How Superman Died

Playing us like cheap violins

The Coming Bait and Switch

In a classic bait-&-switch, the sucker is lured in with the promise of gold which will ultimately be substituted for with lead.  In the Democrat's Health Care version, they point a gun at us victims while purchasing sheep's offal with our credit card. Adding insult to that injury, they then plan to switch that tripe for some Nancy Pelosi yeast infected vaginal discharge. Afterward, they'll expect praise and a raise. Here's the plan. “ A statement from Sen. McConnell on the CBO's report on the Finance Committee bill:     “This partisan Finance Committee proposal will never see the Senate floor since the real bill will be written by Democrat leaders in a closed-to-the-public conference room somewhere in the Capitol. The real bill will be another 1,000-page, trillion-dollar experiment that slashes a half-trillion dollars from seniors’ Medicare, raises taxes on American families by $400 billion, increases health care premiums, and vastly expands the role of the federal government in the personal health care decisions of every American.” The "real bill" is the actual legislative language that will be signed into law (if it passes); the Finance Committee will vote on a bill written in "conceptual language." As Mary Katharine writes below, the report states that "The Chairman’s mark, as amended, has not yet been converted into legislative language. The review of such language could lead to significant changes in the estimates of the proposal’s effects on the federal budget and insurance coverage." ” Time for some smiting here boss, wot?

Ford Original (1 of 4)

What a Steel!

1936 Ford Tudor

Unplugged Rollover Unplugged Rollover “    This is the 1936 Ford Tudor Sedan built for and owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel.  This is 1 of only 4 in existence and is the only one currently in running & in road worthy condition. The car     is in exceptional condition, with the interior and the body looking great.  All 4 cars had over 200,000 miles on them before they removed them from service.      These cars were built for Allegheny as promotional and marketing projects.  The top salesmen each year were given the honor of being able to drive them for one year.  The V-8 engine (max 85 hp) ran like a sewing machine and was surprisingly smooth and quiet. The car was insured (we were told) for the trip to Louisville via covered trailer for 1.5 million dollars.     We were also told that the dies were ruined , making these the only cars like this ever produced. [R.W. Forsythe] ”

Today's Quiz

missed # 27, and #29

“ Supposedly 96% of all High School Seniors FAILED this test... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+% of all individuals over 50 did too!! Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know. - Merrily ”

93% ain't bad, except I bet myself a billion dollars I'd ace it.  So, on the one hand I'm now rich, but the other hand took it all so .. . wait!  JFC.  Either way I'm a freaking billionaire!!   Them's Adam Smith's fabled "invisible hands" at work.. Must be.  Now where the hell did I put all that money?!?

Annoying thing # 152

Avast Ye Bloody Popups

Avast! message popups driving you nuts?

I use Avast! anti-virus (free basic version), and it can't be beat.  Except.  Twice a day a popup window announces there are updates available. In auto update, or manual mode another popup says "Downloading Updates.  Then, another Popup announces  "Updates Installed"  Why am I saying all this?   If you use Avast! you know what I mean; if you don't, you left already. Anyway, when it happened the second time today I flipped out. Either I stop them, or I'm unloading Avast! and finding something else.  After spending about 30 minutes reading Googled gripes with no solution, I found it.  It has to be new dammit, cause I spent an hour on this before.  Anyway, here it is.  Right click avast  ... left click ...  -->program settings -->Update (basic) -->  Details The default update interval was 240 minutes.  I changed it to 4320 minutes (every third day).  Tick silent running mode, and untick everything else (I did allow for reboot message).  You're welcome.

Advantage in the tall grass

Green Ball

now even I'm starting to feel bad for the guy Linda SoG

Last word on Renewal

Epilogue

When boners came easily Years ago I read a book about a family who pulled up stakes to sail to the North Pole, or thereabouts,  and live for a year on the family 35 foot boat. The kids would be schooled by mom, and nature. The father made a conscious decision not to take a marine radio  because, he figured, knowing they had that crutch would render them subconsciously careless. My crutch on this adventure was  DriveImage XML V2.12, certainly one of the top ten free utilities of all time. Because I could restore  any damned thing I wanted,  I failed to make provision for saving things like bookmarks, history, add-ons etc.. Well, I can, but first I have to find the right things in the maze of Mozilla's maze of profiles, blah- blah-blah.  I's daunting. So, tonight I'll prolly restore the old, bloated  waiting-for-disaster  system I'm as least comfortable with.   What I accomplished by spending all yesterday reinstalling Windows. Since I wiped the disk, I have a very clean system I was able to install service pack 3, something I couldn't do before (for some unknown reason) During the hours of waiting for updates to finish  I: Watched 5 Mad Men episodes (I'm hooked) Watched the Curb Enthusiasm  Seinfeld episode.  Clap-clap-clap Watched the first episode of Dexter (HFS!!)  My daughter suggested it.  I expected a comedy. HFS-not.  (She suggested I not  watch a single episode from season 2, which stunk, but season 3 is great). I washed the dishes (MoSop away, day  5) Changed my underpants What I lost in the process: My affable fun loving demeanor 15 hours of my life Years of tweaks, gizmos, and gewgaws that made life easier. My sound (as in the sound stopped working after a Microsoft sound driver update caused a "near fatal error." Even though I rolled back the update and reinstalled the Sound Blaster software, still no sound. My mind, my boner. . On the plus side, the chap I bought the new software from agreed to refund my $50.  How cool is that?  I was hopeful that after jumping through all of Microsoft's hoops I'd  be able to load Media Player 11.  Nu uh.. Without it, I lose most of my multimedia software that is now dependent on it being there.    My late F-I-L griped until the day he died that he was a Social Security "notch baby"  Well,  I'm a Media Center Edition 2002 notch baby.  I've also put off doing so many things in real life that I don't know where to begin with those.  Time for some whiskey.

