Monthly Archives: April 2008

Safari for Windoze

April 29, 2008
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Safari for Windoze

For the first time, Apple has decided to escape platforms and enter the browser wars. Safari, Apple’s OSX browser is now available for Windows XP and Windows Vista machines — and it is blazing fast. I was skeptical when I first heard about it a month ago. I have had issues with websites and Safari for a long time. Nothing ever seemed to work correctly, it couldn’t read Javascript or it wouldn’t display many of the attributes. Safari was something I would eventually test a web design in only because there were a tiny number of people who insisted on buying Macs. But the other day I decided to check it out. I downloaded a copy and installed it on my Vista machine and was immediately impressed by the blazing speed of things. It is light weight, sleek, and not full of many frills. If you have a Vista or XP machine, go read up on this browser. Heck, download it and try it out for yourself.

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Hillary’s Bad Press Trick?

April 29, 2008
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It couldn’t have come at a worse time for Barack Obama. Jeremiah Wright is back in the news cycle “defending” his earlier statements and sermons and acting in such a way that it seems as though he is purposely trying to sabatage Obama’s bid for the presidential nomination. What gives? If he was hoping for a black man to obtain the highest office in the free world, then common sense would tell you that he should have remained as quiet as a church mouse. Unless he has another candidate in mind for that office. Errol Louis dug up some interesting background about Jeremiah’s sponsor at the National Press Club event on Monday. Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick? The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn’t have done more damage to Barack Obama’s campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that’s just what one friend of Wright wanted. Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds. A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry…

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Where’s Grouchy?

April 27, 2008
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Where’s Grouchy?

I know that I have been absent from here for a while, but that’s nothing compared to Grouchy. Frank and I were just talking about the fact that nobody has heard from Grouch for a while. Does anyone know where he is hiding?

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Inspection- On Inflation and Plausible Denial

April 25, 2008
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This week… early AM; Sirius news reporting, the price of food has soared “double digits.” Some people may be mad, but still not mad enough to unhook themselves from the imbecilic umbilical cord: TV. Meanwhile, gas prices have exploded. If we could build a combustion engine fueled by the rise and fall in fuel prices we’d have a perpetual motion machine.

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Globalization at Work

April 24, 2008
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Received in an email: What is the truest definition of Globalization? Just take Princess Diana’s death: An English princess, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashes in a French tunnel riding in a German car with a Dutch engine driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles. Then she was treated by an American doctor using Brazilian medicines. This was sent to me by an American using Bill Gates’ Microsoft technology, which is developed and produced all over the world. You’re probably processing it on your computer run by Taiwanese microchips and viewing it on a Korean monitor assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant and transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals! That, my friends, as McCain would say, is Globalization at work. From Phil Proctor at Planet Proctor.com

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Inspection- Shoe of Brian: a Short Vignette

April 20, 2008
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This edition of Inspection: using a vehicle called fiction instead of some pompous rant, is a commentary on the Pope’s visit and Bush’s comments regarding that visit.. Some believers find faith a way to expand their minds. So did Barack O’Bama mean “all” when he offended the far too easily offended: a current mental condition infecting both sides of the Democratic Party divide right now? But I don’t believe he meant “all” use religion, or guns, as some crutch or to excuse themselves for their bigotry, their hatred and intentional narrow-mindedness. And he was right: unfortunately too many people are looking for some simplistic formula they can cling to: a hatred they can hang their hats on. They want to be told something, anything, anyone: certainly not themselves or their own social group, is “the” problem; and that something, someone, some group, some weapon, some faith can solve this problem. Then they interpret what they have been told for their own purposes: so they can turn that “weapon” on others they find disagreeable. They arrive at their own personal “who or what is at fault” formula, one might say. These “formulas” are usually “discovered” by over reliance on out of…

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The Tattlesnake The Media Elite Highlight Their Own Elitism Edition

April 15, 2008
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The bored and restless Punditrocracy, maintaining their staunch avoidance of relevance or importance, furiously lit like garbage scow flies upon Barack Obama’s alleged ‘elitism’ for pointing out that people in small towns are bitter and angry at being ignored by politicians once they’ve been elected. He added, if one bothered to listen to more than the out-of-context soundbite of his San Francisco comments, that they tend to vote for things such as guns and God and against immigrants because these are issues which the GOP has carefully constructed as distracting vents for their boiling frustrations. Contrary to the Pundicrats gasping shock at such a blunder as telling the truth they hate that Obama didn’t seem to rile voters much with his ‘bitter’ talk many even agreed wholeheartedly. Of course the Hill People, sensing the nearness of electoral oblivion, had to get what political mileage they could out of Obama’s ‘gaffe,’ but Hillary herself might have left out the prosaic and artificial-sounding anecdote of her father taking her out as a small child and teaching her how to shoot a firearm. Growing up in the same ’50′s America as Hillary, it just doesn’t seem credible to me that…

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Inspection- Ken’s Neo Con… spiracy Theory

April 13, 2008
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The Neos are up to something… To paraphrase an over quoted scene from a movie: “Proof? I ain’t got no proof. I don’t need no stinkin proof.” One of Bill Clinton’s last acts, if I remember the timing right, was to redesign our money. George Bush; with his “I can do everything better than the Clintons and my father did,” fetish: his desire to erase everything done by Bill and outdo his father, redesigned them again… poorly. The day after they were redesigned a warehouse of new, counterfeit, bills were discovered. They just got the color slightly wrong: proving that securing our currency by redesign is probably best left to an occasional effort at best. Of course “securing our currency” is most likely not the goal of the Neo Cons whose mentor: Grover Norquist, has sought to find any possible way to drown the government our forefather’s fought and died for in a bathtub. And how much tax money was ripped out of our pockets for this useless endeavor? Dumping the large quantity of new bills that money machines deliver: like the self serve teller machines at grocery stores, would tank the economy very fast if something wasn’t done to…

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AAR Shoots Self in Ass and Hits Brain Matter

April 10, 2008
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After a week of speculation and wonder, the whole Randi Rhodes story emerges — and it is pretty damn sinister. We find out today that Randi Rhodes has terminated her contract with Air America and why. Remember, the “official Air America story” was that Randi was suspended for calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro “Fucking Whores” during a comedy monologue at a private fund-raising event for San Fransisco’s “Green 960″ (960 AM) Well, today we find out that the suspension was a ruse put on by Air America to force Randi into signing a new contract that changed a crucial clause that would allow Air America to fire her for cause if they felt the need. They literally held her microphone hostage contingent on forcing her to sign a new contract because the new owners didn’t like the contract that they had bought into when they purchased Air America. She referred to it as “buyer’s remorse”. Under the terms of the contract, Air America knew that they couldn’t fire her, and by keeping her on suspension she felt that the contract was thereby breeched and so SHE terminated it by quitting, and was immediately picked up by the Nova M…

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Ye Olde Scribe Presents: Interesting, But Rejected, Campaign Jokes, Songs and Slogans

April 10, 2008
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And now, Ye Olde Scribe Fly On the Wall Productions Somewhat Proudly Presents… Interesting, But Rejected, Campaign Slogans Scribe’s cloned flies on the wall have been busy bouncing from campaign to campaign to collect these. John McCain seems to have a fly fetish so his headquarters has had to have an extra dose of clone infestation. They’ve been cloned so many times their getting almost as dull as John. Here is what they reported back as slogans and jokes for speeches that have been considered, but rejected… Slogans Hillary… “Vote for the babe with less tact and a whole lot more, “Ack! Ack!” Barack… “Our nation: out of the red, into the Black.” McCain… “Bringing the Hanoi Hilton experience out of Iraq and into America.”

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