Grammar Nazis

October 11th, 2006 by Administrator

It’s ironic to receive hatemail from someone criticizing grammar mistakes in a blog posting by unleashing a string of expletives. Evidently some believe that correct grammar makes one sound more educated and erudite when spiced with expletives. It’s even more ironic when some of the saucy language itself is misspelled!

Carlos Mencia has a word for people such as these:
Dee Dee Dee!

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North Korean Nuke Test

October 9th, 2006 by Administrator

I got a copy of Kim Jong-Il’s recent North Korean nuke test.

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HP Ethics Scandal Continues

October 6th, 2006 by Administrator

The Register has a good synopsis, including email transcripts.

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Pathetic Protest Passes

October 5th, 2006 by Administrator

Looked out my window and watched a protest march down Market St. in Center City Philly this afternoon. The group was small, and vastly outnumbered by cops who ringed their march. The group covered about half a city block while marching - so I’d estimate it to be about 200 at best. Onlookers were scarce, as most of the business district is finishing up the day’s business.

I had seen an ad for the protest in the local freebie paper that litters the streets, as well as the men’s room floor in the building. The group demanded people quit their jobs and cut classes to attend the protest. Judging by the turnout, hardly anyone did.

The signs were the usual “Impeach Bush” along with crudely drawn caricatures that are so cliche that I can’t imagine them eliciting any emotional response from anyone except the other protesters. “Say, I like your Bush. Nice dumbo ears.” “Thanks, I dig your beady eyes.”

The protest passed within seconds, with taxis making more noise as they cut each other off and honked horns catching fares.

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Laying down a bitch slap…

October 4th, 2006 by Administrator

I’m not a violent person, and it takes a lot to piss me off.

One of the things that does is arrogance - especially from a “nobody” on the internet.

So it’s good to find that I remember how to dig deep into the muck at the bottom of my soul and sling it, after some jerk-off who claims to be from New Zealand laughs at my predicament.

So I respond:

I have been putting PCs together since you were suckling from your mother’s breast which, judging by your asinine responses, was probably just last week.

Gee what a sad and pathetic human being you must be. You’ve been spending waaaay too much in that fantasyland where you are a biiiig man.

Instead of crafting nifty GIF logos and Matrix-sounding handles, why don’t you try getting married, raising a family, building a career, starting your own business and running a non-profit? You see, unlike you I’ve actually done all these things and more.

I’ve lived in Japan and heard temple bells ring on New Years Eve. I’ve danced to soukous music with Tongwe tribesmen in a place that’s inaccessible accept by speedboat in Africa. I’ve seen industrial bands at the Smart Bar in Chicago, and had one-one conversations with Jane Goodall and Jonas Salk. I’ve been to actual places, done actual things and met actual people.
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You need to turn off your PC, get laid and get a life you sorry sack of sh*t.

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Congress is not the Vatican

October 2nd, 2006 by Administrator

Congress shouldn’t cover up pedophilia - regardless of the consequences.
Election year or not, Dennis Hastert needs to resign.
I mention this after watching him claim that his own aides kept the information about Foley’s fondness for 16 year old boys.

I might be a Republican, but I sure as hell don’t put up with child molesters.

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Neil Armstrong Was Right…

October 2nd, 2006 by Administrator

After all.
An Aussie scientist has reviewed the original tape recording of the astronaut’s famous “One small step…” statement and discovered that the self-assured hero was right after all: He did say “for a man.”

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New Light Shed on the Schiavo Case

