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Tool Time

I was over at Woody’s News & Views and ran across a useful idiot (useful to the commies, cretins and creeps, oh, my! in the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army, that is) posting in comments…
So, I tripped the light fantastic on over to this UI’s blog and lo! and behold! Yep. First up is a carefully-worded disingenuous attack on President Bush in the PLame Blame Game. Some folks just never let go of fantasyland. (“It’s reality-based! No, really it is! See the castles? See the dungeons? See the pretty dragons and elves and dwarves? Reality-based, I say!”)
He led with a quote from a Judd Legum Salon article,
[T]he media refuses to ask two questions that President Bush could not delay answering until he “finds out the facts”: Mr. President, prior to July 14, 2003 (the day Robert Novak’s column appeared), were you aware that Valerie Wilson was a CIA agent? And did you discuss her role with any other member of your administration?
To which, of course, the President’s reply (should such a loaded question be asked—from a Mass Media Podperson? Never! Perish the thought!—should be obvious. The Prez ought to answer simply,
“Haven’t done your homework, have you bubba/bubbette? Valerie Plame hadn’t been a ‘covert operative’ for over six years at the time of the Novak article, so the whole issue is moot. Rove, Coulter: remove this tool with extreme prejudice. Next.”
Of course, I was muuuuuch more conciliatory when I commented at UI’s blog with…
Yeh, Valerie Blame was a “covert operative” (or in your less accurate, helpfully blurring term “agent”) about like the King of Spain is… well king of anything.
Hadn’t been covert for over 6 years, bubba. Hadn’t been posted outa the coutry for over, well, six years, either.
Five years, covert posting, outcountry: those are the terms of the law.
Now, let’s ask the question in a less loaded “when did you stop beating your wife” attitude, eh?
“Were you aware, Mr. President that Mrs. Wilson, a _formerly_ covert operative who had been a desk jockey for six years at the time of the Novak article, was the person who pushed the loser former-ambassador to Gabon for a tea-sipping junket to Niger? And did you discuss this dipstick with anyone in your administration?”
There. I think I’ve managed to capture a less loaded language than Legum’s biased, disingenuous attack question. All I did was make the underlying facts (as opposed to the contrafactual assumptions in the Legum statement-posing-as-a-question) more obvious, hence less disingenuous.
BTW, ought not Legum’s name to have another “e” in it? Since he’s a typical Mass Media Podperson, it would fit, don’t you know…
BTW, you notice I didn’t link to the UI’s blog, didn’t you? Not handing him one single visit more than the one I just wasted time making. The tool.
Update: alla the action’s in comments on this one… And R’Cat (who’s back and in fighting posting trim and has a great example posted of one-a these useful idiots who finally saw (at least part of) the light. I guess there is hope for the leper to change his spots…
heh
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Not quite ready for prime time

Google Visitoris a neat idea (thanks again to Woody of Woody’s News & Views). Maybe not quite ready for prime time, though.

I signed up for the freebie. Waited a couple hours. Went back and checked, and sure enough, it had recorded and mapped some of the visitors to this blog. I could CLICk on the Satellite link and view a low-rez pic (or map) of whence the visitor had come.

Of course, when I checked, in the same time frame Statcounter had noted the IP addresses of 10.5 times as many unique visitors… EDIT: akk. My math is hampered something fierce when I’m coffee-deprived (well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). True numbers fro m statcounter showed nearly 15X as many unique visitors in the same time frame. See comments.

So, neat idea, but not as neat as GoogleEarth. (WARNING! The link is to the latest setup file for the standalone application, GoogleEarth, which, even in the free version, is MUCh more capable than a Google map/satellite search on the web. SO, if you want to try it out—Windows only—RIGHT-CLICK the link and Save As… the n scan it with your anti-virus software, etc.)

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Mystery Photo 01


Mystery01
Originally uploaded by mnmus.

The publishing company that owns the rights to such songs as “Turn Your Radio On” and “I’ll Fly Away” is featured in this photo… if you know what you’re looking at/for.

No prizes, just an easily-solved mystery photo.

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You’ve heard, perhaps, of “Just in Time” (JIT) compiling?

Well, Just Almost in Time is what MessySoft’s aiming for with its update—today—of its Malware Removal Tool to remove the “Zotob” worm family.

Yeh, yeh. M$ released a security patch juuust (barely) before a worm to exploit a M$-created hole hit. And yeh, if users and IT departments had been on the ball, there woulda been NO impact.

