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June 11, 2007June 11, 2007

Grizzlies? Not Even That

Give a skunk a poodle cut and a dye job and it’s still a skunk.

And that’s what “Fifi” Bush, Felipe Calderon’s lapdog (a gift from Vicente Fox) and his partners in crime still trying to keep their amnesty bill alive really are.

Take action. Call your senators. If they have already come out in opposition to the bill, call in support. If they have not yet done so, encourage them to shoot it down. If they have supported the bill, call and politely, firmly, assertively voice your opposition and state that if they continue to support this bill, you will devote every election cycle for the rest of your life to see that they never hold public office again.

And mean it.

BTW, someone mentioned to me privately that the graphic above was disrespectful to President Bush (Felipe Calderon’s lapdog–a strange lapdog, but then, Felipe Calderon and his government spout so much B.S. about illegal aliens, it’s even fitting there, IMO). That person is right. It IS disrespectful toward President Bush. But not nearly as disrespectful as he has repeatedly proven himself to be by blatantly lying about this bill, about those who oppose it and about his agenda in supporting surrendering our sovereignty to Mexico.

Disrespectful? Disrespect is the least he deserves for deliberately sabotaging the enforcement of laws already on the books to protect U.S. sovereignty. The last I knew, his DUTY, as President, was to

“…take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” (Constitution, Article 2, section 3)

And the president, any president, who deliberately, wilfully and habitually fails to uphold the laws–indeed, takes steps to undermine their faithful execution–of the U.S. should be impeached, tried and convicted of malfeasance and removed from office.

But perhaps I am a tad extreme. I felt Clintoon should have been removed for lying under oath (and still every time I read recently of Willian Jefferson being indicted, my mind’s ear automatically wants to hear “William Jefferson CLINTON”). Now, in pledging to fulfill his duties as president, Fifi Bush has done so as well. Lied under oath… while giving his oath to faithfully execute the duties of his office.

Oh, well. I have long said that if the laws we have were enforced; if illegal aliens were refused government services (as they routinely are–by law!–in Mexico), etc., that we would see a migration OUT of this country by illegal aliens. Quickly.

Jerry Pournelle proposes something similar, and still generously notes a way he would allow illegal aliens to qualify for citizenship, a route I would actually endorse.

“…as I have often said, the proper way to deal with illegal immigrants, is (1) close the border, (2) pay a bonus to any who will voluntarily leave — say $4,000 or so, which is significant to them but still a savings to both nation and state; (3) instruct the police that any who come their attention as misfeasors of any serious degree be turned over to the authorities for detention and deportation and make that stick, (4) offer citizenship to any who spend 8 years in the armed services ending in honorable discharge, and (5) wait to see what happens then. I have no idea whether you would call that compassionate. It seems very reasonable to me.”

I’m not entirely happy with the idea of rewarding illegals with a bounty to “catch” and deport themselves, but even that I could live with, rather than accept the lies, damned lies and political promises of Fifi Bush’s amnesty bill. But because Pournelle’s suggestions make sense and actually would make strides to strengthen America, they will of course not be welcome by such as Fifi Bush and his partners in crime.

Shame on them all. Fifi Bush amd his co-conspirators in the surrender of U.S. soveriegnty are skunks, one and all, and in any society with more than two ounces of moral fiber would one and all be introduced to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether and taken on a long walk off a short pier.

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June 7, 2007June 7, 2007

T-13, 1.31: Thirteen Random Tech Notes

Any casual reader of this blog knows I’m a wee tad of a technophile. Moderately technogeeky, if you will. A few scraps of recent techy news I’ve found interesting, odd tips, and just oddities, etc.

1.) Blow out with canned air; dishwasher; no soap; blow out with canned air again; air dry one day minimum. Easiest way to really clean a normal, wired computer keyboard. Seriously. (I don’t recommend it for wireless keyboards only because someone would forget to remove the batteries and… yeh, you get it.)

2.) Me$$y$oft may have poohed the scrooch with Office 2007. Major academic and scientific publishers have announced they will turn down ANY submissions originally written using Office 2007, even if later saved in an earlier format. “…the power to dictate standards in the documents space may be starting to shift away from the world’s largest software vendor and toward the user community.” About time.

3.) Anyone else ignore EULAs (as I routinely do)? Biggest waste of electronic or dead tree print in the world, outside the Congressional Record or Dan Rather’s Secret Journal. All software publishers really need are the copyrights they already have. EULAs are almost always simply a means of bullying the end user, nothing else.

4.) Currently, the riskiest search engine out there, according to McAfee, is… Yahoo. Top-ranked for “red” and “yellow” flagged searches resulting in sites likely to install drive-by malware, etc. Along those lines… music and tech searches now outrank pr0n searches as riskiest.

