Tag: stupid is as stupid does

My final (I promise!–Nah, I don’t :-)) post on the hosting/server “Internal Server Error” that made such a hash of the last two days here at twc…

So, an “engineer” (whatever that means in hosting service gobbledegook) finally addressed the CGI issue that I had repeatedly been told “is fixed” by others, and late last night, twc began working properly on my own, new, hosted account (thanks again for your generosity for the past year, Diane!).

So, what do I get from my [Unamed Hosting Service] this a.m.? Not one but two emails saying (in different words) the same thing, “We cannot find any problem loading your site. The problem must be on your end.”

Dumbasses.

1. The site is indeed working… now.
2. If the problem was ever on my end or “somewhere between your computer and our server” then it had to also be between their server and all the other computers I tried loading the site from, theri server and all the computers of other folks I had trying to load the site AND their server and the computers of all the people I talked to at their end who could not load the site either.

Pretty widespread to have been “somewhere between your computer and our server” dontcha think?

Dumbasses. Never even bothered to read the trouble ticket history. Never even bothered to simply check and see if it actually WAS the CGI reload fixing the problem.

Nope. No intellectual giants (or even midgets) or folks with decent work ethics sending me emails from that company…

Hmmm… I wonder if their customer service department is hired from the same pool that the TSA (Terminally Stupid Agency) hires from?

Nah. Can’t be. All these guys are in… Canada.

One more class of people deserving absolutely NO respect and absolutely NO polite response.

I admire Hugh Hewitt, Carol Platt Liebau, Alexandra von Maltzen, Dafydd ab Hugh and others for their even-tempered approach to discourse with the enemies of America–especially the enemies within. But sadly, I think the only folks they have a chance of reaching are those with moderately open minds; IOW, genuine liberals of which the Left currently seems to have NONE.

Time for the Celtic/Nordic heritage of berserker rage, folks (one genetically embedded in my being :-)).

Playing nicely with faux “liberals” (who care not a whit for genuine freedom of speech, the rights of individuals or frank, open discourse) and all their ilk—Mass Media Podpeople, fake conservative politicians *spit*, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and the whole menagerie of liars, poltroons and traitors, Oh! My! who populate the Left—is simply and plainly a stupid thing to do. It’s like attempting to debate (pick your position) Aristotelian Positivism with a street thug intent on knifing (or shooting) you and stripping your corpse bare.

Continue reading “Open that can of whup-ass!”

twc may be experiencing some ongoing wonkiness for the next couple of days. The [nameless minions at the Unamed Hosting Service *sigh*] have finally gotten a buncha kinks worked out of the server with the problems, and I’ve managed to import most of the info into the new database, but I may have missed some comments/trackbacks in the transition.

If you have a comment/trackback that you submitted but which is not showing, please email me at mnmus-at-thirdworldcounty-dot-us with the info and I’ll make a way to handle it.

Thanks

Leftists, especially, like to whine on and on about “personal attacks” and bloggers and email listers have for years been accused of making “ad hominem arguments” …when often the whines about “personal attacks” and “ad hom” arguments are little more than misdirection attempts by wolves trying to pull the wool over sheeple eyes…

A “personal attack” that cites facts of a person’s actual words and deeds is not a personal attack at all, and anyone who makes arguments or accusation from FACT decrying someone\’s actual words and deeds need NEVER back down when falsely accused of making a “personal attack” that is a false accusation aimed at nothing less than OBSCURING relevant facts.

That\’s the kind of behavior Lefties like to pull on such folks as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: label relevant truth and fact-based opinion as “personal attacks” in an attempt to shout someone out of the public arena. Disgusting, but what can you expect from liars, poltroons and whiners?

ad hominem ad hominem [ahd hoh-mi-nem; Eng. ad hom-uh-nuhm]
Latin.

1. appealing to one\’s prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one\’s intellect or reason.

2. attacking an opponent\’s character rather than answering his argument.

(Note the brief definition above recognizes the potential “positive” as well as negative appeals to emotion based on prejudicial circumcstances; most folks only think of ad hominem as regards negative statements about another to discredit the other’s argument, though.)