But. The day before M$ released a security patch, my anti-virus software updated with yet another (of several earlier) sigfiles to prevent a “Zotob” worm infection. So, unpatched or not, I was protected. By a lil Czech company. Before MessySoft even got around to “fixing” the problem.

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Odd Chicken Salad/Sandwich

Made ya think, didn’t I? What is “odd” about this recipe? (Or, rather, what’s more odd than usual about this recipe? heh)

Ever wonder what to do with odd chicken parts? The way I learned to cut up a chicken from my mom and both grandmothers (who all did it in pretty much the same way), I’m usually left holding some pieces with notalotta meat and a whole heckuva lotta bones: the neck, a coupla different pieces of the back; you know, a lotta trouble for a little meat.

Mother’s solution was to save all these “extras” in the freezer, then, every now and then, pull out a bagful and boil up some chicken stock, then assign one of us kids to bone the necks and backs—really dig out all the tiny lil pieces of meat, which could then be used in making chicken soups, chicken and dumplings, casseroles, chicken salad/sandwich spread, etc.

Well, that still works, but I prefer using my pressure cooker.

Bottom of prssure cooker: odd ends of onions, carrots, celery, etc. (odd ends and pieces frozen and saved for making stock, etc.—you do do that, don’t you? :-).Maybe some garlic and other herbs or spices to your taste. Dump in “odd” chicken parts. A lil salt and lotsa freshly ground pepper. Maybe a half cuppa water. Cook under high pressure for about 10 minutes, then remove from heat and run cold water over the pressure cooker to depressurize it. Remove the chicken and store in the fridge to cool. Strain and store the stock in the fridge. (You can easily skim the fat off later if that’s a concern.)

When the chicken’s cooled in the fridge, take it out and debone it. (Why do “debone” and “bone” mean the same thing? Is it like “flammable” and “inflammable”? I am soooo confused!)

Now, you can make one of my fav sandwich spreads. And it’s sooooo easy you’ll not begrudge all the drudgery of getting enough freshly-cooked, juicy chicken by cooking and deboning necks and backs and unmentionables, oh my!

Ingredients only: no amounts. (This is what makes it sooo good—no matter what I say here, you’ll feel completely free to take this as a skeletal framework and fill in as you wish. 🙂

  • Chicken, boned, in small pieces
  • Mayo
  • Sweet pickle relish
  • Celery, diced finely
  • Celery seed (soak ahead of time if you’re not going to let the chicken spread come together for a few hours before using it)
  • Minced onion
  • Freshly-ground pepper
  • Shredded carrots
  • MAYBE some fresh dill weed, if ya have it (but probably best added as sprigs to sadnwiches when made).

Combine all the stuff above in proportions that suit your taste and then cover the resultant (oh so good) mess and store it in the fridge for a few hours.

Variations/additional ingredient suggestions:

halved grapes
cooked, crumbled bacon
shredded cheese (If you do this, consider NOT using the mayo and adding enough cheese to make a grilled chicken salad sandwich work! Great in one of those lil hot sandwich presses.)

Bread, leaf lettuce and spread. A good sammich, eh?

Get creative with this and let me know how it goes, eh?

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Hear the Fear

[Bumped up cos, well, this is Stop the ACLU Blogburst day. Read on down for more Thirsday posts, rants and rambles]
Stop the ACLU
The ACLU claims to be the guardian of our rights. Riiight. Whereas the First Amendment specifically allows for freedom of religious speech and practice, free political speech and press, assembly and petition, the ACLU asserts (and in faux-liberalist dominated activist courts have generally won its assertions) that the First Amendment “protects” us from religious speech and practice (except Islamofascist hate speech), free “expression”—NOT speech—and a press unfettered from any responsibility, and freedom of assembly and petition only that agrees with its communist agenda.
Where the ACLU shows its colors in completely wacko nutjob clarity, though, is in this FAQ that completely misrepresents (blatantly lies about) a loose affiliation of folks who simply want free and open scientific inquiry into a wide range of questions. In doing so, the ACLU is joined with the liars comprised of Mass Media Podpeople and Loony Left Moonbats for who freedom of speech and open inquiry mean only freedom to speak their collective groupthink and explore the textus receptus of their accepted precepts. (Oh, and sadly, the ACLU is also joined by some whack-job “religious right” fun-damn-mentalists in slandering the same folks… just for different purposes. *sigh*)
What loosely affiliated group—which BTW has widely diverse ideas within its own ranks—has garnered such opposition, thus earning some degree of automatic respect by the enemies it has made?
People who want to explore the possibility of intelligent design having some greater or lesser part in the origins of the universe or of life or both.
But the ACLU is afraid these folks who simply want open inquiry into the questions of the origin of the universe and the origin of life will corrupt the sheep._1_, _2_, _3_ Its fear is evident in the fact that it continually misrepresents intelligent design (just as weak-faithed creationist liars do). Read the FAQ linked above, then read this rebuttal, ACLU Intelligent Design FAQ: An Analysis and Response.
I’ll not outline Intelligent Design theory or research. There’s plenty of pro con argument available to you on the web, and reasonable people can make reasonable assessments. But to say, as the ACLU (along with th MMP and LLMs) does that one side of a debate ought not to be heard reveals the truth behind the ACLU’s “free speech” committment: it only stands when the speech involved advances the ACLU’s agenda.
The ACLU (and the faux “liberals” or liberalists in the Loony Left Moonbats—hereafter known as the majority of the Democratic Party—and the Mass Media Podpeople) has no connection to the classical Liberalism that sprang forth in the 19th Century from writers and political activists such as the quintessential Liberal, John Stuart Mill.
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”—JSM, On Freedom
The ACLU is on the aide of supression of free thought and speech and open inquiry. The ACLU is the enemy of freedom.

