A Kerry supporter urged his local Irish Catholic priest to say in his homily that he thinks John Kerry is a saint. The priest, a profoundly religious man, said he would. That next Sunday, he began his homily as follows, “I don’t normally delve into politics, as you know. However, at the request of one of my parishioners, I would like to tell you my thoughts about John Kerry.

John Kerry is a crook. John Kerry is a liar. John Kerry is a
fraud. John Kerry is an adulterer. John Kerry is one of the worst Catholics I have ever met.

But, compared to Ted Kennedy, I think he’s a saint.”

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The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.” - John F. Kerry
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” - John F. Kerry
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.” - John F. Kerry
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments the future.” - John F. Kerry
“The future will be better tomorrow.” - John F. Kerry
“We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world.” - John F. Kerry
“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.” - John F. Kerry
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.” - John F. Kerry
“Public speaking is very easy.” - John F. Kerry
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.” - John F. Kerry
“I actually voted for the $87 billion dollars before I voted against it.” - John F. Kerry
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” - John F. Kerry
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.” - John F. Kerry
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our - John F. Kerry
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” - John F. Kerry
“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.” - John F. Kerry

Yeah, here’s John Kerry the champion of the working class.
Millionaire, his wife the billionaire, and 4 other assorted suits.
Great service, big restaurant bill, $0 tip.
I’m sure its the republican’s fault for not raising the minimum wage or some such crap.
Thanks to Andrew Ian Dodge for the heads up…

This article called “Great Hackers” brought back memories of working at Black Oak…

What do hackers want? Like all craftsmen, hackers like good tools. In fact, that’s an understatement. Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools. They’ll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure.
At a startup I once worked for, one of the things pinned up on our bulletin board was an ad from IBM. It was a picture of an AS400, and the headline read, I think, “hackers despise it.”

I know this will annoy the hell out of people, but I hated working on ASS400s. It didn’t do anything well. You either tune it for batch or interactive. Couldn’t handle both. Needed really ugly (Client Access/400) software just to connect to it. Lotus Notes on the thing was a major kludge.
But some people swore by it. For what it was supposed to do, namely be a record keeping platform, it was pretty decent. But IBM tried to make it all things to everyone, which didn’t work. Right tool, right job. Simple concept.
The article continues on to one thing that drives me crazy. Cubicles.

After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you’re a technology company, their thoughts are your product. So making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot.
The cartoon strip Dilbert has a lot to say about cubicles, and with good reason. All the hackers I know despise them. The mere prospect of being interrupted is enough to prevent hackers from working on hard problems. If you want to get real work done in an office with cubicles, you have two options: work at home, or come in early or late or on a weekend, when no one else is there. Don’t companies realize this is a sign that something is broken? An office environment is supposed to be something you work in, not something you work despite.

Working in a damn cubicle drives me crazy. The noise is so bad sometimes I have to walk outside, or hide somewhere for 10 minutes. Its the biggest corporate lie of all. Cubicles for all, it builds teamwork, and familiarity, blah blah blah. No, its because its cheaper! You don’t have to lie to people. Just say all the money saved on offices go towards salaries. At least that lie is somewhat believable.
And to those who know me. Is this me?

Because you can’t tell a great hacker except by working with him, hackers themselves can’t tell how good they are. This is true to a degree in most fields. I’ve found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent. The people I’ve met who do great work rarely think that they’re doing great work. They generally feel that they’re stupid and lazy, that their brain only works properly one day out of ten, and that it’s only a matter of time until they’re found out.

It seems like it some days… Please take a few minutes and read the article. Its good stuff if you work in or around technology types…

IHT reports that Michael Moore drops visit to Bush backyard. Of course this will be spun…

Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Farenheit 9/11″ reached President George W. Bush’s backyard Wednesday, but the filmmaker has rejected plans to go to Crawford, a one-stoplight town, to officiate.

Why not go Michael? What is the real reason you won’t go?

