The Automotive Bailouts: The Other Side of the Story

I have been sitting here, trying to keep out of this. But I have sat and looked at the Republican and NeoConservative Spin on this Story and I’m sick of it. 😡

So, I am giving you, the other side of the story, from the horses mouth; without commentary from me.

I did not ask that you agree, I simply ask that you listen and hear this man out. Now I am almost sure, that the Blogs, that I have linked to, will remove my trackback, like the Neo-Con Fascists that they are. I mean, it is all about controlling the message with those guys.  🙄

Here we go:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Media Q & A:

Media Q & A Part 2:

Media Q & A Part 3:

There you have it. The other side of the story. You decide.

(Source UAW.ORG)

WordPress 2.7 has arrived!

I’ve been beta testing this new version for a while. It’s finally here, WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” has arrived.

Here’s a sneak peek at all the nifty new stuff:

My biggest memory was ftp’ing the new version to the server and getting the dreaded “Internal Server Error” and not having and clue as to why. Finally, I figured it out. There was a hack for PHP.INI in my public_html directory that was supposed to jack up the memory limit, the new version already had a high memory limit. I removed it and it worked fine. I was really sweating. But, It worked, once I figured out what the heck I was doing wrong.

The new version is so awesome, I personally recommend that you upgrade. Just be damned sure you’re not trying to heck PHP.INI at all. Otherwise you’ll end up with the dreaded issue like I did. 🙄

More info on WordPress 2.7 Here, Here and if you happen to run into snag, you can go here.

Blogs Old Hat?

Apparently. At least that’s what the geeks over at wired are saying.

What I really want to know is. How in the hell did they get that bird to sit on that monitor, and better yet, how the hell did they get that crazy color dye on that bird, without killing it or getting killed themselves?!?!?

Update: ….and for whatever it is worth, I happen to think that Twitter sucks. See here for details.

(Thanks Glenn)

BUSTED!

Oh Man, this is too funny!

Obama’s Speechwriter got busted…..on Facebook!

On Left Obama Speech Writer Jon Favreau

On Left Obama Speech Writer Jon Favreau

Question No. 58 in the transition team vetting document for the Obama White House asks that applicants: “Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g. Facebook, My Space, etc.)”

Question No. 63 asks that applicants “please provide any other information … that could … be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect.”

For a while there this afternoon, President-elect Barack Obama’s immensely talented chief speechwriter, 27-year-old Jon Favreau, might have been pondering how to address that question.

That’s when some interesting photos of a recent party he attended — including one where he’s dancing with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of secretary of state-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and another where he’s placed his hand on the cardboard former first lady’s chest while a friend is offering her lips a beer — popped up on Facebook for about two hours. The photos were quickly taken down — along with every other photo Favreau had of himself on the popular social networking site, save for one profile headshot.

Asked about the photos, Favreau, who was recently appointed director of speechwriting for the White House, declined comment. A transition official said that Favreau had “reached out to Senator Clinton to offer an apology.”

Favreau is not the first campaign aide whose online presence has proved awkward. Last March, John McCain aide Soren Dayton forwarded an anti-Obama YouTube video to his private Twitter feed linking Obama with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, leading to his suspension from the campaign. And in 2007, two bloggers hired by former North Carolina senator John Edwards stepped down after blog posts they had written before he hired them became a subject of controversy.

Favreau’s case seems unlikely to be so dire; Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines cast the photos as evidence of increased bonhomie between the formerly rival camps.

“Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon’s obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application,” he said in an e-mail.

ROFLMAO! 😆 I bet they are reviewing his application! 😀 HA!

Yes They can! Yes they did! and… Yes, they got caught! 😆

Never, never, never, post stuff on facebook that you do not want coming back to hunt you!

Others: New York Times, The Swamp, Weekly Standard, Anne Schroeder’s Blogs, Right Wing News and RedState

Memeoramdum Sucks

That’s right, I said it.

Memeorandum got a mention on a U.K. News Blog.

Big fucking deal.

Why do I think that it sucks?

Well, for starters, there is just enough Conservative Blogs on there to keep the Conservatives from bitching about it.

The truth is the only blogs that get on that stupid service are new Blogs or those that get more than 5K hits a day, if you’re between those two groups, you’re basically fucking ignored.

Also, the damn service is ran by a San Francisco Liberal. He tries very hard to hide his bias. But if you’re smart and have the right tools, you can see the fucking bias. He does not fool me at all.

I use it, sparingly anymore. I sign up for RSS feeds, both Conservative and Liberal and Blog about what I see there. I don’t follow the herd anymore, if I get on that… whatever the fuck it is… service, fine, if I don’t, my life does not end.

Honestly, there is more to life that being the star of the show on some sobbish Meme Tag scanner.

List of Bloggers who are licking Gabe Riviera’ s rather large liberal asshole: Buck Naked Politics, Outside The Beltway and The Other McCain, The Moderate Voice, The Impolitic

Important Announcement From the Blogs 4 Borders Crew!

Jake Delivers a sobering announcement about the Blogs 4 Borders BlogBurst. 🙁

….and here I am unemployed and cannot help. 😥

If you want to help Jake get his show on the road, click here to send him a message. Or go to his YouTube site and leave him a message there.

