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I am not here, this is not me...

2008-05-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

...no matter what you think you see; I am not here, this is not me. This one's for T.F.

Google Docs and Spreadsheets Using the Opera Browser

2007-05-15T13:37:00.001-07:00

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country, while the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, yadayadayada. Yeh, yeh: just proving that Google lies when it balks at letting one use Opera to work with Google Docs and Spreadsheets, as some seem to have discovered. Well, it does work, but I'm singularly unimpressed with Google Docs/Spreadsheets. It's like working with a

"Springtime for Hitler... "

2006-12-20T07:46:00.000-08:00

Shades of Mel Brooks' "The Producers". *heh* As seen at third world county.

Finally, THE solution to the world's problems

2006-11-28T06:02:00.000-08:00

Either this guy's a genius beyond any intellect I am able to comprehend or he needs his meds moderated. I leave it to you to decide...

New Opera Widget may help Blogger users.

2006-11-23T20:55:00.000-08:00

Hmmm... Found this new widget for Opera, the True HTML Editor Widget. It seems to be pretty cool. Of course, everything's raw HTML/CSS in the left pane/output reflected in the right pane. Interesting. Even has a "Blog This!" button... Have to see if that works. Yep, but only for Blogger, it seems. Still, might not be a bad thing for Blogger users, and it'd be really helpful for me to get my

2006-10-04T23:48:00.001-07:00

Clinton's next interview after Wallace Finally, a reason to praise Clinton.

2006-10-04T23:48:00.000-07:00

Finally, a reason to praise Clinton h.t. The Pirate's Cove by way of Rightlinx via MsUnderestimated

The Fair Tax Interview on Hannity

2006-08-01T20:56:00.000-07:00

h.t. www.savethesoldiers.com Boortz on Fair Tax

FLY!

2006-06-15T19:20:00.000-07:00

Fly! Can't stop the grins, all the way through this! The music is The Mass

Me hat

2006-06-12T18:08:00.000-07:00

Not that anyone has asked for an up-to-date pic, but here I am in a self-portrait...*heh*

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

2006-06-11T15:33:00.000-07:00

Feel free to talk among yourselves. The topic is: Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. ...in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to

Education? MHWA!

2006-06-06T11:58:00.000-07:00

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." –Ralph Waldo Emerson It's moderately amusing that an otherwise fine article desparaging the bumbling hackery of (constitutionally improper, IMO) federal public education policy (bumbling hackery or a conspiracy of the elite to create more sheeple?) begins with a mis-citation of Emerson: "Consistency, they say, is the hobgoblin of

The FairTax Book—Now in Paperback!

2006-05-17T21:24:00.000-07:00

Of the critical issues facing America today-Islamic terrorism (heck, Islam. Leave it at that); Alien Invasion; Wavering manufacturing capabilities and other economic amphiboli; The staggering failure of public education and the eventual collapse of Social Security along with whatever straw breaks the camel's back of our national debt, one issue can be addressed clearly, unequivocally and

The Weapon

2006-05-08T15:17:00.000-07:00

The WeaponMichael Z. Williamson has the right idea about dealing with terrorists...

Hey Rube!

2006-05-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

OK, the downside of living in America's Third World County™. *sigh* For the past eleven years, we've lived in a very quiet neighborhood in a small town in America's Third World County™ where the loudest disturbances have been dogs barking at invading wildlife, the occasional sound of hunters over the hill (maybe a quarter mile off and well over a hill) during deer season and the mostly distant

Ain't No Sunshine

2006-04-22T21:17:00.000-07:00

Lighthouse Family - Greatest HitsActually, the cut below is a Lenny Kravitz single. Can't lay my hands on the original right now (yeh, yeh: I need to get my music better organized).Ain't No Sunshine

Linkfest Info

2006-04-04T11:21:00.000-07:00

Wanna take part in Linkfests? Here are some resources I recommend: The Open Trackback Alliance: Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at Linkfest Haven. And the Ping Poster Blogroll at the Conservative Cat And, of course, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday, I feature open trackback posts like this one at third world county

"Reconquistas" should mean "Deportees"

2006-04-01T09:00:00.000-08:00

What's with this Mexican flag flown above an inverted American flag by CA high school students? "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace,

The third world county "So, maybe they're commandments and maybe not" of blogging

2006-03-09T04:26:00.000-08:00

Ya wanna make something of it? :-) Sam, at The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns has offered Sam's 10 Commandments Of Blogging, Angel, of Woman Honor Thyself has a thoughtful piece up about blogging, Can Anyone Write a Blog?, and lady Diane has posts and tons of comments about her woes blogging (hosting, servers, wonky reloads, etc.). so I figure it's that time of year again, you know, when

