Third World County Weather Note

I’m keeping a weather eye on the creek out back (yeh, yeh, pun intended), because, with the steady rain, it’s now closer to the house than at any time in memory–now “wetlands” about 125′ from our basement door. So, if twc goes offline in the next couple of days and your trackbacks/comments aren’t being approved, just bear with me, OK?

Let’s see… burlap bags filled with absorbant kitty liter around the base of the back (basement) door? Maybe…

😉

At least the cable and power lines aren’t being rained out. So far.

Update: Well, we were more fortunate than some of the folks downstream of us, and th waters pretty much passed us by. Although the flood warnings continue for our area (indeed, our town) and the low-water bridge a quarter mile away is still under water and the flood plains (where most of the new housing in town has been built in the last decade–*sheesh!*) is swamp land, the creek that’s about 200 feet to our west that had approached as closely as 60 feet from our basement door has abated. The river–about 1.5 miles to the south–is still cresting though, and the folks who “built their houses on sand” in the flood plains there are in for more fun with shovels, wet vacs, new carpeting, etc., in the next few weeks. It’s what flood insurance is for. Makes me not mind the annual premium so much. *heh*

Obama’s “Yo-yo-yo-yomama race card” speech

I have not previously commented on Obama’s asociation with his church and his spiritual mentor, “Reverend” *spit* Wright. Yeh, I view the use of the term “reverend” in association with the racist bigot whom Barry Hussein Obama-Winfrey NOW calls his “former pastor” to be an abomination. His actual statements of bigotry and hate-filled spews from the pulpit need not be reviewed further here. By now, you’ve probably viewed them on YouTube.

But Barry Hussein Obama-Winfrey’s speech excusing his association with Racist Bigot Wright is a piece of work I can’t pass up. Read it. [h.t. Right Voices]

OK, back, now?

Now we (“…few, we happy few, we band of brothers”? *heh*) know what Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope,” is really about: the audacity of lies, bigotry and arational emotional appeals.

This speech. *sigh* Finally, Obama unequivocally playing the race card, implicitly making himself the “affirmative action” candidate he swears he is not.

Obama, take a listen: the outcry against the bigotry of your pastor, against his damning of America in broad strokes, against his blanket condemnations of whitey and imagined widespread oppression of blacks by whites in America is the point (the simple facts point to widespread oppression of blacks by blacks–including racist hatemongers such as Wright who manages the con by faking that he is helping blacks while inciting even more separation from American society as a whole). It is his racist bigotry and your bland acceptance–nay! “audacious” excusing!–of it that is the point. Saying you condemn what you falsely characterize as rare, isolated comments while explaining them away is not condemning them nor does it explain why you sat idly by and said not one word of opposition to such things until it blew up in your face.

BTW, “TedintheShed’s” comments at Right Voices in a pointed indictment of a central lie in Obama’s “Yo-yo-yo-yomama race card” speech:

“Did I (Obama) ever hear him (Wright) make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.”

Doesn’t this directly contradict what was said before? In the interview with Major garret on Fox, didn’t he say he never heard these contraversial remarks while in church?

Well, yes, as “TedintheShed” points out, it does:

“None of these statements were ones that I had heard myself personally in the pews. One of them I had heard about after I had started running for president, and I put out a statement at that time condemning them”

And that’s yet another reason Barry Hussein Obama-Winfrey is unqualified to be president: he can’t bluff worth a damn. Gee, I’d love to play poker with the guy. Of course, any winnings of mine would probably be condemned by Racist Bigot Wright as whitey oppressing the po’ black man.

Obama, you had better major on hope, because blind, irrational hope is all that can shield you from the consequences of your audacious lies.


Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Right Truth, The World According to Carl, Miss Beth’s Victory Dance, The Pink Flamingo, Stuck On Stupid, Leaning Straight Up, Right Voices, Gone Hollywood, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Yet another vote against “upgrading” to Vista

*heh*

Installed Turbo-Tax on the Vista machine. The execrable Vista will not recognize any of my DVD drives as CD drives, and thus would not install; so I shared an XP drive, mapped to it on the Vista machine, and installed using a networked CD. Vista is not really ready for prime time, and nothing I can do will get it to believe that either a read only drive, or a perfectly good Plextor R/W drive, is also a CD drive. DO NOT “UPGRADE” your XP machine to Vista!!!!

Oh, yes. Every time I have to work on a client’s Vista machine I have to watch my BP. I’m glad (I think–I have annual B&Ms about TurboTax) Pournelle did get TT installed finally, but I understand his frustrations. ANd there are multiple reports that Vista SP-1 “breaks” apps that once worked with Vista pre-SP-1, along with driver issues continuing (and in some cases worse) from pre-SP-1.

But mind you (from Pournelle again) Apple’s iPhone has some issues. Here’s one:

If there is no service — when there really is service — this is potentially serious, is it not? I have no idea of what to do about it, except that if you get no service, try restarting the phone. Note that reboot is the usual remedy for many Windows problems. Is Apple learning from Microsoft? Stay tuned.

*heh* “Is Apple learning from Microsoft?” Very funny.

In other OS news, Kubuntu 7.10 has a few more wrinkles to iron out and hoops to jump through than plain vanilla Ubuntu 7.10, but I like the interface better, so I put up with it. Still, installing WINE is a snap in either, and using my Windows version of Portable Opera (on a Memorex TravelDrive) is transparent. Oh, a minor puzzle for the Portable Opera under WINE: for some reason all web pages display in a non-proportional, seriffed font that is NOT the way it dosplays in Windows–nor does the Linux version of Opera on the same machine display that way. I’ll puzzle that one out later.

(Duh. The fonts specified under Windows aren’t available. Simply had to specify fonts that were installed on this box. Shoulda remembered that. Oh, I can make the Windows fonts available to WINE, but it’s just easier for now to use the fonts already installed.)

For the proverbial Aunt Tilly, I believe plain vanilla Ubuntu 7.10 is really about ready for prime time, but Kubuntu 7.10 is for folks who are just a little more ready to dig into the thing and do some of the scut work of getting it set up juuuust so. “Out of the box”–so to speak–plain vanilla Ybuntu 7.10 is a easier for a non-techie to tweak–the Synaptic installer is easier to use than the Adept Package Manager (and much easier for non-command line folks than apt-get *heh*).

I like either.

But for ease of setup and just using the computer, PCBSD 1.5 is just about as good as it gets, IMO. From bare drive on an old 1.3 Ghz compute to installed and up and running in about 20 minutes? Yes. Installing apps is easy-peasy, too. Easily passes the “Aunt Tilly” test. And yes, you can give it all the eye candy of Windows Vista or OSX, if you really want to. With less hardware overhead.

Interesting times.


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