13 hours for this?

1000 Words

Eat Me Microsoft

I've been installing XP Service Pack 3

for 3 hours

Geronimo

Bombs Away  I'm in the proper mood to wipe my disk clean and start over, so here we go.  I need a new start.

SNL takedown

Obama's Post Olympic Address

SNL

Microsoft

Buggers

I purchased this HP windows XP media center 2005 software to solve the problem I have with the 2002 software on my HP-874n machine. It no longer supports any software that requires Media Player 11, which is damned near everything.  It came today, and when I went to install it I got the message that "this software will not work in your machine. "  JFC. The software says it's for HP Computers, and I have an HP computer.  Anybody know a work around?

Kung Foo Momma

Michelle Bachman- ACORN

So you thought ACORN was defunded?

Wrong, Obama breath

Quail Shoot

Hunting with Gramps

Me and Gramps, having milked the cow, headed out to the woods behind the barn for our daily quick morning hunt before he went to work at the coal mine.  I knew when it was time to go back because, even before gramma rang the dinner bell, I could smell the eggs frying.  Isn't that odd?  Not the bacon, but the eggs.  I had the 12 ga. shotgun.  I was 9 or 10.  As we navigated our way through (me) and over (him) the barbed wire fence,  a covey of quail took off.  If you've heard the sound, you know how startling it is. Still half under the barbed wire, I wheeled to take a shot at the birds and only Providence kept me from blowing grampa's head off. While I'd been schooled by him about never pointing a gun at anything I didn't want to kill, there had been no elaboration on how accidents happen.  That was the  elaboration. He knew it, and never said a another word, and I've never ever forgotten it where guns are involved.  My mind winces every time I think about it.   Cool guy my Grampa. Wow, he is getting younger looking every day. Gramps and Gramma (holding her first grandson)

Where we were

Where we were four years ago today

Wednesday, October 05, 2005 “ Today's idiot ... but there may be more. Uber nincompoop Jeffery Feiger, erstwhile lawyer for Dr. Death (Jack Kevorkian), and one-time Michigan gubernatorial  candidate, just now dumped  these pearls on an unsuspecting  Fox & Friends audience. "Contrary to popular belief, David Souter is not a liberal.  He's just makes up his own mind on issues ." "You don't have to be judge to be named to the Supreme Court, but you do have to be a lawyer." Feiger discussed an "ideologue's sphere of influence" on the SCOTUS, and identified said sphere as Justices Thomas, and Scalia, which accounts for Feiger's notion that Souter is a mainstream thinker.  On the second point, Feiger is plain ignorant. There is no such requirement.  F- ”

Rule by a madman

In passing

Stuff that gave me pause

“ The end of the Chicago handgun ban We'll see.  But it's disturbing that the SCOTUS is even entertaining the notion that state law can abridge the Constitution.   I mean, WTF? Can Guys Get Yeast Infections? Years of developing a tolerance for cottage cheese went down the drain finding out, but yes. The diminishing power of the other O She's already off MoSup's TIVO New Republic Editor-In-Chief: 'President Is Probably a Clinical Narcissist' While the New York Times house "conservative," David Brooks, continues to shower love upon President Barack Obama, editor-in-chief Marty Peretz of the liberal New Republic has become highly critical of The One. The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams TIME magazine's Joel Stein bemoans that The Him doesn't understand he's a dictator. Instead of ignoring people's objections until they get socialized medicine and realize they like it, as England's leaders did, Obama is worried about seducing Olympia Snowe so he can say his health bill is bipartisan. State-Run Media Prepares Country For Obama's Potential Surrender in Afghanistan What happens when an unhinged clinical narcissist steers the boat. Consumer Reports Tosses Political Neutrality Away With Pro ObamaCare Ad I haven't trusted CR since they downgraded lawnmowers that didn't stop if  the user put a running machine on his head.  ”

Erotic Dots

Horry clap!

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