Muslim Man, Obama Donor, Arrested for Death Threat on Eric Cantor

Those peaceful Muslims again. Combine “peaceful Muslim” with “Obama donor” and you have the perfect Leftard:

Man arrested for threatening Cantor is an Obama donor, also threatened Holder and family

More typical as a Muslim than a Leftard, though, as he threatened not only a Repugnican’t congresscritter but an Attorney General *spit* who has done everything within his power to advance the cause of jihadis.

On second thought, Leftards aren’t well-known for avoiding such stupidities as threatening those with their aims at heart…

Now, although the guy was an Obama donor and is a Muslim, he’ll undoubtedly be characterized by the few Mass MEdia Podpeople who give the story more than two sentences as a “rigfht-wing extremist tea bagger”–anyone want to lay odds?

Computer Housekeeping–Backups

Since most readers here use some version of Windows, this will focus on backing up one’s computer using that platform–and rather narrowly, at that. (If you’re using a Linux distro, you are likely not even in need of any pointers, as that OS is still either used by slightly more sophisticated users or Great Aunt Tilly’s Ubuntu machine is managed by her geeky 12-year-old great niece. *heh* If you’re on a Mac, you’re stuck with the Time Machine straightjacket.)

Now, I’m generally a fan of making a drive image of a working OS and then updating it whenever serious OS updates come along, then just backing up one’s data–and darned near any strategy that keeps one’s data safe of fine with me. But I’m a particular fan of remote–and especially off site–backups. It just gives me a warm feeling knowing that if a tornado swooped down and swept my computer(s) away, I could reconstruct them from remote, offsite sources. That’s why backing things up to optical media or local network drives just isn’t enough for me. Sure, it’s great that a reasonable backup software (that includes basic disk imaging!) is now included in Windows 7, and even that Win7 Pro and Ultimate include backing up over a network. But I wanted more and I wanted it for free.

Answer? It appears that GFI Backup is my answer. I just performed an ftp backup of my Win7 machine to a folder on my domain easily and quickly using the software. Checked the zip file and all seems to be as it should be. I’ve not used the software to perform a restore from backup, yet, but since the contents of the backup are readable, it looks like it ought to be fine. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just come back here and say nasty things, ‘K? πŸ˜‰

There are other solutions out there, but a real backup placed on a reliable set of servers on my own domain by a software that can be scheduled to run, can run differential backups, etc., and cost me nothing? Well, that’s right up my alley.

For Win2K, WinXP, Vista and 7.

Oh, yeh. Also performs backups to local drives, local network drives, etc., in case one were to want that as well. πŸ™‚

Human Achievement Hour

Instead of the fatuous (and dangerous!*) “Earth Hour” last Saturday, A Place to Stand suggested Human Achievement Hour, quite similar to Woody’s protest.

The lights were on here at twc central, but I must confess I had no thought of protesting Earth Hour. Everything was running because

1. I never shut down my Big Hawg (computer)
2. Some of my Wonder Woman’s family had come by after the wedding and reception and we spent the time visiting about important things (like our firecracker lil niece who charmed everyone in sight and was continuing to do so as we visited), instead of observing some wacko “Earth Hour” balderdash.

*Note: the linked “article” is a fable.

A Point of No Return?

I’ve said for some time now that The Ø! and his minions are behaving as if they have nothing to fear at the voting booth. Thomas Sowell points out one of the ways they have of fixing that problem… by “fixing” the balance of voters:

What will it matter if Obama’s current approval rating is below 50 percent among the current voting public, if he can ram through new legislation to create millions of new voters by granting citizenship to illegal immigrants? That can be enough to make him a two-term President, who can appoint enough Supreme Court justices to rubber-stamp further extensions of his power.

When all these newly minted citizens are rounded up on election night by ethnic organization activists and labor union supporters of the administration, that may be enough to salvage the Democrats’ control of Congress as well.

The last opportunity that current American citizens may have to determine who will control Congress may well be the election in November of this year. Off-year elections don’t usually bring out as many voters as Presidential election years. But the 2010 election may be the last chance to halt the dismantling of America. It can be the point of no return.

It’s more important than ever that people who care about the rule of law (as opposed to The Ø! and his minions’ unconstitutional outlawry) to work harder than ever before against any amnesty plan for alien invaders.

Missing the Point

Peggy Noonan is a bright gal, of that there is no doubt, but that she is bright does not stop her from being blinded by her own biases. Case in point: an opinion piece, “The Heat Is On. We May Get Burned,” dated March 27, 2010, published in the Wall Street Journal, in which she says,

The beehive was already angry about a million things a year ago, and most of those things, obviously, were not the fault of the administration. People are angry at their economic vulnerability. They are angry at the deterioration of our culture, angry at our nation’s deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction. Their anger is stoked by cynical politicians and radio ranters and people who come home at night, have a few drinks, and spew out their rage on the comment thread. It’s a world full of people always cocking the gun and ready to say, if things turn bad, “But I didn’t tell anyone to shoot!”