Muhammed in a Pink Dress

2006-02-18T07:49:00.000-08:00

First, a PSA: Recently, Mike Adams wrote an open missive to the National Endowment for the Arts and published it with the title, The Queer Muhammed: an experiment in tolerance. Here's the leadoff: I write to you today, not with a request, but with a demand. I’ve been sitting back patiently while the NEA has been promoting anti-Christian “art” for a number of years. In fact, one could say

Third World County

2006-02-14T11:04:00.000-08:00

Monday, Monday

2006-02-13T10:43:00.000-08:00

Well, http://www.thirdworldcounty.us was down all day Sunday, and I ended up (temporarily--they're not back up yet) losing about a week's worth of posts. Notaproblem. Meanwhile, check out these: Tribute to a blogbro: Fight On!, from Romeocat. And Guard the Borders-021306, a crosspost for the GTB Blogburst. The action's here: http://www.thirdworldcounty.us

See my new digs

2006-02-07T13:46:00.000-08:00

It's been a good year and a quarter at Blogger, and I plan to do some "transitional posts" as I try to train those of y'all who are regular readers to Go Where The TWC Action Is. Please update your links to reflect http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/ as the REAL address for third world county. I'll still blog other things on Blogger (what with six or so other blogs including a recipe blog for my

The Night the Lights Went Out in TWC (Blogger)

2006-02-06T18:47:00.000-08:00

MAKE A NOTE OF THIS URL: http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/ All future third world county action will be there. Linkfests, curmudgeonly rants, wise posts from my co-conspirators (Diane, The English Guy and Romeocat), snark, oh-so-witty humor from yours truly (well, I laugh at my humor! :-) and more. Bring your own stuff on over there for the party. Grand opening this weekend with an All Weekend

About that Danish thing...

2006-02-06T16:36:00.000-08:00

I feel so left out. Musselmen are awefully angry at a few Danes for speaking (well, drawing) their piece in some cartoons. Where the hate spewed my way? Would I have to say something on the order of "Mohamed was the bastard offspring of a sypillitic dog having anal intercourse with a gonorrhetic sow"?Do you think that would do it, or should I have that translated into Arabic?Come on, Islamic

Reverse the flow (GTB/0pen Post)

2006-02-05T22:35:00.000-08:00

[This is a combo "Guard the Borders"/Open Post. See Open Post info below or in my Left sidebar.]Emmigration may just be the key...*heh* No, really: think about it for a second. Yes, we do need a wall and better (more) Coast Guard and Navy protection of our borders. Heck, we need thousands more customs agents to inspect imports.And that's just for proper security.But we do need gates in the walls

Superbowl Sunday yawn

2006-02-05T09:36:00.000-08:00

Yeh, yeh, I know: it's the biggest day of the year for some folks. It's a great party day for others. And very likely most folks with a TV here in the U.S. will at least catch parts of the Superbowl. But I'm not likely to. It's not that I think it's a waste of time (for me it would be) or that I don't have some appreciation for the game of football (I do). It's just that I'm not very interested

Drive-by "Recipe"

2006-02-03T23:20:00.000-08:00

Had several things I'd thought of posting for Carnival of the Recipes, but I'm outa time. let this stand in: Recently, I've been using a rather full-bodied dark roast coffee. Rich flavor. But it needed... something. Hand grater. Nutmeg. Atop coffee grounds before brewing: a few scrapes of freshly-grated nutmeg. (Addendum: DO NOT use pre-ground sawdust packaged as "ground nutmeg". *spit* You

Call me lazy...

2006-02-03T10:08:00.000-08:00

...I don't care. It'd be the truth. Why, the other day, before I'd had even one cuppa The Holy Brew and hence was operating at a serious caffeine-deficient level, I wanted the square root of 232, but my wheels stopped spinning at 15 (common square 15X15=225. Knew cos I had to memorize squares of whole #s up to the square of 25 in gradeschool). So, caffeine-deprived and lazy, I did what anyone

The War Against Democracy

2006-02-03T06:44:00.000-08:00

Provocative enough post title for ya? :-)Several things have converged to create this post: Reading (piecemeal) The Founders Constitution and steeping myself in the ground from which this country sprang. Antics in the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade, the Mass Media Podpeoples' Army, among Mixed Academia Nuts, the ACLU and all their ilk to sabotage what remains of the democratic republic the Founders

Missing the point /OP

2006-02-03T04:56:00.000-08:00

[NB. This is an 0pen Post. See the info below.]Hollyweird has been influenced too much by mixed academia nuts and isolated from the real world by its own preoccupation with celebrity. Witness the behavior noted by Where Have You Gone Ronald Reaganwherein the Hollyweird "academy" nominated Brokeback Mountain for four times as many Oscars as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Seems Hollyweird