Stop the ACLU Blogburst Blogroll

**A Lady’s Ruminations
**A Tic In The Mind’s Eye
**American Dinosaur
American Patriot 9/12
American Warmonger
An American Housewife
**Angry Republican Mom
Birth of a Neo-Con
Blog Talker
Blogicus
**Blonde Sagacity
California Conservatives 4 Truth
**Cao’s Blog
Christmas Ghost
**Conservative Angst
Conservative Dialysis
Conservative Rant
Craig’s Reflections
Crosses aCross America
Daily Inklings
**Elephant In My Coffee
**Euphoric Reality
**Evil Conservative Blog
Freedom Of Thought
Freedom-Of
**Fundamentally Right
**GINASRANTINGS
GM’s Corner
**Gribbit’s Word
Hooah Wife
In My Right Mind
Info 4 Beer
Is It Just Me?
Is This Life?
It Is What It Is
**JackLewis.net
Jo’s Cafe
Just Mitch
Kender’s Musings
Kill Righty
Lady Madonna- Headlines
**Mad tech
Making Tomorrow’s Military Today
Mean Ol’ Meany
Merri Musings
Middle America’s Worldview
More Sense Than Money
**Mr Minority
**Museum Of Leftwing Lunacy
**Musing Minds
My Political Soapbox
MyView
**NIF
**NY Girl
Obiter Dictum Blog
Oderint dum metuant
**Ogre’s View
Parrot Check
Patriots For Bush
PBS Watch
Pirate’s Cove
Pulpit Pounder
RAGE 4 Truth
**Ravings of John C. A. Bambenek
Real Teen
Red State Rant
Regular Ron
Right On! A Conservative Opinion
Right Wing Nation
**Smithereen’s Files
Steve’s Blog
Stop The ACLU
**Swap Blog
Sweet Spirits of Ammonia
The American Patriots
The Conservative UAW Guy
**The Kevin Show
The Lesser of Two Evils
The Life And Times
The Nose On Your Face
The Original Gobbleblog
**The Uncooperative Blogger
The View From Firehouse
**The Wide Awakes
third world county
This Space For Rent
Time Hath Found Us
TMH’s Bacon Bits
**Twenty First Century Paladin
Undiscovered Country
Vista On Current Events
What Attitude Problem?
**White Lightning Axiom: Redux
**Xtreme Right Wing
Zipcard2’s Blog
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Killing with “kindness”

“For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!“

That’s Kenyan economist James Shikwati speaking.

“… it has to be the Kenyans themselves who help these people. When there’s a drought in a region of Kenya, our corrupt politicians reflexively cry out for more help. This call then reaches the United Nations World Food Program — which is a massive agency of apparatchiks who are in the absurd situation of, on the one hand, being dedicated to the fight against hunger while, on the other hand, being faced with unemployment were hunger actually eliminated.”

(“apparatchiks”—now that’s telling it straight!)

Just read it all.

Then read, Let Africa Sink by Kim du Toit. One piece of macabre humor from Let Africa Sink:

My favorite African story actually happened after I left the country. An American executive took a job over there, and on his very first day, the newspaper headlines read: “Three Headless Bodies Found”.

The next day: “Three Heads Found”.

The third day: “Heads Don’t Match Bodies”.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Just read it. Now, what was that I was saying about “Killing with ‘kindness'”? (Yeh, Daniel Patrick Moynihan tried to warn us about our social welfare programs doing just that… to blacks in this country… more than 40 years ago.)