"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
So, Budweiser’s on the sales block, and the deal’s as good as done eh? Much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth by those who see this aquisition of an American icon by a Belgian company as a harbinger of American decline.
Horse puckey. We sell America to Middle Eastern terrorist backers to the tune of $50billion/year. What’s so hard about selling a company that makes their beers with a “unique filtration process” (water through horses?) to a company that makes skunky ales?
The really scary thing about the presidential race this year is that Obama’s managing to do two things:
1. Attract a LOT of enthusiam from idiots who are too stupid to actually parse his poorly-spoken, halting utterances (which, being idiots, they think are examples of great public speaking *feh* Ya can hear better from po’ boy country preachers any Sunday ya wanna wander out into the sticks) and realize that the only substantive content that can be educed or torturously exegeted from them is: “More government, taking more of productive folks’ money to give to slackers”; “I’ll deny playing the race card every single time I play it”; “America sucks, and so do you.”
2. Almost make Juan Mexicain look good. Almost.
Now aren’t either one of those things enough to make you fear for the restoration of the republic?
Compgeeky stuff: As much as I like the simpicity of its interface, ease of configuration and ease of installation as compared to VMWare’s offerings, I’ve finally had to admit that VirtualBox just isn’t up to snuff. The killer? This box has two 64-bit processors. The VirtualBox app installed is for 64-bit processors. When attempting to install 64-bit WinXPP, the install fails with an error message that I’m attempting to install a 64-bit OS on a 32-bit computer. *feh* Mouse/keyboard capture is more elegant in VB, and its fullscreen mode is nicer, but not being able to install the legal copy (as in, “fully licensed, unused anywhere else copy) of XP available to me right now (XPP-64-bit) is too much. Oh, I think I’ll still keep it around to try out various Linux/BSD distros in a VM, but since one of my essential uses for a VM is havin g an XP machine around to use as a reference–w/o having to dedicate extra space, etc. to actually having an XP machine phyysically on my desktop or use a KVM switch, etc.–VirtualBox just won’t do.
VMPlayer seems “good enough” for now for having an XP reference machine available for those times I need to walk someone through some dialog boxes or use Logmein instead of VNC to actually access a remote computer (depends on the remote user as to which option will work :-)).
Of curse (yeh, I feel like cursing), some bugaboos simply must rear their heaqds… *sigh* My NIC, which was “seen” by XP running in VirtualBox is unusable in XP running in VMWare Player… so far. And there’s no sound, either–not from either sound card. But at least everything else works well enough for its primary purpose: walking folks through dialog boxes in XP acurately via remote whatever. The network card would make Logmein easier, though (if for no reason other than continued experience with the “host” end). Well, I’ll either find an answer or not. *heh*
It must just be me, but the Mass Media Podpeople’s Hivemind hagiography of deceased Mass Media Podpeople (Russert, Snow most recently) strikes me as more than just kinda smarmy and self-serving. Heck, I’m sure Russert and Snow were decent enough guys, although Russert lost my respect in recent times with his softball approach interviewing some politicians and Snow lost me completely with his disengenuous defense of the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty bill as “not an amnesty bill”. Sure, it was the guy’s job to parrot the party line, but I used to think he had some integrity.
And I’m sure he did have some. But. The fawning of Mass Media Podpeople whenever one of their own passes away is a more than a little repugnant. Maybe it’s just me. Yeh, I’m sure it’s just me, right?
And Russert and Snow will certainly be missed by their families. R.I.P., guys.
At least Michelle’s left Barry his d*^% to step on. No balls for Jesse to “cut out,” but he sure can make outrageous statements (the “Learn Spanish” response to folks who assert English ought to be confirmed as the official language of the U.S. as a recent example) and then step on his own d*^% in an even more outrageous (and completely dsingenuous) defense of his “outrageosity” *heh*. What? WE ought to learn Spanish, but HE doesn’t speak a foreign language? Well, of course. Just as WE should be taxed to starvation but not HE and his “class,” right? (BTW, Barry, while I’m not fluent in Spanish, French, German, Italian or Greek, I can at least read those languages–albeit not fluently and with a bit of struggle from long disuse. Where were you when foreign language classes were offered, bubba? Dumbass. )
Oh, and speaking of Obamassiah’s dumbass comments, what about his energy/oil remarks, recently? What?!? Because (he says–although he apparently knows little or is flat-out lying about the effects of new drilling/production on oil prices) oil/gasoline prices might not be immediately affected by lifting bans on drilling for oil in our own known reserves, lifting those bans ought not to be done at all? Hmmm, isn’t that consonant with the Clintoonista argument ten years ago? The Dhimmicrappic argument for the past 5-7 years? What if… what if those known reserves had been tapped in the past 5-10 years making the U.S. NOW independant of foreign oil? What kind of barrel would the Saudis and other terrorist supporters have us over now? None, of course.
Barry’s argument is like saying, “Starting a savings/investment account/stragegy now won’t pay off for retirement for 20 years or more, so why start one at all?”
Idiot. And the idiots who listen to him and shout their agreement from the amen corner of The Church of the Obamassiah are even bigger idiots than he is.
And he knows it and is counting on it that they are idiots.
Because he knows if idiots weren’t allowed to vote 90% of our elected officials would be out of work. Including, very obviously, Barry Hussein Obama.
At the very least.
For alla you Star Wars fans (and not-so-fans *heh*), this:
And lastly, an ironic look at the mindset of pseudo-liberals poking fun at legitimate concerns about the Obamassiah’s love of Islamic terrorists, he and his wife’s distinct and well-documented “blame America first!” attitudes, etc.
Hmmm, The Obamassiah and his acolytes are offering far too many easy shots recently, aren’t they?
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