Stop the ACLU

2006-02-01T21:57:00.000-08:00

This week's Stop the ACLU post is from Gribbit. This has been a very disappointing period of time for the ACLU. Two strict constructionists appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. One of which reviews Supreme Court appeals from the 9th Circus, Justice Alito. I have a feeling that there will be a lot of cases from the 9th making it to the Supreme Court as well as an increase in

More MMPA Cultural Illiteracy

2006-02-01T07:14:00.000-08:00

[Note: MMPA="Mass Media Podpeoples' Army"]In yesterday's best of the Web, James Tarranto cites this lil graph that lends itself to some morbid amusement:"In the original version of this report, Newsweek misquoted Falwell as referring to 'assault ministry.' In fact, Falwell was referring to 'a salt ministry'--a reference to Matthew 5:13, where Jesus says 'Ye are the salt of the earth.' We regret

SOTU/OTA Wednesday

2006-01-31T22:51:00.000-08:00

About that State of the Union address last night... I didn't watch this one, just as I have not watched the SOTU for several years, now. Instead, I read the transcribed address at the Whitehouse.gov site. I find the "sizzle" factor to be a distraction. How someone delivers a speech has some significance, but I just want the meat. On average, I'd probably give the speech a solid "B." An "A"

"Cross the Line"

2006-01-31T19:04:00.000-08:00

For an acid spoof of "Brokeback Mountain" (the movie about two homosexual sheepherders—duh, who'd-a thunk o' that?) see WHYGRR's "'Walk the Line' Re-write Features Bi-Curious Johnny Cash; Earns 9 Oscar Nominations" Pure snark. And rightly so.

Knock me over with a feather

2006-01-31T15:49:00.000-08:00

OK, so I've resisted moving off blogger for quite some time. Rich, The English Guy, generously offered me hosting and a Wordpress setup. Romeocat, of CatHouse Chat, nearly bowled me over when she offered me a Typepad account. Diane, of Diane's Stuff managed to do the impossible: she struck me senseless speechless (I had the sense to accept her offer, so it wasn't "struck senseless") by sending

Passable collection of security tips

2006-01-31T10:29:00.000-08:00

Every now and then PCMag has a really good collection of tips on one or another area of computing. Today, my inbox had an e- from PCMag with a link to "80 Super Security Tips ". Well they're not really "super" but most of them aren't half bad. Here are links to the first eleven, but watch out for the last one in this list. While having good password cracking software can save your bacon on a

A fine one to be talking...

2006-01-31T06:45:00.000-08:00

From John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU, this lil heads up: The newest full page ad from the ACLU over the NSA stuff is released on the eve of the State of the Union. Here is a little sample of their news release. "The State of Our Union Cannot be Strong if the President Continues to Violate the Law," Says Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU... Yeh, well, the truth of the matter is

Thanks for the nod, Rick

2006-01-31T06:18:00.000-08:00

Rick, over at The Real Ugly American gave me a laurel cap to wear as one of his blog picks for January. He's also tapped a coupla my fav blogs in his "Blog(s) of the Month" post. Thanks, guy!

Where have you been? Neat Google mapping hack

2006-01-31T06:10:00.000-08:00

Found this via a link over at Woody's News & Views States of the U.S. I've visited or lived in. create your own visited states map or check out these Google Hacks. Added Note: of those 44 states plus DC, I've only actually lived in Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The rest were visited during family forays as a child, other family visits as an adult, vacations and a

Dissing Jean Fraud/OP

2006-01-31T05:09:00.000-08:00

This is an 0pen Post. Link here (especcially with anything that disses John Kerry) and trackback. Here's the post link: http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2006/01/dissing-jean-fraudop.html And here's the trackback link: http://www.haloscan.com/tb/mnmus/113871316786467012/ Let's set aside, for today, my usual Tuesday dissing of Jean Fraud sKerry for his pathological lies, his insulting

UGH! So fine!

2006-01-30T18:38:00.000-08:00

You'll grin. Dian'es first foray into sync-ing music and "slideshow" is a real winner! Enjoy! I figger Bloggin' Outloud is a good place to make note of this...

A Note to Teddy, Jean Fraud and their ilk

2006-01-30T18:20:00.000-08:00

Nanny-nanny-boo-boo. (Just trying to keep the discourse at a level they can understand.) OTOH, On a level appropriate for adults, By a 72-25 vote, the Senate cut off a symbolic filibuster attempt today on the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr., all but assuring that the federal appeals court judge will be confirmed Tuesday morning by the Senate. Let's see now... voting against the

Call the Whitehouse Hotline TODAY!