If I were to say, “Jean Fraud Kerry is a slanderer.” and then go on to say, “BECAUSE he is a slanderer, he is unfit for public office,” many would accuse me of making an ad hominem “attack” on JF Kerry. Not so. An (antipathetic) ad hominem attack, MUST argue that someone else\’s arguments, statements, etc., are necessarily false, untrue or invalid because of their special condition, a defect of character, racial, ethnic, religious background, relation to the matter under argument, etc.

Note carefully, that a factually-based accusation that Kerry is a slanderer and that this fault of character is great enough to disqualify him for public office is NOT an argument against his ideas, policies or arguments. It is itself an argument. “Proposed: character matters in choosing public servants, and demonstrable liars, hypocrites, slanderers, thieves and perjurers disqualify themselves by their choice of unethical behavior from “serving” in public office.”

That J.F. Kerry is–at the very least–a slanderer who gave false testimony (under oath? I need to re-read the copy of his testimony I have) before the Senate in his “Winter Soldier” testimony is a demonstrable and material fact, and is useful in the pursuit of this argument. So, correctly labeling him as a slanderer is in no way an ad hominem attack, but a legitimate statement of fact as a consequence of a larger argument.

Now, name-calling (my fav). Mass Media Podpeople. Academia Nut Fruitcakes. Congresscritters (politicians *spit*). All characterizations of classes of people that I have supported with factual citation in the past, demonstrating that these classes have earned the names I call them. If any in those classes don\’t like the names they have earned, let them change their behaviors.

‘ll deal with being rude–even roughly rude–with those who have earned the derisive disapprobation of any rational, ethical being in another post.

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Apologies to anyone who attempted a trackback in the last day. Send failed tbs to me for me to include in a hard-linked roundup this weekend, OK?

Well, I know I shoulda asked Mama Diane*s*, first, but I jumped on a hosting package from [the Unamed Hosting Service] and followed through with specific directions from the friendly doof at Fatcow support (to make sure I did things their way). And the problems began piling up.

*sigh*

I’m back on “temporary” hosting at the “old” hosting account (not mine, a generous gift), and everything is temporarily OK, pending some “Level 2 Techs” at [the Unamed Hosting Service] finding someone competent to fix their server issues. Yeh, I have the emails from “Level 2 Techs” saying the problem IS fixed (though it was not). (And I have the error log showing where they didn’t competently do what they said they had done.) Lesson learned: NEVER switch a domain over until EVERTHING is confirmed to work properly. Silly me. But I did have some fun chewing new orifices for some folks who tried bullshitting me over the phone.

Clouds, silver linings and all that. All grist for a curmudgeon.

Oh, and the inclusion of this post in the “Sex!” category? That was just to see if anyone was paying attention. My sex: male. There. Now it’s a legitimate categorization.

After submitting a rough draft of my proposed T-13 to a few folks, I realized–from the feedback–that I need to state and refine the basis for the Thirteen I proposed posting. So, here’s a “placeholder thirteen”–

Thirteen things on my desk:

1. 2 computers (only 2 at present).

2. 2 monitors–both bulky CRTs with great resolution and display characteristics. But only two, even though one comp’s set up for multiple displays.

3. Yadayada–two sets of mice/keyboards. KVM switches

4. Three sets of speakers.

5. table lamp.

6. Palm cradle and Palm.

7. An 1880s vintage Buffet Clarinet (partially disassembled)

8. Decorative beer stein stuffed with an assortment of conductor’s batons.

9. A small stack of bare hard drives.

10. Printer

11. Phones

12. Couple of different kinds of surge suppressors and a UPS (yes, ON the desk, it’s 3’X6′)

13. A couple of spindles of CDRs and DVDRs, assorted spindles of already written optical media.

I could go on. But that’s what my desk is like when it’s “cleaned off”–*heh*

Pegged to the board at the Thursday Thirteen Hub

The American Family Association is conducting an online poll among a self-selected population that consists of folks who consider themselves “traditional values” kinda people (whatever that means). Here are the results so far:

Islam and America Poll Results

Do you consider Islam to be a peaceful religion?
Yes 3,525 No 47,880
Do you consider Islam to be a tolerant religion?
Yes 2,011 No 49,295
Would America be a better country if it were a Muslim country?
Yes 277 No 50,991
Should America place equal emphasis on the Koran and the Bible?
Yes 1,196 No 49,955
Would it be good for America to have more Muslims in elected offices?
Yes 1,248 No 49,739
Would you vote for a Muslim for president?
Yes 1,130 No 49,916
As a general rule, are women treated better in America than in a Muslim country?
Yes 46,789 No 4,306
Is America too dependent on Muslim countries for oil?
Yes 49,125 No 1,951
Do Muslim countries do more than America to help the poor?
Yes 1,180 No 49,576