A spokeswoman for Moore would only confirm that the bespectacled leftist gadfly would not travel to Crawford from Boston, where he has attracted enormous media coverage this week with a fiery verbal attack on Bush and the Republicans.
“We didn’t get an explanation. It’s a little disappointing but not unexpected after all the back and forth we’ve had on it. But we’ll still have a good evening,” said local organizer Skip Londos.

All the back and forth on it? Wait a minute… lets see… MM is in Boston… with John Kerry… run away! Waffling is contagious!

Photo Buster is a website that sells those diffraction grating lens sheets that go over your license plates. This keeps the photo radar setups from getting a clear picture of your license plate. Note that its illegal in some areas to use this stuff, but worth checking out if your municipality is using these revenue generating methods…

Maybe this is a translation error, but its rather amusing. Xinhuanet reports-

BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhuanet) — A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only, like humans, after a near death experience.
Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, was diagnosed with severe stomach flu with three other monkeys and slipped into critical condition two weeks ago. CRIENGLISH.com reported Thursday.
After intensive treatment, her condition stabilized. But to everyone’s surprise, when she was released from the clinic, she began walking upright like a human.
Her veterinarian says the only possible explanation is that the monkey suffered brain damage from the illness.

So, us humans only walk upright because of brain damage? Thats great stuff…
Whoops, time to do my manager’s evaluation. He walks upright too! I’ll be sure to add “possible brain damage” to that comments field…

On VOANews.com

Singer Linda Ronstadt hit a sour note with her audience at a Las Vegas hotel last weekend when she praised the controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticizes President Bush.
Many of the 4,500 in attendance booed Ms. Ronstadt when she dedicated the song “Desperado” to the film’s creator, Michael Moore. Some of them tossed their drinks in the air, walked out and even tore down concert posters.
After the performance, officials of the Aladdin Hotel escorted Ms. Ronstadt off the property and said she is no longer welcome to perform there.

Of course, Michael Moore flipped out, demanding she be re-hired, first amendment, blah blah blah, burp, gimme another donut, etc.
This is so horrible… wait a second, whats this last line in the story?

Before the concert, Ms. Ronstadt told a local newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal that she hoped if she was annoying enough, the hotel would not hire her back.

Changes everything.

Here’s the press release on my software. Woo hoo…
PRESS RELEASE: Digital Labs, LLC releases WiSSH - Windows over SSH, a Remote Access Client
Give it a look, check it out along with our other offerings from Digital Labs… Sure its marketing, but its my website!

CNet has this article talking about how good the new voice over IP phones are. A few people here at the office have it and like it, but there are valid limitations. However, this dumbass quote isn’t one of them:

Also, there’s still no way to guarantee VoIP phones will work when power is lost, and not all VoIP providers offer 911 service.
During a power outage, a VoIP phone is only as good as any battery backups on hand, because delivering power through the broadband connection isn’t possible on a wide commercial basis. An emerging alternative broadband-delivery technique, broadband over power line, will solve this problem, but wide deployment is years away.

So let me get this straight. Broadband over power lines will give you your fast internet connection, all on the same lines that you get your electricity from. Fine and dandy, except for the massive interference it has been shown to cause to radio operators, so it may not be approved.
But more importantly, this reporter believes that in the event of a power outage, not only will the internet still flow through your power lines, but you will still get electricity through your power lines, to power your internet connection, all during a power outage!
Now that is a great improvement in technology there! Next, they’re going to invent how to do all this, getting power and internet, with no wires at all!!!

Is there any doubt that the media and hollywood are left wing propaganda machines?

The television academy thumbed its nose at the GOP this morning, showering “The Reagans” — the TV movie the party tried to censor — with seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations. That includes acting nominations for Judy Davis, who played Nancy Reagan in the movie, for James Brolin as Ronald Reagan, as well as nominations for best writing and best telefilm.
In another nod to the Reagan administration, “Angels in America,” HBO’s miniseries adapted from Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about New Yorkers affected by the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, bagged a leading 21 Emmy nominations — still no challenge to the most nominated miniseries in Emmy history, ABC’s 1970’s broadcast of “Roots.”