5.) Oh, Yippee and hooray! *yawn* Mac share of web presence has reached the stellar height of… 6.46%. WTG, Macrodistas! Soon, Macs could well become a meaningful presence on the web! *heh* Of course, it’s INTEL-based models accounting for the growth… (Sadly, Macultists can no longer tout their supposed hardware platform superiority as a reason for their devotion. And since OSX is just a pretty straightjacket tacked on top of BSD, they no longer have their unique software platform to tout. ;-))

6.) Did you know that it is impossible to own too many computers? No, really. And I’m in the process of attempting to prove it… *heh*

7.) “Modding” cases. Yes, it IS possible to take this one too far. (I’ll never look at a hamster wheel the same way again… )

8.) I used to wonder how I was going to effectively catalogue and store all the floppies full of data I was generating; then it was tapes; then CDRs. I wonder when I’ll start wondering how I’ll keep track of all the DVDs full of data I’ve archived? I only have so much room for boxes full of spindles of data disks… have to save room for more computers, you know.

9.) I often wonder how folks manage to infect themselves with viruses (trojans and worms, oh my!). My only experience with an “infection” was when I intentionally infected a standalone (unconnected to any network) computer with a particularly hard to remove/clean boot sector virus for experience in removing it. (Knock on wood. :-)) Oh, I know how they can do it, but I wonder how the folks who infect themselves are also able to get to the grocery store and back without breaking a leg.

10.) I want one. Having trouble locating one to use with my old Palm m500 (the device shown attached). An OBDII-CAN reader interface (and software? firmware?) for reading with a Palm device.

Sure, I could just buy a simple OBDII reader for under $50, but this would be cool.

11.) I also need some good beer making/record keeping software for when someone finally buys me this. Yeh, I’ve lowballed my wish list. THIS is the real deal. 😉

12.) Anyone have a use for some old 30-pin memory sticks? *heh* Yeh, the stacks and boxes and bins of antiquated computer parts outnumbers the stacks and boxes and shelves full of computers here at twc central.

13.) All that said, shipping me your old computers to stockpile would probably be cheaper than paying for hazardous waste disposal… But please don’t. I have enough droipped on my as it is (quite apart from what I have… pulled from dumpsters and put online after some refurbishment *LOL*).

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June 6, 2007

Confirmed: President Bush is a Liar

Recently, President Bush has stood up on his hind legs and boldly denounced the civic irresponsibility, if not the actual patriotism, of those who have been inflaming the debate on S. 1348, the comprehensive immigration bill now being rushed through the senate, by calling it an amnesty bill for illegals. He has categorically stated in definite, sure and certain terms once again that it is NOT an amnesty bill for illegals.

Well, President Bush, you’re a liar. I’ve read the damned thing (speaking with theological hope), and SEC. 245B. ACCESS TO EARNED ADJUSTMENT, among other portions of the bill, outline exactly the amnesty you proposed (while denying it) last year when you said that in order to stay, illegal aliens would have to “pay a significant penalty”–that penalty being to prove they have stolen jobs from Americans and to start paying their taxes.

As I said at the time (you obviously didn’t get the message from my calls to the White House), “Gee, Mr. President, what am I being penalized for? Working and paying taxes is a penalty? That means you believe that all hard working Americans who pay taxes are being penalized. What kind of amnesty or forgiveness for illegal acts am I earning by paying my taxes?”

Excuse me a sec while I search for… there it is: throwing the bullshit flag on you, Mr. President.

Mr. President, your predecessor dishonored the office not by just screwing around in the Oval Office but by lying under oath in a formal court proceeding. You, sir *cough*, have dishonored the office by screwing the American people and lying about it to our faces. Go sit on Felipe Calderon’s lap, Fifi. That’s where you’ll find your “legacy” such as it may be.

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June 6, 2007June 6, 2007

Sign of the times

That the fake liberals (more properly known as genuine tyrannical reactionaries) of the contemporary left must lie about themselves, their views and their policy stances in order to be successful in politics is a given. After all, it’s just the extreme of behaviors needed by all politicians (lie to get the “job” and then lie to keep it). But the pretense defies suspension of disbelief when they begin discussing their religious “beliefs” as Democrappic presidential hopefuls did recently. As Kevin McCullough put it recently,

“Watching leading liberals openly discuss their faith is rather akin to thinking that porn stars are in some way serious thespians.”

Actually, that statement borders on slander… of porn stars. In comparison to most politicians *spit*–and most especially the fake liberals of the contemporary left–porn “actors” are shining examples of decency, honesty and propriety. Heck, compared to “it’s not amnesty, but my name is ‘Fifi‘ Bush (Felipe Calderon’s Lapdog),” porn “actors” are shining examples of decency, honesty and propriety.

Heck, give ’em all poodle cuts and change their names collectively to “Fifi“.

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