2006-01-30T11:27:00.000-08:00

Last chance before the State of the Union Address. Get this out:The number is:202-456-1111The issue is: The Fair Tax.Call and ask that President Bush endorse The Fair Tax.If you aren't familiar with it, check here and here.Short and sweet? YOU choose your tax liability."...the FairTax bill would abolish all federal income taxes, death taxes, capital gains taxes, and payroll taxes and replace them

Rainy days and Mondays... OP

2006-01-29T22:14:00.000-08:00

Yeh. It's Monday.And looks like rain, too.I gotta case of it.And lotsa stuff to do.I'll add to this post later,[see below] but for now, link here and trackback. Need to go outside and take a bead on the vretin driving his "thumper" down the street...Check here for more Open Posts: OK, here's your treat for today, folks. Best piece of writing I've read for a while. h.t. James Lileks (who

January 30, 2006 Guard the Borders Blogburst

2006-01-29T22:00:00.000-08:00

By Heidi [Crossposted from Euphoric Reality] This first month of 2006 has seen a spate of unprecedented media attention to on-going border breaches such as drug smuggling tunnels and Mexican Army incursions. Deceitful Mexican government officials have disavowed any knowledge of such breaches, instead presenting laughable theories of "American soldiers disguised as Mexicans". Even our own

Rollin', rollin', rollin...

2006-01-29T08:25:00.000-08:00

A short bits roundup of sorts...Point Five wants us all to align our monitors pointing North (but doesn't say which end to point that way).Kender and Cao each go on a tear (and rightly so!) at The Wide Awakes.The MaryHunter pulls a "Wait 'til your daddy gets home!" with "When Jesus Returns, Boy Oh Boy..." *heh*Musings from Brian J. Noggle poses a bad analogybetween home ownership and "blaster

Something we WON'T see from our jackasses in D.C.

2006-01-28T14:04:00.000-08:00

Bolivian leader cuts his salary in halfLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivian President Evo Morales cut his salary in half and ordered that no Cabinet minister collect a higher wage than his own, with the savings being used to hire more public school teachers.Yeh, now that's something we need from prezes and congresscritters. Include all the perks, too. Cut 'em to the bone. Not only that, but make 'em

Happy Birthday, Wolfgang!

2006-01-28T07:11:00.000-08:00

...Wherever you are...Today (edit: well, OK, yesterday when this post was written--heh) marks the 250th anniversary of the birthday of Mozart. Below is a short piece written by the pre-teen (nine years old) Mozart during a visit to London in 1765. It's the only known piece of his that was originally written in English. From Psalm 46:1, God Is Our Refuge and Strength:The

Arresting Insurgents' Wives, Leverage?

2006-01-27T14:39:00.000-08:00

Now call me a right-winger if you want (says I, aghast at being called a liberal by someone before), but I think that that this opening paragraph of the ABC News article really puts this whole thing into perspective: The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.

The Law of Unintended Consequences Takes a Bite of the Apple?

2006-01-27T09:09:00.000-08:00

Well, perhaps.Apple's recent announcement that it's building PC clones with Intell-based chipsets prettily painted over with a veneer of OS X is really just making lemonade out of a whole big bunch of sour lemons. Why choose Intel chips? Well, cos Motorola and IBM have been wanting out of the PowerPC chip business for years-development had languished and setting up to fab new runs of the things

Poli-rant/0PEN P0ST

2006-01-27T01:04:00.000-08:00

Yet another 0pen Post. Check the OTA link below for more information about Open Posts, if the concept's new to you. Otherwise, links away! Oh, and once you've linked to this post, trackback to it so I don't have to go hunting down your brilliant prose, 'K?See for more linkfests, as well as the Open Trackback Alliance What is it with the Dems, anyway? I mean, seriously: at the national level

Thinking Strategically

2006-01-26T14:15:00.000-08:00

Want to know how to win the war on Islamic jihadist butchers? Jerry Pournelle points out some strategic steps we NEED to take in order to win this thing the smart way... Not the whole answer, but absent what he advocates, the task will be much higher in blood and treasure, as well as a lot less sure. The Iraqi War continues, but we don't do anything about the underlying causes of the war, which

Dems critiquing the faux-liberal takeover of a once-great party...

2006-01-26T13:52:00.000-08:00

Just read The Real Ugly American's post, Commie Radio Comes Crashing Down! Yeh, it's about a radio station, but really about so very much more. As I read it, I saw the obvious parallells even before Rick drew the straight black lines connecting the dots...

