they world understand that it was possible for flesh to be taken on by God without his being changed into flesh; they would understand that he took to himself what he was not, while remaining what he was; and that he came to us in a man without ever departing from the Father; and that he continued to be what he is, while appearing to us as what we are; and that his divine power was confined in the body of an infant without being withdrawn from the whole mass of the universe.

—Augustine of Hippo (354-430), from a Christmas sermon preached in the year 396, as found in PROCLAIMING THE CHRISTMAS GOSPEL: ANCIENT SERMONS AND HYMNS FOR CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATION. Edited by John D. Witvliet and David Vroege. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004, page 30. ISBN 0-8010-6405-8

“O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.”

“Where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in.”

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I’ll have something to say about humility, “meekness,” and blunt speech in days to come, so hold on, readers, cos we may be in for a very bumpy ride… 🙂

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