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Live Blogging the Election, On Twitter

I will be live Blogging my reactions, feelings and just overall being a smart mouth on twitter.

You can follow me, by going to my twitter page, by going here.

I will also post things of interest here, throughout the evening.

Ooops!

Your Host earlier

your host earlier

You might have noticed that the Blog went away for a little bit earlier.

No, Liberals did not hack into the Blog.

Yours truly attempted to download and install a beta version of WordPress. The install went fine. it was when I opened my Blog in a browser, I got the dreaded 500 error, which is an internal server error! Yikes! 😮 😯

I think it had something to do with a file in my host directory being not writable or something.

Luckily for me, I did a FULL system back up of my current install. Whew! I didn’t lose anything, at all, this time.

Anyhow, I think I’ll do what everyone else does, wait till the damn general release comes out, THEN I’ll play with it! 🙄

Anyone got a dunce cap, that I can barrow? Anyone?

Update: Oy, I even tried a second time. I dunno what the hell is wrong. I tried asking over in the Wp-Testers and best they could do is suggest commenting out some code in the new version. So, I said, “Fuck it!” and ended up doing a reinstall from Fantasico and upgraded back to 2.6.3. Needless, to say, I don’t agree well with Beta versions. Arrrgh! It’s enough to make me want to Punch a damn hippie! 😡 Needless to say, no more filly fartin’ around with the blog! Back to blogging! 😀

My video to Scribefire tech support

Before someone else finds it and I become the next new big thing…

It’s a video of me, trying to explain to Scribefire Tech Support, that their program is not working properly. As you can see, I’m not the greatest video director in the world. The video was shot on a Kodak EasyShare C613

Hey, it’s not Pajama’s Media, but it’s a start. I think. Tongue 

Cool new program

It’s not everyday that I try stuff that other people recommend. But in this case. I made an exception.

Captain Ed over at Hotair.com reported that there is a nice RSS reader out called RSSOwl. Now, most RSS readers that I have tried, I’ve ended up tossing, usually because the idiot that designed it, usually did not have people like me in mind. Well, it seems someone out there had bloggers like me in mind. (for a change!)

The reason I grabbed it. Is because iGoogle recently turned into a big smelly bucket of SUCK! In English, that means that they redesigned it, and I hated it.Sick (Hee hee)

Anyhow, so, if you’re a RSS reading maniac like me. Give RSSOwl a whirl.

Now, because I’m honest. I’ll give you the stuff that I don’t like about it. It has no installer. You pick where you want to run it and it goes there. Some people need installers. I don’t, but some do.

Other than that. It’s a great program. Big Grin

I can guess that you know what I’m up to here for a little while. moving RSS feeds from iGoogle to this RSS reader. It’s not hard, just time consuming! Waiting

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iGoogle Changes Design and your host is NOT happy about it.

Why do people have to dink around with stuff that works fine the way that it is? I dont know

I happen to be a very big user and fan of iGoogle which is basically a place where you can drag in RSS feeds from all over the place and put them in one spot and categorize them.

I happened to click over on it today and they changed the design of iGoogle.

…..and I HATE it! Angry

As in, when I first saw it, I seriously thought my damn browser was messed up!

As in, that I hate this damn redesign with the hottest fires in the Devil’s HELL kind of hating it! AngryDevilAt wits end

Sure enough, I was over looking at the official Google Blog and sure enough, they’ve been messing around with it.

The tab on the left, Awful! now, when you click on a story in that tab, you get a full display of that feed, it looks like Google reader, and I HATE GOOGLE READER! This is why I don’t use it!

So, the message to the guys at iGoogle is this; Gents, your design looks like SHIT! Please, either revert to the old design and come up with something better or something, please! This new SHIT SUCKS DONKEYBALLS! Move the damn tabs BACK TO THE TOP! Make where you can have multi-layers of tabs, Sheesh! How the fuck hard is that?!?!?!

Another Drop the fucking Google reader look, the old look was SO MUCH BETTER!

That is all! ARRGH! AngryAt wits end I hate when people mess up stuff in the name of PROGRESS! Angry

Yes, I know about the Sarah Palin e-mail scandal

Yes, I know about the email story. No, I’m not quoting it or putting any of those pictures here. As it might cross into legal issues, and quite frankly, jail sucks.

There’s a little funny story behind my finding out about it.

As a Blogged about earlier, I had to attend a memorial service for my Dad’s Sister, who died on Sept 10.

Well, that few hours, turned into about a 5 hour event and seeing I was living on about 4 hours sleep, from like the previous evening. I was dog tired.  Hell, if someone would have told me that the Russians were firing nukes at the United States, I would have most likely have told them, that as long as they didn’t land in my bedroom, I didn’t honestly give two flips, as I was tired and going to sleep. Needless to say, my bed was looking mighty fine by the time I made it back home.

Anyhow, I finally awoke from my slumber around 7:30, Hell, I slept through a Pizza delivery. I never sleep through a pizza delivery, ever.