What’s so troubling about these poll results? That ANY within a self-selected population of “traditional family values” would consider Islam a “religion of peace” (MHWA), tolerant, etc. Dumbasses. To call such a view stupid is an insult to stupidity. That it can be found at all among AFA readers/adherents is a sign that the Islamic Fifth Column’s disinformation—spread by Mass Media Podpeople, politicians *spit*, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and Loony Left Moonbats—is being allowed all too free a rein in the piublic arena.

Expect a post on something like, “When is it wrong to be polite?” sometime soon as a followup to this one.

Soon.

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May I submit for your consideration the following as evidence that America is sliding swiftly down the slipperly slope greased by Mass Media Podpeople, Loony Left(tard) Moonbats, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and politicians *spit*:

Campaign (using taxpayer dollars, of course) to get Amish to accept food stamps.. Hmmm, “What can we do to convince a group of people to deny their heritage, turn their backs on the principles that are the bedrock of their culture and become suckling pigs feeding at the public teat?” Yep. Sounds about right, eh?

*sigh*

The fedgov had apparently been trying for most of a year to get Swift to stop hiring illegal aliens… had warned the company over and over and over again that a raid was coming. And still over 1,200 illegals were arrested in the sweep last month.

And all the jobs filled with Americans by the end of the month–jobs President Bush tells us Americans won’t do…

But has the fedgov clamped down in similar fashion on Tyson and others? Not yet. Oh, BTW, before the raid, over 400 Swift employees had taken their lil selves out of the picture and hotfooted it elsewhere–many of them taking their families home, where they are legal residents. Clamping down on companies that hire illegals (and congresscritters who do, for that matter) would do even more to create an actual defensible than simply building a fence and patrolling it.

Instead, we have the example of Swift NOT cleaning its own house because… well, who would believe that a fedgov presided over by an administration that has actually done LESS (by an order of magnitude!) than the Clinton administration to enforce immigration law would, well, actually, you know, take steps to enforce the law??? Who could blame Swift for not believing the promised raid would actually take place? The feds have shown much more interest in harassing common citizens for the past five years than in enforcing our borders.

The Imam Scam isn’t going to go away anytime soon, and it WILL end up making our country’s citizens less secure, if masses of citizens do not rise up and tell our congresscritters to grow some balls (or at least fake having some). One guess which way I think it’ll go… *sigh*

Need I go on?

More later.

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Flannery O’Connor summed it up pretty well:

“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.”

Since more and more Americans are stunted by poorer and poorer education, mind-numbed by mass media and drugged by consumerism, making rational arguments from fact is a difficult, and often impossible, task.

When talking to politicians *spit* blinded by massively greedy ambition, the task becomes much more difficult by several orders of magnitude…

Hence the shouting, chest-thumping, rock throwing and BIG BANGs that sometimes take place here at twc.

To get a mule’s attention, sometimes you first have to…

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Well, 2006 began with a semi-large personal bang—Diane’s gifting of a new home and new togs for the old Blogger-based third world county. As 2006 wended its way filtered through twc curmudgeonry, recipes, gripes, commentary, linkfests, horses and fawns (yes, still the all-time “most read” post at twc–go figure :-)), and Mohammed in a Pink Dress all made their appearance here, along with appearances by multiple excellent guest bloggers.

2007 will feature more of the same, and even more (reasoned) curmudgeonry. Expect a post–soon–on why personal attacks aren’t always bad things, for example. *heh* No sugar coated truths or sugar coated lies here. (That’s one problem with talking nicely to barbarians, poltroons and politicians *spit*. With so much sugar coating going on, it’s sometimes difficult to discern between the truth and the lies, for many folks.)

So, hang on. We’re in for a bumpy ride. And I’m gonna be kicking and screaming and calling names all the way.

🙂

(And no, in spite of this post’s time stamp, I did NOT stay up to “see in” the New year. It can find its way on its own with no help at all at all from the likes of me.)

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