Just like the palmd’crap that MM won. The elite shows its disdain for everyone else.

Brand Republic runs a story about a F911 clone being aimed at Fox News. Just late last night I was talking about Fox and how it is the closest thing to truly fair and balanced.
So MoveOn attack chinchillas have released another “documentary” that exposes Fox as a Republican machine. They come up with such blockbusters:

One example, in a memo written by John Moody, senior vice-president at Fox News in April, at the height of the insurgency in Fallujah, said: “Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives and asking out loud why we are there?”

To me, this reinforces fair and balanced. Repeat after me, NEWS IS NOT COMMENTARY. This quote is keeping it to the facts.
Of course, this “movie” that is only available for download was created by the far left, and will be seen by the far left. They themselves are so fair and balanced that they won’t even ask Fox for a quote to use in the movie, let alone ask them about using copyright material that they are stealing to use in the film.

Orson Scott Card, of sci-fi fame, has an opinion piece about Fox News. He goes into detail about how deaf, dumb, and blind the liberal media establishment is. He uses detailed analysis of several news stories picked at random from a random newspaper. And shows how biased the stories are towards the left. One example:

In a story on Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks to the graduating class at West Point, here is the lead paragraph: “Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making no mention of the prisoner abuse scandal that has led to calls for his ouster, told a cheering crowd of graduating cadets Saturday that they will help win the global fight against terror.”

Whats the bias in that? Well, compare that to this hypothetical lead item:

“Senator Hillary Clinton, making no mention of the $100,000 she once made by trading cattle futures with astonishing perfection, told a cheering crowd of activists that President Bush’s globalist economic policy is hurting poor people in other countries and costing American jobs.”

This story would never ever appear in any paper. But it has exactly the same construction as the first lead. While technically true, the initial story could have read, “Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making no mention of the super serum formula that created Captain America, told a cheering crowd of graduating cadets Saturday that they will help win the global fight against terror.” This would also be technically true. And while my example is ridiculous, at least I admit that it is irrelevant.
I think they key indicator that Fox News truly is closest to the center is that they will run more stories. Items that the mainline media would ignore because they may be damaging to the left are completely ignored by CNN, but ran by Fox. However any story that is potentially influential towards leftist politics is picked up everywhere, including Fox.
Thats just the way it is. Read the article. Facts are hard to deny, unless you’re deaf, dumb, and blind. Like the media.
Thanks to VodkaPundit for finding this story!

I have been drinking coffee since I was six months old. Yes, six months old! My grandmother watched me during the week while my dad was in the service and my mom was working. She would give me diluted coffee throughout the day, stop around 3-4 pm, and by 8pm I fell into a nice sound sleep. Woke up the next morning, repeat.
My parents never really found out why I was so damn cranky on weekends. I just needed my fix, thats all. How many middle school kids started off the morning with a cup of joe? Not many I’ll bet. Especially now, I’m waiting for the crusaders for children to start cracking down, and making Folgers rated R.
So, what is latte? I really have no idea.
I know expresso is expensive burnt beans in a small cup. I’ve had it, its good, but not worth the effort.
All over TV is iced latte commercials. And I have never had any. From what I gather it is something pooftahs and pretentious people drink. The kind of thing that could taste extremely nasty, but you sound cool when you order it.
Yeah right. How man people are still impressed by the pretentious? Seinfeld is in re-runs. Clinton is out of office. All the whiney bastard musicians killed themselves long ago. This is the decade of real men, and real coffee.

