"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."
*sigh* AGAIN I heard some idiot speak of a “one month anniversary*“.
*feh*
I blame it on the schools, lax parenting (by exceptionally stupid parents) and the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind, in part. The rest I blame on people who are willfully dumber than a bag of hammers.
*the “anni” part of the word means YEAR. One year, two years, three years, four… NOT “month” or “week” or whatever other idiotic word choice enstupiated dumbasses decide to place in proximity to “anniversary”.
Apparently some wires got crossed at M$ and some M$ofties posted a date for the Win7RC release…
One has to wonder just how much of an accident this was, though, since a technical release presaging the RC is already floating around. Still, it’s nice to know that the very first release of a new OS from Microsoft that’s held any sort of positive interest for me may well be on track for a Q3 RTM. Oh, it’s not quite good enough to pry my hands off Ubuntu (or perhaps another of the ‘nix OSes I’m still trying out–like Linux Mint or even–if it matures quickly enough–LinuxMCE), but it looks like an excellent candidate for a HTPC I want to piece together this summer, especially if the TVServer portion of MediaPortal works out well enough. (Still testing/trying that out on Win7 beta.)
Anywho, it would have been nice to see the actual page while it was up, but at least there’re text/screenshots at the link. Missed it by that much.
Just an observation: all the O! knows how to do is run for office. He’s never held elective office where he actually did anything… except run for re-election or another office… or write a book about how wonderful he is. Now that he’s president, all he can do is continue to say, in essense,
“Vote for [me], [I] confuse cause and effect, mix up issues, and solve problems by tackling something else instead!”*
It seems to me that sums up the O!’s entire agenda; everything else is just the details of poorly-thought-out socialism by way of corrupt Chicago politics.
*The statement was adapted from “The Skeptic’s Handbook,” a manual for sensible people to use in debating members of The Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming on the subject of carbon dioxide’s role in global warming.
For SJ Reidhead (and others who are inclined toward listening to really good music very well performed), here are a couple of alternate performances of songs featured at The Pink Flamingo recently.
Jussi Björling singing the Pearl Fishers Duet with Robert Merrill (in answer to SJ’s posting of Placido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes singing the same piece :-))
And since SJ has featured so very many posts of Nessun Dorma performances (go and check out all of them except for the terrible performance by Mario Lanza *gag* and–unless you enjoy a poke in the ear with a sharp stick, the “performance” by Michael Bolton), I thought The Definitive Nessun Dorma deserved a place here. 🙂
While I prefer baritone voices in general, some tenors such as Placido Domingo, John McCormack and Jussi Björling (among other great voices) always move me. Jussi Björling seems largely forgotten nowadays, and of course Placido Domingo is the greatest living tenor, but this guy’s recordings are the only tenor voice performances guaranteed to move me to tears of joy (with, to my shame, just the very slightest touch of envy *heh*) nearly as frequently as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s do.