"Blackworm" D-Day approaches

2006-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

eWeek carries the warning today about "Blackworm"— The worm, which uses the lure of sexually explicit Kama Sutra photographs to trick e-mail users into executing an attachment, is programmed to deliver the destructive payload on the third day of every month... ...At 5:00 p.m. on Jan 24, more than 700,000 computers had already been infected by the worm, according to a stats counter used by the

BLOWN AWAY!

2006-01-26T11:03:00.000-08:00

I never even imagined imagining an embouchure like this guy demonstrates! (But I'd not want to be the one to clean his trumpets... ) h.t. to DNW for the link to this amazing display (again, via email). blown at Conservative Cat

A Pearl of Great Price

2006-01-26T10:44:00.000-08:00

Actually, the "System Administrator Song" is... priceless. (No, really: priceless. View/listen for free! *heh*) h.t. to DNW for the link (via email) Sung out at Basil's Picnic.

Best anaolgy of the week

2006-01-26T10:05:00.000-08:00

Carol Platt Liebau, in a brief post, A Plank in the Eye, on Hillary being portrayed as someone leading "... the charge against corruption and incompetence in government..." invokes an analogy you simply must not miss. Yeh. It's a day later and it still makes me grin. WTG, Carol! While you're there, read some of her other posts. You'll find her pithy commentary addictive.

Trying out Wordpress

2006-01-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

OK, so operating on my Tightwad Modus Operandus, I'm giving Wordpress a shot at the relatively new Wordpress.com freebie site. It's not bad, but the freebie site so far doesn't let me upload my own template, has a very, very cumbersome means of adding links (hence no real blogroll as yet), doesn't let me directly edit my template, has the same 9or similar) clunky text/quasi, sorta, half-assed

Climate change/climate schmange

2006-01-26T08:28:00.000-08:00

This guy almost had me. First paragraph I saw on his blog: If you have i.e you will have noticed the formatting problems, i`ve been trying to sort this but no success so far (if you can figure out the problem all advice welcome Calvin dot Jones at gmail dot com). Alternatively to get away from this problem, get yourself a decent browser like Firefox or Opera! OK, so he has a healthy view of

Stop the ACLU Blogburst

2006-01-26T08:17:00.000-08:00

This in from Jay at Stop the ACLU Crossposted from Stop The ACLU Convincing liberals that the ACLU is leading us down a dangerous path is about as productive as talking to a rock. Perhaps this is because I mostly deal with far left liberals who share the same insane views and have the same radical agenda as the ACLU. Anyone who believes that the ACLU is there to purely defend the Constitution

"Wasms"

2006-01-26T08:07:00.000-08:00

Communism, socialism, liberalism, pragmatism, utilitarianism and yes, even conservatism all inevitably wreck themselves upon the rock of Unintended Consequences, and their brightest ideals become "wasms." The reason why the highest ideals and practical decisions of human wisdom inevitably fail is because we can only guess at their outcomes. Pragmatism is perhaps the most glaring failure, because

What? Blogger's up?

2006-01-26T07:29:00.000-08:00

Powered by Castpost Hmmm... have to wait on some feedback here, but for me, Blogger was "down" for more than 13 hours past its scheduled 30-minute downtime. Back in the saddle again, I guess. Sooo... was reading The English Guy's Networks and Security blog and ran across this: "Skype may assist botnet attacks" The post points to the fact that the proprietary technologies of Skype and Vonage

The Prisoner/0PEN P0ST

2006-01-24T22:01:00.000-08:00

Note the 0PEN P0ST info below.Just a quickie:Anyone remember this show from the 60s? Frustrating piece of work... always thought Tantalus had it easy compared to Number Six. Ah, well, at least it was my second memorable exposure to Patrick McGoohan (have "Secret Agent Man" stuck in my head now. Arrrr!).Spyware of the 1960s. A different thing to spyware today... Ah, well...:-)Yeh, this is an open

How to fold a t-shirt (for the "folding-impaired")

2006-01-24T15:10:00.000-08:00

You don't need to speak/understand Japanese to get the technique (although I have to wonder if the demonstrator isn't reciting a dirty Japanese limerick while showing how to fold a t-shirt... ) How to fold a t-shirt (for the "folding-impaired") PSa at The Conservative Cat where Ferdy is waging unending war on spammers...