And yes, this mood, this anger, has only been made worse by this yearlong, enervating, exhausting, enraging fight over health care. The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.

Just to be obvious, let me repeat the signal lapse of the article: “They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.”

Throwing the bullshit flag on that one, Peggy. From the evidence, it is clear that they do “see how high the temperature is” and do “understand that they raise it.” From Rahm Emanuel’s clearly-stated desire to not “waste a good crisis,” to the shady deals, bully tactics and flat out lies perpetrated by The Ø and his minions and cohorts in crime, the only clear message is that they do understand what they are doing and believe that their tactics will win them their goals of expanded power over the lives of common citizens (known, more than likely, among their circle as “the little, unimportant people” and not The People). The fact that if one were to study the background of the people abusing their power to expand control over our lives and apply Occam’s Razor to understanding the strategy underlying their tactics, one would probably discover that the Cloward-Piven Strategy meets all the criteria needed to analyze the reasons for their tactics.

Cloward-Piven? Yes, Peggy, if you’d been paying attention outside the Beltway circle of “real-to-‘your-kind-ofpeople'” echo chamber, you’d have grasped long since the parrallels between The Ø!’s behavior since the day he took office and now and the plan for radicalizing American society that had a great deal of currency during The Ø!’s Columbia years by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Columbia professors of sociology. Simply stated, that strategy is,

[T]he strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. [T]he “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Every single thing The Ø’s administration and the Dhimmicrappic leadership have done in the last year points to following the precepts outlined in that strategy and hastening its fruition. Indeed, that last part, hastening the fruition of the strategy, has become the chief reason for pushing so hard to implement The Ø!’s Healthscare Bill: the sooner the collapse happens, the sooner The Ø! and his minions can assert draconian control to “restore order”.

The Ø! and his minions must push harder than ever now, they must manufacture more and worse “crises” in order to be able to make the ballot box even more irrelevant than it has already become in these days of blatant Dhimmicrappic cheating and Repugnican’t incompetence (and, not hard to admit, deaf ears of their own to constituents’ right, liberties and calls for representation).

These modern day traitors must poush harder than ever, else their treason will not prosper and they then be called to account for their treason.

This Is NOT JUST “Being PIcky”!

I utterly abhor the illiterate construction, “12:00 p.m.” used to refer to Noon. “P.M.” means “Post Meridian” and Noon IS the Meridian; it cannot be after itself. Now, there may be some weak argument for referring to Midnight as “12:00 a.m.” because in one sense it is “ante meridian” but since it is both the beginning of one day while also serving as the end of the previous day, Midnight is simply better. But there is no excuse under the Sun for “12:00 p.m.” to be used to refer to Noon. None. Anyone who uses it deserves 50 lashes with a sharp second hand.

Goodbye, Old Friend

Buttons, Son&Heir’s medium-sized “some kind of herding dog/beagle mix” who, for most of his life weighed in at between 45 and 50 very lean pounds, at the ripe old age of seventeen(ish), finally “slipped the surly bonds of earth” yesterday, about noon.

Goodbye, buddy.

(Almost always a “happy dog” he appears to be squinting here because he is. Sun in his eyes and all that. πŸ™‚ Photo taken about four years ago, just a couple of months after he nearly died from an infection–caught just in time to be turned around with very aggressive anti-biotic treatment.)

Although Buttons much preferred outdoor life–and was an exclusively outdoor dog for almost all the years he was with us, after we got him from his previous owners at age 2.5 yrs or so (they had kept him “crated” for about 23 hours/day. Should have been shot). This winter, he spent most of his time indoors, though–especially when temps were below freezing. The sudden slide downhill in the past couple of weeks–most of it in the last couple of days was not easy to watch. The vet agreed with me that he was at the end of the road, and that was that.

Yes, I cried a tad. So sue me for it.

Leashes and treats have already been doled out to The Good Neighbors for their dogs. I’m still waiting to see if they want a ton of dog food–canned and dry. Buttons was a sharing kinda guy. πŸ™‚

“We the Government… “

Government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians…

a Michael Ramirez Cartoon

” …in order to form a more destructive polity, chain Liberty with our hubris, destroy the General Welfare and establish serfdom for all the ‘little people’ and their future generations (but not our own progeny, of course) give you, the inconsequential serfs… Obumacare.”

But we were born free, weren’t we? Weren’t we?