"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."
Stolen from “Preacher Joe Paluch”
For Sale. 1975 Chevy pickup. 278k mi., leaks & burns oil, tranny slips, body damage all around, passenger door & tailgate missing, no running lights (short?), bed is rusted through, needs rubber. Government appraisal: $4500. $3000 cash, for right Democrat.
*heh*
Close, but no cigar. While sadly amusing, the video below fails, because, as we all know, any attempt by The 0! to speak without input from the TOTUS is filled with stammering “uhs” and incoherent ramples. While the actor portraying The 0! in the video below does inject some of The 0!’s typical rambling speech patterns, the video fails to portray the utter incompetence at common speech typical of The 0! when speaking extemporaneously and not being fed his lines by TOTUS. Otherwise, not bad at all.
This photograph:
is of a decidedly different document to the one posted by The 0!’s campaign last year (second image):
Or the one relased later in the year to the leftard Factcheck.org (third image):
The first image is either a very, very good forgery or the second two are very bad ones. My gut impression is that the document in the first image is much, much more convincing than the two–very different, to each other as well as to the document in image #1–documents imaged below it.
I seriously doubt that the second two imaged documents would suffice for application for a fedgov job, or even for State-certified licensure in any number of professions, since even notarized hospital-issued birth certificates are disallowed and they carry much more information than the short form “Certification of Live Birth” (note: NOT the long form “Certificate of Live Birth” Hawaii does still issue) pictured by The 0!’s minions.
So far, he’s spent over a million dollars in legal fees to quash inquiries into simple documentation of his past–documentation nearly everyone is expected to be able to make available to any number of government offices, prospective employers, etc.
What is he hiding?
Look to the Canadian present:
…to buy a car today. That’s what the “Cash for Clunkers” program is about. (Heck, that’s what well more than half of government spending’s about anymore. *sigh*) Everyone who’s gone out and bought a new car recently under the now strapped-for-cash “Cash for Clunkers” program has gotten their “feddle gummint” money on the deal by billing your children and grandchildren; it’s all “pay the debt forward” in a very perverse way.
And this idiotic greenie idea that it’ll do something wonderful for the environment is plain hooey. It’ll take at least five years of substantial fuel economy savings for these new cars to “pay” for the energy it took to manufacture them, more than likely. Probably more. And by that time, what do you want to bet that most of the buyers of these new cars will be ready to trade in on another energy deficit car?
Meanwhile, cars thjat have already “paid off” their energy deficits are being trashed–the drivetrains (the most energy-intensive postions of the manufacture) of “Cash for Clunkers” program trade-in cars are all being turned into scrap metal. Scavenging drivetrain parts (huge energy savings in avoiding manufacturing new replacement parts, and even moderate energy savings from rehabbing used parts) for cars folks would rather repair than scrap becomes impossible.
Now, Congress is talking about stealing another two billion dollars from your grandchildren for this boondoggle.
*feh* on them.
Just thinking on my One Major Software App…
I’ve used more than a few web browsers since my first explorations using Cello and other early Mosaic-based browsers. I still have five I use, depending on which “side” of a dual boot or which computer I’m using. Internet Exploder (version 8 only right now), Firefox 3.x–whatever it is with the latest bug stomp–Sea Monkey (which is now in version 2!), Konqueror and Opera 9.64 and Opera 10 Beta (in various flavors, including some “anonymized” proxy-based setups). But I’ve been using Opera Browser as my primary browser for 14 years now. I forget when Opera first brought tabbed browsing out, but it was more than a few years before Firefox, which has popularlized tabbed browsing to a degree Opera’s smaller eye share had not, brought it out and something around a decade before M$ decided to move Internet Exploder into the 21st century.
Still, until I moved to this 23″ widescreen LCD monitor (Acer 223W), I rarely had more than 30 or maybe 40 tabs open at once. I just counted off my current tabs. 89. The first 10 are locked so they can’t be closed down absent some direct intervention (two mouse clicks to unlock ’em and a mouse gesture to close), but the others are things I want to keep open for various reasons. Two are books I’m reading (one or the other when I’m on this computer, depending on whether I feel like reading a book at any particular time during a compy session and which one I want to bring up), several are products I want to keep links to somewhere out “in the open” as it were and others are related news or stories or pages with links to music, etc.
Handy lil things like moving the tabs around to group them by subject or relatedness make things easier to deal with when so many tabs are open.
And then there are the 50 or so links I’ve placed on a toolbar, cos I want ’em handier than a bookmark.
I had my tabs collection pared down to just about 30 just yesterday…
Of course, bookmarks are easier to manage in Opera than any other browser I’ve tried, and all my bookmarks are in 45 folders, most with more than a few subfolders, for classification into categories that speak to me. Adding new folders or subfolders is easy-peasy compared to other browsers, and that’s a Good Thing since I like things in their places.
And then there is the easy-peasy facility for managing, creating and modifying keyboard shortcuts. CRTL+F12>Advanced>Shortcuts>Edit brings up a wealth of built-in keyboard shortcuts, and changing Opera’s behavior is trivially simple from there.
And what can I say about simply typing opera:config in an address bar? Almost everything else that can be modified by a user is available there. Almost. I do have to import my saved passwords and a couple of handy config files when adding a new, separate, Opera build to a computer, but there again, it’s simply either copy-paste the config file into a new folder for the new instance of Opera (so I can run two different versions of Opera on the same computer but also still have all the same configuration) or point the new Opera to the old config files using… opera:config.
Nice that some other browsers are letting folks add on things like mouse gestures, although I think Opera’s implementation is better, cleaner and less prone to breakage since it’s a built-in part of the software itself. And has been for the past four major version numbers. Ditto with the nice lil extension that now allows Firefox users (sorry Internet Exploder users, no joy with this for you) to emulate Opera’s Speed Dial feature.
But still, having 89–Oops! now 90; added one to check something a minute ago–tabs open is the single most typical indicator of my dependence on Opera. Hmmm, there’re some things in this session I don’t want to lose. Time to implement another Opera first now emulated by FF: save this session. Sure, Opera saves all my sessions automagically whenever I exit (or an OS crashes or my UPS powers down during a power outage or whatever) but saving a session with some comments to goad my memory is a Good Thing too.
Well, that’s enough rambling for now. I think I’ve used up my word allowance for the da_
So, my Wonder Woman picked up my coffee mug and took a sip. I sighed and said, “Now you’ve done it. Ruined another cuppa coffee… *sigh*”
“It’s too sweet, now?” she replied.
Yeh, I need new lines. Over the past 30-*mumble* years, I’ve become far too predictable.