stupid is as stupid does – Page 62

November 2, 2006

Fair Tax

Here is an update of candidate positions/incumbent positions on the FairTax. More information like this can be found at the “FairTax Scorecard.”

Position Updates
	Nelson, Bill FL (D) Changed from WNC to Leans Against 10/12/2006
	Goode, Vergil H., Jr. VA-05 (R) Cosponsors H.25 on 9/13/2006
	Pence, Mike IN-06 (R) Cosponsors H.25 on 9/06/2006
	Boren, Dan OK-02 (D) Cosponsors H.25 on 9/06/2006
	Granger, Kay TX-12 (R) Cosponsors H.25 on 6/19/2006
	Mica, John L. FL-07 (R) Cosponsors H.25 on 6/12/2006
	Drake, Thelma D. VA-02 (R) Cosponsors H.25 on 6/08/2006
	Isakson, Johnny GA (R) Cosponsors S.25 on 5/22/2006
	Weldon, Dave FL-15 (R) Changed from Leans Against to Against (4/11/06)
	Cornyn, John TX (R) Cosponsors S.25 on 4/3/2006
	Crenshaw, Ander FL-04 (R) Cosponsors bill on 3/16/2006
	Bonner, Jo AL-01 (R) Cosponsors bill on 3/14/2006, Changed from Leans For to For
	Feeney, Tom FL-24 (R) Cosponsors bill on 3/14/2006, Changed from Leans For to For
	Moran, Jerry KS-01 (R) Cosponsors bill on 2/28/2006, Changed from Leans For to For
	Tiahrt, Todd KS-04 (R) Cosponsors bill on 2/8/2006, Changed from WNC to For
	Davis, Susan CA-53 (D) C 2/2/2006, Changed from WNC to Against
	Bachus, Spencer AL-06 (R) Cosponsors bill on 1/31/2006, Changed from Leans For to For
	Sullivan, John OK-01 (R) Cosponsors bill on 1/31/2006, Changed from Leans For to For
	Davis, Lincoln TN-04 (D) Changed from Leans Against to Will Not commit (1/25/06)
	Weldon, Dave FL-15 (R) Changed from Leans For to Leans Against Fair Tax (1/25/06) (Corrected 2/7/2006)

Terry and I encourage each of you to consider writing [I’d say call as well, at this late date–mnmus] and asking your candidates/incumbents in this, the final week before the election. Terry and I, as I am sure most of you, consider this to be a non-partisan, no-brainer and would like to see Republicans and Democrats alike come together over such a proposal.

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October 31, 2006

Semi-random neuron pulses, 0.X

Career change for my last electric coffee grinder. Due to superior performance by old technology, it is now just another spice grinder.

Looking for more like this at garage sales and flea markets:

I wonder how many politicians dressed up in costume today, wrapping themselves in the flag and pretending to be “statemen”?

Answer: 99.9999999…%

Of those seeking re-election, the number approaches muuuuch closer to 100%.

Would Congress fix Social Security if congresscritters had to rely on it when they retired? Sounds like a grass roots petition-for-amendment drive to me… Would they build a fence if they all had to live on our borders? And what would be the effect if they each and every one had to serve a tour of duty in Iraq? As E-1 grade in whatever service. OK, that last might not be such a good idea. Imagine your congresscritter serving as a private, E-1 grade in an infantry platoon. Talk about endangering the lives of fellow servicemen! OTOH, Teddy Kennedy would make a rather sunstantial shield behind which to gain cover in a firefight. If he didn’t just decide to go for a swim. (Better yet: throw the bums–all of them–out and start over.)

Isn’t Fall, after the ragweed decides to stop afflicting folks, just the best time of year? Gorgeous colors–still greens with reds and yellows and browns and blue skies? Even the gray days are easy on the eyes. And the crisp air and juuuuust slightly sharp bite of Fall breezes. Just nice, folks. I could live like this. Walnuts falling and thwacking me on the head (s’all right: thick skull); cardinals looking for a lil extra feed (keeps our cats at the front door and bay window–*heh*); freshly-fallen leaves from the sycamores in the back yard and the oaks nearby covering the deck every morning (great mulching material); even scraping light frost from a windshield: all these and more–Fall.

Well, time for another go at the Augean stables that my office evolves into every few months. The path to my desk’s becoming too restricted for comfort (*ha!*), so it’s about time to box up stray parts for storage or garage sale, remove spare computers, re-organize wandering CDs, put roaming tools back where they belong (Ah! THAT’S where that was!) and etc. S’all right. I need to move this place to a different location before Thanksgiving, anyway.

Because my parents are making noises about visiting, then. Just a fair warning to the rest of you: get off the roads. *heh* Nah. My dad’s a good driver, especially for someone in his mid-80s.