Apple iMac PC? yawn

2006-01-24T13:40:00.000-08:00

Just checked out a PC Magazine article featuring the Apple iMac PC with the Intel dual core. "Setting the Intel chipset free!" is the silly Mac commercial airing, now. *yawn* Let's see... ~$1,800 for a decently configured INTEL computer running the Mac OS X... Or ~$1,200 for a similarly configured (or slightly better--and including a 20" LCD screen as the Apple iMac PC does) regular ole

Drive-by post

2006-01-24T12:01:00.000-08:00

"Gore to publish book on global warming" (What? Another one? Get with it, Al. The catchphrase for au courant enviro-wackos is "climate change") Deadly freeze claims more lives in Eastern Europe (The atypical cold weather in Europe this winter is reported to be featured in Algore's book's arhythmia section as proof of global warming... along with...) "Skating flamingos, swollen elephant ears in

Head 'em up; move 'em out!

2006-01-24T09:36:00.000-08:00

Here's a roundup for ya:It Is About Time We Were Politically Incorrect Part II from All Things Beautiful. Preach it Alexandra. (And don't miss It Is About Time We Were Politically Incorrect Part I.) Regarding the intolerance of the left for religion (as long as that religion espouses Judeo-Christian principles) in America,And, as I recall, the Founders wrote a great deal about the fact that if

Free Kerry's 180/0PEN P0ST

2006-01-23T22:13:00.000-08:00

Yep. Link here and trackback: it's an Open Post.Normally, Tuesday is a "Free John Kerry's 180" day, and, really, today's no exception.But today is a very different kind of "Free Jean Fraud sKerry's 180" day. Today, I'm asking both of my readers *heh* to finish this thought:"Jean Fraud sKerry's lies and obfuscations in pursuance of avoiding the release of the records he has

Bonus Guard the Borders

2006-01-23T18:23:00.000-08:00

Here's a bonus crosspost from Heidi at Euphoric Reality Last week, those of us who keep an eye on border issues noticed that several mainstream media sources had featured articles about the regular Mexican military incursions over our borders and into our country. This is nothing new, as the Border Patrol has documented hundreds of such illegal incursions by an armed Mexican military over the

Sorta Beef Stroganoff

2006-01-23T09:21:00.000-08:00

Actually, you might call this Quick Quasi Stroganoff. heh Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (actually, ground chuck or better, or shredded, leftover roast)1 medium yellow (scourge) onion, chopped 1-2 cloves of garlic, minced (or use your garlic press) 1 can mushroom soup (yeh, I use the fat free) 8-12oz sour cream (for this, the fat free sour “cream” does fine, too) about ½ tsp freshly grated

The New Slave Trade--Guard the Borders

2006-01-23T05:19:00.000-08:00

America's problem with slavery didn't end in 1865 at Appomattox. After that, wage slavery was still as common-or more-as before, for example. And today, we have a moral problem of gargantuan proportions as we allow the import of illegal labor in order to keep effective wages depressed.Yep. Our porous border is a dual assault on those at the low end of the earnings curve. Offer what jobs they may

Conspiracy of dunces or...

2006-01-22T22:58:00.000-08:00

...a conspiracy to create dunces?But first, some housekeeping: this is an open post. Link to this post and trackback.Now, to the topic of this post. Jerry Pournelle is no wild-eyed conspiracy nut, but he does note something interesting about America's broken system of public education:Of course if the goal is to see that the children of people rich enough to send their children to private schools

Carnival at Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea

2006-01-22T05:54:00.000-08:00

Christine, who honored me by adopting me as her blogfather for Blogfathers Day, is hosting this week's Carnival of the Recipes. Delicious food, beautifully presented (of course) at Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea. Go. Graze the buffet. I'm gonna have some of that Lazy Broad's Smoky Chicken to start... (I'm a baaaaad dad. I forgot Christine was hosting the Carnival of the Recipes this week and

Do you have a MICE problem?

2006-01-22T05:41:00.000-08:00

No, not that kind. a Windows Metafile Image Code Execution problem. Sure, Microsoft offered a patch for Windows 2000, XP and 2003, and even promised to take the offending code out of Vista, but apparently folks still running NT and those who rin WINE (a popular Windows emulator) are still vulnerable. Get the scoop (and a FREE tool to test your system) from Steve Gibson. Lotsa other info about

If I ever...

2006-01-21T09:10:00.000-08:00

If I were ever to have a Neon car, I'd want it painted a bright, "neon yellow." And since we name our cars, I'd have to name it... Leon Deon Neon Neon. (My dad suggested Old Yeller, but I don't think I'd wanna go there.)