So, anyhow, I woke up, put my glasses on, and got my pizza slices out of the microwave, and I took a bite and opened my news source and this story was the headliner. I nearly choked on my pizza! 😯 😮

Now I said all that to say all this. My reaction to this story is….. Well, basically, Yawn and if you’re a big time Government person like Palin, Why the hell would you use a web e-mail service like yahoo anyhow? That just doesn’t strike me as very smart at all.

I mean, The Republicans are trying to run this narrative that they’re so much better than the Democrats. Needless to say, this is not helping further that narrative at all.

You can follow the story and see the opinions at Memeornadum and TechMeMe. Me? I’m going back to bed. I need more sleep. 😛

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Powerful Video

I do wonder if the Obama campaign has seen this or not.

(H/T to Blogwonks)

…..However, I will be fair enough to point out the mistakes.

The Bush Administration admitted that the intelligence that the Bush Administration had, in the leading up to the war, was flat out wrong. Not to mention the “Cherry picking” and stifling of evidence and contrary opinion that surfaced during the lead up the war. Which, in the opinion of this writer, is nothing more than abject fascism.

While I am smart enough to know that this video was not made by the McCain campaign. It does ring at the certain heart string of the American people. However, factually this video falls on it’s face. I agree that the men and women who died in this war, did so believing that they were doing the right thing. However, it does not excuse the fact that mistakes were made. Further more, this video comes across as using our United States Military as some sort of political prop. Which I feel is absolutely sickening.

While this video may be powerful in image and in message. I believe it is a brazen attempt to smear Obama as unpatriotic and inferring that Obama hates our Military persons. That, I am afraid is a bogus lie. I assure you, that if Obama was as nearly as uncaring of our Military personnel as this video infers, he would not even be in the race at all. Because middle America would have never elected him the early primary, if he would have come off as uncaring towards our Military in the primary.

I just do not believe that people are going to buy the subtle message being inferred in this ad, at all. Perhaps in 2004, or even in 2000. But not this time. The country has shifted too much to the left. This because of the many scandals, missteps, and outright blunders by the Government in the last 8 years.

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Bob Barr, The Right Choice for America…..

Bob Barr For President 2008

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Gabe Rivera’s “Memeorandum” throws Political Byline under the bus….

Yep, it’s official, Memeorandum has removed me, again, from the list of cool blogs.

Ah Well, it was fun while it lasted. I just could not keep up with the pace. I’m just not a early morning person.

It brought some hits, but not as many as one would think.

So, I’m back to the massive sea of uncool, unseen blogs. 🙁

Such as life. 😀

A movie that every American should watch, before voting

(H/T to AP at Hotair.com)

This movie, if it caught on in the Media would ruin Obama’s chances of being elected President.

Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:

Wow…. I don’t think Barry will have to worry about snipers. He’d better worry about this movie.

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You know you’re damn good Blogger

When Vanity fair writes snarky articles about you.

Seriously, I hope Jeff is not serious about going away. I mean, we conservative Bloggers, in our various forms are quite the thin breed.

For the bloody damned record, I like Jeff’s Blog. I’ve always enjoyed Protein Wisdom’s roughshod style of Conservative writing. (Except maybe when it was directed at me… 🙄 ) While I don’t peek over there daily, I do like to read his and his co-Bloggers take of stories in the headlines. It makes for a complete conversation. A Political conversation without completness is just fucking boring.

Yeah, I admit it, I’ve gotten my share of shit from Jeff and his group of writers over there, especially back in the “The Populist” days. Fuck, some of it, I had coming, some of it bordered on criminal, but I did survive. I also learned some lessons about Liberals, the cowardly bastards that they are. Socialists for all their bravado, when the rubber meets the road and one of their “supposed” own is in trouble, are very much the cowardly bunch. Fucking bastards. I also learned that Blog wars are quite silly, especially ones of your making.

I also learned some hard lessons in Blogging, never make stupid assed comments, unless you know ALL the facts, sometimes trying to channel Ann Coulter is not always the cool thing to do. Because done the wrong way, can make you look like a complete asshat.

I do truly hope that Jeff is able to resolve his internal conflicts and is able to continue. I mean, after all the shit that he has been through in the past. It would just seem to me to be a bit wasteful to just throw in the towel, because of some douche-bag guest blogger decided to act like some sort of a tool.

So, Jeff, if you happen to read this, ya fucking tool, turn your god damned sitemeter back on, and get your sorry ass back to blogging, because I’ll be fucking damned, if I’m going to be the only mother fucker outside of Malkin defending the damn shop. That’s an order!

I mean, seriously, What the fuck? Is blogging dying or something? First it’s Ed Morrissey going to HotAir, Middle Earth Journal stops Blogging, and now this? Is this a trend? fucking aye already!

Others:
The Other McCain, TBogg, protein wisdom, The Art of the Possible and Bloggasm

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From the “AMEN!” Corner: Social Bookmarking

Quite the awesome quote and thought….

Social Bookmarking: The Race to Be Famous or a Tool?

Let me be blunt. Social bookmarking does have a few values in my eyes. Past that, it moves quickly into wasted time.

Amen! Not to mention sites like digg can crash a website or Blog, if you do not have the correct tools to combat the rush of traffic.

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