😉

Oh, what to do?!? I’ve had a “secret project” going for six months now, and it’s been stalled for three. Plans followed. Right materials used. Correct proportions. Doesn’t work right. And yeh, I’m still not saying what it is, although I will say that it’s a musical instrument of sorts. The thing keeps just sitting there, mocking me. *sigh* The thing is, it almost works right. Tweaking it has driven me crazy. (OK, it wasn’t a drive but a putt. A short one.)

Ever notice that the more ya cater to the lowest common denominator, the lower it gets? That’s the key to the “successes” of our public schools (AKA “prisons for kids”) and colleges and universities.

I was shocked to see some pubschool teachers going to school in costume today. Some of them had the audacity to dress up as… teachers. (The real teachers are just more inmates–senior ones–in our “prisons for kids”.)

*heh*

I think if everyone who’s too stupid to drive were the ONLY drivers allowed on the roads for a month, then both of us who are competent drivers could go back to driving after that month and have a muuuuuch easier time of it. Although, come to think of it, there is a slight downside: the enrichment of the blood-suckers who run funeral “homes” (who came up with the idea of calling mortuaries “homes” anyway?).

Ever notice that the number of LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) who are traffic scofflaws approaches 100%? WTG influencing respect for the law, guys!

I think if we could find the Mothership (circling Uranus?) that houses the Hive Mother, then taking it out would deal a fatal blow to the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind… Just a thought…

Firtting for Halloween, a gory story: You heard about the dyslexic agnostic? Wasn’t sure there was a dogâ€”until it bit him in the a$$… (and even then, he thought for a moment he was caught on the horns of a dilemma, but he finally managed to bull his way through to the truth).

Whoever came up with the idea of Monday? Whoever it is, he’d better run and hide the next time a Monday like yesterday rolls around…

Finally, buy your own copy. Read it. James P. Hogan’s “Kicking the Sacred Cow: Heresy and Impermissible Thoughts in Science.” An agnostic engineer looks at some of modern science dogma and asks, “Where’s the beef?”

Kicking the Sacred Cow

October 31, 2006October 31, 2006

Getting rid of an old computer/OTP

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I just recieved another of those emails from PC Mag touting an article on what to do with an old computer. Around here, it’s mostly “scrap for parts,” but YMMV. Here’s the article if you’re interested, but I have a slightly different take.

The very last page of the article finally gets around to (mostly) dismissing Linux as an option for an old computer you may give away. But at least it does briefly mention the Linux distro I’d suggest you put on an old(er) computer I’d giving away: Ubuntu. The cavil in the PC Mag article is, “Windows is what most people already know how to use” but that’s a cop-out.

An older computer–anywhere from a 300Mhz P-II/III! to a 1.5 Ghz “old” box running Linux will run rings around a similar computer loaded with Windows. And Ubuntu is more similar to Windows than the Mac OS is, and almost completely effortless and transparent in maintenance. A link to the Ubuntu FAQ site and/or a few help sites/tutorials on their desktop, Open Office and either Firefox or Opera (my choice) for a browser, and they’re just about set. I’d add a few (FREE) multimedia add-ons, if it were me, but right “out of the box” Ubuntu is ready to just be used.

So why would I definitely load something like Ubuntu Linux on a used box I’d be giving a friend or family member?

They’ll likely never have a licensing issue come up. Their computer just almost will not crash. for example, I’ve been running a box I put together recently 24X7 ever since it first booted with nary a problem, no slowdown, no freezes, no crashes, etc. about like my Linux router and other Linux boxes I’ve built. My most stable Windows configuration is a box built to use Windows 2000 Pro. It’s pretty stable, but not in the class of the Linux boxes I’ve built.

And each and every box I’ve built and tested in Windows v. Linux configurations have been loads faster as Linux boxes, even with all the GUI stuff added on.

So, you want to give a friend or family member an old computer but don’t want them to think you’re the cheap bastard you really are? Clean it up nicely and make sure the hardware’s in the best possible shape (and do consider slapping a new hard drive in). Make it an Ubuntu Linux box, loaded with all the really good Open Source software you can find.

They’ll wonder why you don’t want it any more. And so, very likely, will you.

*heh*

October 30, 2006

Special Halloween Issue: The Nightmare on Main Street Edition of the GTB Blogburst

By Heidi at Euphoric Reality

I was having a helluva time writing an article for this week’s GTB Blogburst. Over the weekend, I started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration. For instance, I started one on President Bush’s new fence bill – the one that has no funding – and it was hard for me to work up any outrage, since I wasn’t surprised at such an empty gesture. In fact, I was expecting nothing less from this President, and that’s a sorry indictment of how faithless he’s become. The President’s abrogation of this issue has boiled my blood for years, and is one of the main reasons why I am no longer a Republican, but now a furious and rebellious Independent. As I mulled over what to say about Bush’s latest nothingness, I realized that anything I had say about his treason on this issue, I’ve already said before – and then some.