Four &^%*#$ Things... :-)

2006-01-21T07:05:00.000-08:00

Well, some time ago Mel tagged me with the pseudo-meme-ish tag game "Four Things". I promised her I'd get A Round Toit Real Soon Now. I didn't put as much into it as Diane did (fine job, D!) Four things about four eleven (or however many; I lost track after "many") things: Four Jobs You’ve Had In Your Life Two different categories shown here, of many: the weird and the "to be avoided at all

Give the ACLU a dope slap

2006-01-20T06:56:00.000-08:00

I just got this email from John Stephenson. Let's get with it, folks! Yesterday we announced that we would be joining Debbie Schlussel, blogger/investigative writer/lawyer as the primary intervening party against the ACLU in their case challenging the NSA. We now have more details. Every person that wants to be involved will need to email her with their address, and othe info. She will send

Stop. Look. Listen.

2006-01-20T06:04:00.000-08:00

Woody has a translation of bin Laden's real message posted. GO. READ.

Space travel, "atomic style"

2006-01-20T04:54:00.000-08:00

You have to check this out! The concept's been around for a while: throw a buncha atomic bombs out the back end and let 'em push... This puppy's "do-able" in a much nearer time frame than a test bed for a "warp drive" that's in research now. (Only real barrier? Whiny crybabies scared of the boogyman "A-Bomb".) Mars, anyone? The cat's outa the cradle over at Adam's Blog and bombshells are

Edu-rant/0PEN P0ST

2006-01-19T22:53:00.000-08:00

Note the 0PEN P0ST info below the edu-rant.Found this (just a snippet here) over at Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor. Fits well with Fred Reeed's rant posted the other day as "Enstupiated" Americans.At one time you could study to be an American, and if you adopted the American Way, which was never narrowly defined but we sort of knew what the American Way of Life was, your

Expressing "Solidarity" with N'awlins Blacks: $20

2006-01-19T10:57:00.000-08:00

Chapping the gizzards of your pseudo-liberal friends: priceless. Via Worldnet Daily Laughing myself silly (yeh, I know, I know: a superfluous redundancy) at TMH's Bacon Bits

"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet."

2006-01-19T10:22:00.000-08:00

curmudgeonly rant/ON In 1209, Arnaud-Amaury, the Abbot of Citeaux, won his place in history with a memorable quote. Referring to the people of Beziers in Southern France, he issued the edict, "Kill them all; God will know his own." Barbarous, eh? Unconscionable, right? But still historically atypical of Christianity, even of a Roman Catholicism once drunk on the Inquisition. But the strange

"Kill the innocent; save the guilty"

2006-01-19T07:58:00.000-08:00

The battle cry of socialists, soi-disant* progressives and democraps might as well be, "Kill the innocent; save the guilty."HALEIGH WANTS TO LIVETypically, those who shudder at the thought of wasting 9 months of a woman's life "unwillingly" carrying a baby to term (whether she was willing to have the sexual congress that led to her pregnancy or not) and cry us a river over the death penalty

Stop the ACLU...

2006-01-19T01:47:00.000-08:00

... v. the ACLU et al From John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU: Straight from Malkin Debbie Schlussel, blogger/investigative writer/lawyer, is extending an invitation to citizens interested in intervening in the ACLU's NSA lawsuit. She practices in Eastern Michigan, where the suit was filed. Also be sure to read Schlussel's exposé of some of the shady plaintiffs in the ACLU's suit.Stop The ACLU

"Enstupiated" Americans

2006-01-19T01:45:00.000-08:00

h.t. to Hugh, again (Man! Get yourself a blog! Tho, admittedly, I appreciate your tips, especially recently wile I've been a bit swamped :-)Fred Reed again, this time in almost perfect complement to John Stossel's "Stupid" schools program on 20/20 last Friday:"I'm going to start a rickshaw factory. It's so our kids will have a way to make a living, now that America is pulling out of the First

Taiwanese Justice

2006-01-18T13:05:00.000-08:00

h.t. Hugh, via email: "I have 3 demands or I'll kill the boy!" Click through the entire series of photos. Justice, indeed. *sigh* Here, I'm sure the American Criminal Lawyers Union would be all a-twitter, along with a sea of Mass Media Podpeople, Democrappic congresscritters (and no doubt their lapdog Republican't "me-too-ers"), a whole array of academia nuts, and all the other crybaby loony

Up the revolution! (Open Post)

2006-01-17T22:31:00.000-08:00

Nah, it's not quite time for a revolution-apart from a "revolution" at the ballot box. Visiting with an email bud/frequent commenter recently, he said something about voting for NOTA* in an upcoming election.Now, wouldn't that be a thought... what if... OK, what if somehow, someway voters could have NOTA printed underneath every set of candidates? Would NOTA be elected to a majority in Congress?

Power Oatmeal!