October 1st, 2006 by Administrator

Published by the Washington Times on October 1, 2006

On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo died after her husband Michael Schiavo ordered her deprived her of food and water for 13 days, ending a bitter fight between her family and her husband that had divided America and reached the highest levels of our government.
As writer for the online journal or “blog,” The Razor, in 2003 I joined an effort called “Blogs for Terri” to help her parents Mary and Robert Schindler stop Michael from ending Terri’s life. For nearly two years I championed Terri’s right to life on the Internet, in letters to the editor and calls to politicians and journalists.
As an atheist and amateur scientist, I found myself in the company of the religious who supported the Schindlers for reasons of faith as they tried to save what they believed to be their daughter’s life. My lack of religious convictions, including a belief in an afterlife, did not deter me from what I still believe was an honorable endeavor that, in the end, became yet another grave injustice in the world.
Those of us who supported the Schindlers were stunned at the vehemence of Michael Schiavo’s supporters. Fellow writer and blogger Dean Esmay, who shares my views on this matter and joined “Blogs for Terri,” received abusive comments and e-mails calling him a coward for not disavowing the Schindler family after Terri’s autopsy report was released — a report some believed proved undeniably that Terri was brain-dead. Mr. Esmay writes that Michael Schiavo’s supporters felt vindicated by the report, and also felt it necessary that “Terry’s parents, siblings, and childhood friends needed to be denounced as 100 percent wrong, and Michael Schiavo had to be lauded as 100 percent right, period. To suggest anything to the contrary was simply evil. Or, at best, boneheaded: anti-science, anti-rational, anti-humanist, anti-everything-good.”
As a political commentator, I am used to being pilloried for my stances on controversial issues. However, the vicious attacks leveled at those of us who questioned the medical opinions on the Schiavo case, or Michael Schiavo’s motives, continue to puzzle me.
It is very likely Terri was brain-dead. If so, then what happened to her body would not matter to her. Therefore it didn’t matter if it was buried under ground, cremated (as indeed it was) or fed and cared for in a nursing home.
On the other hand, her parents believed she was not brain-dead but brain-damaged. That is an important distinction, since we as a society do not sanction the murder of “defectives” who fail to meet an arbitrary standard such as “quality of life.” Her family believed Terri’s rehabilitation was possible and that she could someday regain consciousness.
Given the finality of death, and the doubts raised by experts on both sides of the issue, I recognized there was sufficient uncertainty about her condition to warrant keeping her body alive.
The medical establishment, however, firmly sided with Michael Schiavo and his belief that Terri was beyond rehabilitation. So did the majority of Americans, according to public opinion polls taken at the time. The courts agreed, and Michael Schiavo was allowed to mercy-kill his wife.
A year and a half later, the medical establishment is again in the news — this time unable to explain why a commonly prescribed sleep medication, Zolpidem, known in the United States by the brand-name “Ambien,” has successfully awakened patients suffering similar persistent vegetative states as Terri Schiavo, according to a Sept. 12 article in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. The Guardian reports a family doctor in South Africa made the discovery when Louis Viljoen had laid in a deep coma for 5 years after being hit by a truck. He had begun involuntarily twitching, causing him to tear at the bed sheets, so a nurse suggested his doctor prescribe the young man a sedative. The doctor prescribed Zolpidem.
Twenty-five minutes later, after his mother had given him the crushed pill mixed in water, Louis opened his eyes and said “Hello, Mummy.” Today, seven years later, Louis Viljoen still takes a daily dose of Zolpidem and is recovering.
Doctors have no idea how the drug works, or why. All they know is that areas that appeared dead on brain scans show activity once the drug is taken. While most of the patients given the drug continue to display signs of brain damage, they are now able to communicate and move, suggesting further rehabilitation is possible.
It is quite likely Terri Schiavo would not have responded to Zolpidem given the 15 years she had been in her persistent vegetative state. However, there is a chance she would have — especially had the drug been administered earlier in her treatment. Unfortunately for Terri and her family, we will never know for sure.
For those of us who fought for Terri, the successful treatment of those in a persistent vegetative state using Zolpidem can only be compared to the discovery of evidence exonerating an executed man.
This revolutionary treatment should give pause to the majority of Americans who sanctioned the mercy-killing of Terri by her husband — aided and abetted by a legal system that refused to give an innocent woman the same thing it gives accused murderers: the benefit of the doubt.

SCOTT KIRWIN
A freelance writer who blogs at The Razor (therazor.org) and lives in Delaware.

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Followers of Religion of Peace Target French High School Teacher

October 1st, 2006 by Administrator

A French high school teacher says some stupid things about Islam and receives death threats, and the government refuses to protect him.

That’s ok, monsieur. You don’t need the government to protect you. All you need is one of these.

Courtesy: Uzi Talk

Oops! No Second Amendment in France. Too bad.

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The Cut and Run Party

September 29th, 2006 by Administrator

President Bush nails it:

“I strongly believe that Iraq is a central front in the War on Terror. The Democrats may not think so, but Usama bin Laden does,” Bush said.

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Data Recovery from a Dead Hard Drive

September 27th, 2006 by Administrator

I’m on a mission from G-d.

12 days ago I killed this drive when I accidentally plugged in the power backwards.

Click here for closeup.

Yes I know the molex plug is keyed, but I still managed to do it and pfffft! killed the drive’s logic board.

Here are it’s stats:
Western Digital 80 GB Caviar IDE Drive
Model: WD800JB-00FMA0
Man Date: 23 April 2004
DCM: HSBHNTJCH

On this drive there are about 3 gigs of the Wife’s photos SHHHH! Don’t say a word!
And a poem that (I kid you not) I have been composing for 16 years, adding one verse on the same day every year.

So far I scored one drive off Ebay with the same model number, but the DCM was different and swapping the logic board didn’t boot it.

If anyone has this drive laying around, let me know.

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Dog Park Rule #1

September 27th, 2006 by Administrator

If you don’t neuter your dog, don’t bring him to the dog park.

Last night some guy brought his “unaltered” male schnauzer to the dog park. The dog commenced to hump everything in sight. At first he politely pulled his dog off the other dogs but got tired of it after awhile and pretty much forced the job onto the other owners.

Soon a rather attractive young woman came into the park with her small Chiahuahua-mix. The guy zeroed in on the girl as soon as she entered the enclosure, and his dog was all over the chiahuahua. He tried to chat her up as the woman struggled to keep her dog away from the male. The guy was completely clueless that the actions of his horny dog pretty much outweighed the moves he was putting on the girl.

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We’ve Got a New Dog…

September 25th, 2006 by Administrator

… a young dopey lab-border collie mix with a gentle nature and a fear of vacuum cleaners.

Pix are forthcoming.

I’m looking forward to going home again.

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Welcome to America

September 22nd, 2006 by Administrator

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Slender, elegant, stylish and articulate (in English, Dutch and Swahili), she has found an intellectual home here at the American Enterprise Institute, where she is writing a book that imagines Muhammad meeting, in the New York Public Library, three thinkers — John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper, each a hero of the unending struggle between (to take the title of Popper’s 1945 masterpiece) “The Open Society and Its Enemies.'’ Islamic extremists — the sort who were unhinged by some Danish cartoons — will be enraged. She is unperturbed.

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HP Scandal: How Executives Think

September 22nd, 2006 by Administrator

This Washington Post article walks through the anatomy of the sting operation set by the HP board on Dawn Kawamoto, a CNET reporter. It shows how even the highest members of a multi-national firm can act like second rate actors in a bad episode of Moonlighting.

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