Thats what it is around northern Delaware today. Blech.. you’re not missing anything.
So, what exactly is worse? People who drive slow in the left lane in traffic but know its wrong, or people who drive too slow in the left lane that have no idea what they are doing is in any way incorrect?
Scott is catching a bit of flack over at the Razor about a post he wrote. He is breaking a story about a “teacher” who threatened to send a student to the principal’s office. A second grader. Because he wrote an essay about wanting to be a warrior like his grandfather.
If I was the grandfather, I’d kick her ass. Right in front of the students.
Anyways, most bloggers get their info from the mass media, but in this case, Scott knows the family involved, his own child goes to the same school, etc. Give him a break… Scott knows what he’s doing…

Pete Townsend has always been my favorite late 60’s rock musician. Now I know why:

“Michael Moore has been making some claims, using my name, which distort the truth.
“I greatly resent being bullied and slurred by him just because he didn’t get what we wanted from me. It seems to me that this aspect of his nature is not unlike that of the powerful and willful man at the centre of his documentary.
“He says that I refused to allow him to use my song Won’t Get Fooled Again in his latest film because I support the war. I have never hidden the fact that at the beginning of the war in Iraq, I was a supporter. But now I am less sure we did the right thing.
“I had not really been convinced by Bowling For Columbine and had been worried about its accuracy. To me, it felt like a bullying film. Once I had an idea what Fahrenheit 9/11 was about, I was 90 per cent certain my song was not right for them and pointed out that Won’t Get Fooled Again is not an unconditionally anti-war song.”

I even like his taste in movies: Townshend refused to let the Oscar-winning director use the song, because the rocker didn’t enjoy Moore’s previous films Bowling for Columbine and Roger and Me.
So, because Pete didn’t roll over and give Moore all he wanted, he’s now an enemy. I am waiting for Moore’s war room to start the attacks, saying Pete didn’t write the songs, that Michael did, while he was the King of Englanders back then. Well, he won’t exactly say he was King, he will just insinuate it, play some creepy music, and then move on to his next non-point.

Hope she doesn’t get stuck.

Is it possible for Denzel Washington to NOT play the same character over and over and over and over and over and over again?
From what the commercials look like, he is playing the same character he always has in every movie I’ve seen with him. Crimson Tide, Philadelphia, Courage Under Fire, The Seige, etc.
Always fighting The Man in the most self righteous way possible.
It gets very old. Show some range dude….

This has to be a camera trick!

Over at Right Thinking from the Left Coast they’re discussing John Kerry.

You may disagree with his politics, but to say he is anything other than a patriot is an insult to all veterans.
Bull fuckin’ shit! Have you heard what he accused our soldiers of doing in a VERY public way? Do you know what he did when he returned home from Vietnam?

I really have to agree here. The left has so completely redefined the word “Patriot” so that it includes anyone who takes advantage of the freedoms in the US. “I’m a patriot because I used my right to free speech,” is often heard over and over again. It is insulting to the people who actually make sacrifices to support our country. See, thats the difference. The liberal left in this country do not believe in personal sacrifice. They only believe in making others sacrifice what they have.
That is such a load of crap. Benedict Arnold fought bravely for the US. And then he became a traitor by selling out to the British. Does this make him a patriot? I hope that is not included in anyone’s definition.
John Kerry fought for our country. That makes him a patriot at that time. Just like Benedict Arnold. He came back, and promptly lost his patriot status because of what he chose to do.
Why is it so hard for people to understand timelines, and that things can change? People change. While what happens in the past can make up a part of who you are, that can mean for good or bad. So many people have used their military training to become pathological killers. Very few people start out life as pure evil, my wife’s “mother” being an exception. But the good and the bad things people do over time cancel each other out, and you are left with the end result.
Now, I am a veteran, and I feel that John Kerry is the insult to all of us. He fought bravely beside us, and then went back home and plunged the knife into our backs with the Winter Soldier investigation and all the other activities. What he accomplished in VietNam was completely negated by what he did when he got back.

“He’s such a good boy!” - comment heard right before a young man is sentenced to 30 years for murder and rape. In that order. Guess what? He’s no longer a good boy!

This is pretty cool. ’nuff said. Thanks to Philblog.