2006-01-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

Power Oatmeal? Yeh. Want that warm, smoothe oatmeal breakfast, but also working out and need the extra protein you get from a ham n eggs type of breakfast? Here's one solution.Oatmeal (take your pick):Oatmeal Porridge1/4C cut oats1 Qt waterpinch saltBring water to a rolling boilsprinkle the oats onto the "roll"stir wellkeep at a boil (stirring every now and then) until it

How can you tell if yogurt is spoiled?/O.P.

2006-01-17T06:03:00.000-08:00

Seriously. I found an old container of yogurt that had been shoved to the back of the fridge today. "Sell by" date was September 4, 05. Ate it. Couldn't taste anything different about it.That's the problem with yogurt. It starts out as already spoiled milk, so it's apparently the same old or new...At least it's easier to tell when an anti-war peacenik democrap "war hero" is spoiled. Yeh, right

Scotland Yard Loses Discrimination Case

2006-01-16T18:12:00.000-08:00

The "PC" world turned upside down:A BLACK police bodyguard who protected the Duchess of Cornwall has won $70,000 compensation after suing Scotland Yard for "over-promoting" him because of political correctness._1_Say again?!? He sued because he'd been "over-promoted" due to political correctness?Please, oh please: someone talk this guy into emmigrating to the U.S.hehOver-promoted at Conservative

Short Shrift Day/Open Post

2006-01-16T05:53:00.000-08:00

Open Post-hit me with your best shot. Just link to this and trackback.No time to babysit this blog today. I'll just leave you with a thought for the Guard the Borders BB: what is a country without a border?Conquered.

Tin Foil Hat Time?

2006-01-14T12:30:00.000-08:00

Or not?Thanks to The English Guy's Networks and Security blog, I did catch up-a couple of days late-on the Security Now! show where Steve Gibson revealed his research that leads him to believe that the WMF vulnerability was actually intentionally put in Windows from Win 2000 on by Microsoft or "someone at Microsoft" as a backdoor into Windows. Read the transcript or listen to the podcast via this

Last night's 20/20

2006-01-14T10:16:00.000-08:00

Alan Woody, Woody's News and Views, lists some of the high points of last night's 20/20, featuring John Stossel. What I thought particularly interesting about the program was the lacunae. Sure, in a one hour program, it would be impossible to list everything that's wrong with public education in the U.S. But surely his primary theme-choice, competition can do more for improving education than

On Being Grateful for Teddy Kennedy

2006-01-13T14:40:00.000-08:00

I am sooooo thankful for Ted Kennedy. Were it not for his assinine bloviations at the Alito sessions, this is the stupidest thing I would have seen all week... (WARNING: I am NOT responsible for any gagging, retching, seizures or any other negative consequences of you viewing the stupidest audiovisual to be released this week. Or if you click the link and see the next-most stupid thing I've seen

Let Fred annoy you. I'll wait my turn. (Hsst! Open Post!)

2006-01-12T22:55:00.000-08:00

Fred Reed often makes more sense than can be comprehended by several hundred congresscritters, academia nuts, loony left (and right) moonbats and all Mass Media Podpeople put together, working assiduously day and night...Designing We Shall Go"A few thoughts regarding the recent foolishness in the courts of Pennsylvania over Intelligent Design:A pertinent question is why the

Pathfinder's False Alarm Venison Chili

2006-01-12T19:03:00.000-08:00

For this Carnival of the Recipes potluck offering, I'm "stealing" a recipe from my brother. He makes this several times a year, often to share with hunting buddies. I've had some of this chili several times over the years, and it's always very, very good. Not at all like mine, which is just fine by me. Then again, I don't often have my hands on good venison.Pathfinder's False Alarm Venison Chili3

Let Fred annoy you. I'll wait my turn. (Hsst! Open Post!)

2006-01-12T18:54:00.000-08:00

Don't even ask. Just CLICK HERE for the post I intended to make. *sigh* So don't post trackbacks to this post. Link to this post (http://thirdworldcounty.blogspot.com/2006/01/let-fred-annoy-you-ill-wait-my-turn_13.html) and trackback (http://www.haloscan.com/tb/mnmus/113712088679136482/).

What's for lunch?

2006-01-12T09:44:00.000-08:00

Serving up... Symantec: Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers. The anti-virus vendor acknowledged that it was deliberately hiding a directory from Windows APIs as a feature to stop customers from accidentally deleting files but, prompted by warnings from

Interesting. Needs garlic.

2006-01-12T07:50:00.000-08:00

Found at Jerry Pournelle's, the "Implicit Association Test". Sadly, not unlike the MMPI and other such tests, the Racial Preference test could not categorize my responses... any of the three times I took it. Not a "no preference shown" but "could not determine". I think the idea's not bad, but it needs garlic. heh. Other tests include the Gender-Career IAT: Gender - Career. This IAT often

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