So I started another article about the effect of the immigration issue on elections; or rather, the effect it should have, but isn’t. Because here we are at election time again, having to hold our noses to go elect more of the same do-nothing politicians. Yeah, the same types who have successfully ignored the will of the people for so many years. Out of a nation of 300 million people, you’d think we could field a few really top notch candidates for leadership at any level. But noooo…

The point is that I remain uninspired and severely jaded. Call it writer’s block, or call it a crisis of faith, but… I. GOT. NUTHIN’.

So, in a late hour attempt to find some really good material to offer our faithful Blogburst readers, I sent out a request to our affiliates for their favorite links this week, which I could compile for everyone’s convenience. Thus, this week’s Blogburst is a little bit of a Trick or Treat – some chilling, and some funny. Which is apropos, considering that our nation’s immigration policy is a monstrous nightmare for mainstream Americans.

The Nightmare on Main Street Edition of the GTB Blogburst

So Bush signed a law to create a border fence. Here is an image of the fence as designed by a joint committee of Mexicans and Liberals, and approved by Bush…

“Report an illegal to the Feds and watch the Feds sit on their hands!”

Minuteman 2.0.: The Minuteman project was a publicity stunt; we now need to take it to the next level and have citizen patrols guarding the border.

“Needed: Border Billboards”: As soon as sniper posts are erected along our borders, we’ll need some billboards erected that read something like this…

The Carpentersville Saga: Carpentersville Illinois is pursuing a Hazelton style ordinance, but as these two videos show, not if the pro crime Hispanics and their supporters have anything to say about it!

The C’Ville Video

New Freedom Folks Video: C’ville Video Update

“The US Border Patrol and Border Police are Out Gunned, Out Manned and Facing an Enemy with Technological Superiority Over Them!”: You knew illegals were coming into the USA daily, but did you know that down in Mexico they are literally being brought up to the border by the train load? The report has the pictures to prove it!

Trains from Central America and Mexico en route
to the U.S. border

Wild Thing sent some more jarring photos of our uninvited and unwelcome and undocumented “guests”- and no, these are not crazy Halloween costumes:

If you think illegal immigration is nothing more than “good hard-working people, with good intentions” sneaking in here for a little harmless Trick-or-Treat, then these posts from some of the strongest contributors to Guard the Borders will convince you of the ghoulish truth.

Many thanks to Third World County, Mr. Ogre, Freedom Folks, PC Free Zone, and the Independent Conservative.

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our Blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to admin at guardtheborders dot com.

October 30, 2006October 30, 2006

Is Islam Evil?

Well, in a word, yes.

Read here, here and here for a start.

Or how about here, here and here.

Despite lying defenses by soi-disant “moderate” muslims, politicians *spit* and Mass Media Podpeople, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and all their partners in crime, the simple fact is that Muslims who engage in mass miurder, slavery, female mutilation and the murder of rape victims are well within the norms of the life and teachings of The Butcher of Medina*. Muslims who fail to condemn, work to erradicate or even actively support those who genuinely and openly follow the true teachings of Mohammed (he who is the progenitor and prototype of all Islamic terrorism) are just as guilty of being “true Muslims” as the open practitioners of Mohammed’s example themselves.

There can be no true follower of Mohammed who is unwilling to follow Mohammed’s clear example and lie, cheat, steal, murder, torture and enslave others to further the sick cult of Mohammed.

Contrast that with followers of Jesus of Nazareth, He who condemned lying, cheating and stealing; who insisted that hating someone was as bad as killing them, condemned slander and praised doing good to one’s enemies.

It’s simple: monsters who claim to be following the founder of Islam are telling the truth. Monsters who claim to be following the founder of Christianity are liars.

It’s just that simple. Regardless of the monsters, for example, who falsely claimed to be Christian yet tortured and killed those whose theology differed from theirs in the Inquisition, their claim of following Christ in doing so is revealed as a lie by the very words and deeds of the Man whom they claimed to be following.

In contrast, the monsters who, even today, claim to be Muslim who torture, kill, enslave and brutalize those who differ with their cult are doing so in direct discipleship of the one who founded their religion.

Yes, Islam is evil. So-called “moderate” Muslims are either self-decieved or lying to everyone else. Any other conclusion is unsupportable by facts.

In closing, a little of the respect due the Butcher of Medina:

Sneaking on onto the bulletin board at Ferdy’s and hanging a copy on the hatrack at Bullwinkle’s place and handwriting on the wall at Committees of Correspondence…

Position Updates