Be safe, but do have fun.. Happy Halloween ya’all! PLEASE Share what you enjoy doing to celebrate this fun holiday!

OK since i ranted about 1-800 pet meds it is only fair I beat up on another company.. share the wealth ya’know.. (more…)

1-800 pet meds.. ok really this commercial should and needs to be done better..

the idea of having your pets meds delivered is fine, it is a good nice thing.. BUT the commercial has these pet owners whining about hauling their pet to the vet for the meds..

OK.. now really, you DO need to take your pet to the vet for evaluations, check ups etc.. to make sure all is good, healthy, and the meds are still good for your pet..

This commercial just irks the heck out of me.. OK how many times do you NEED to take your pet to the vet, twice a year on a normal basis at most.. so sheesh anyone who thinks this is a major ordeal needs to rethink whether THEY deserve to have this pet in their home.. because i highly doubt they do deserve such an honor as a pet’s love!

BUT you DON’T Have to haul your pet in for refills in between visits.. so really, please 1-800 pet meds rethink your strategy!

Run Wordpress? Sick of spam comments? Yeah, who isn’t.
The last few hours this site was targeted, getting several comments every few minutes. I had moderation turned on, so none ever showed up, but its still a pain to process.
So thank you Fahim Farook for the WP blacklist plugin. Works great, and is a must have for all.
Next, do the following:
Rename wp-comments-post.php to something else, and change the reference in wp-comments.php to match it. Then create a blank file called wp-comments-post.php so the spammers won’t get a 404 error. Fixes about 80% of the inbound spam, so you don’t even know it is happening. The automated spamming tools just post directly to wp-comments-post.php
Finally, if you want to go hardcore, add this to a .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} "!^http://www.your_domain_here.com/.*$" [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} “.*wp-comments-post.php$”
RewriteRule .* - [F]
This will not let anyone post a comment directly without being referred from a page on your site. Please not that this will break a small percentage of browsers, so be careful. See the WordPress wiki for more info…

There is more to the political circus then just the candidates.. there is some demented form of party brainwashing too.. which comes from the liberal/democrat side.. (more…)

Did it die? Where did it go? What ever happened to having respect for other people?? How about just common decency? (more…)

Ok just had to toss in some silliness. Ok my whole life I was always baffled to hear (Charles Schultz creation) Snoopy was a Beagle..

So tell me…

Snoopy had to have been a border collie, they just were not sure of what the breed was back then. (Snoopy has been around for 50+ years, bringing him back to the very end of 1940’s)

Think about it.. what would a beagle do with a bird? Chomp on its neck and bring the bird to its owner, beagles are hound/hunting dogs, that is a normal behavior for them. A border collie would observe, herd and or be buddies with the bird. (think about the camping trips Snoopy & the woodstock clan would do.. Snoopy was surely herding the troop).

Feeding time.. how likely would a beagle bring his food dish in for food, not to mention the number of gourmet meals Snoopy preferred.. As refined as a border collie is.. I could see a border collie prefering dinner by candle light, etc.

Kissing Lucy just to annoy her, border collies are not lick happy dogs, but they are smart enough to be mischievous and would certainly do that.. just to be silly!

Your chair is Snoopy’s chair.. yep this is something else my border collie loves to claim.. but well heck most pups will, so i will give this one as a gimmee on either side.

Stealing Linus’s Blanket and cuddling with it.. now really a border collie loves to cuddle with a favorite item.. and would love to grab and steal your blankie.. if he thinks it is his… again not something i picture as a normal beagle thing.

The Snoopy Dance! OK I have seen my border collie do this when my hubbie comes home.. he does the Snoopy dance at the door!! Can you picture a beagle doing that??

So Snoopy WAS a Border Collie!

Vote Angelique from the Crerand bar. Gotta vote by Sunday, but we appreciate it!!!

Many people think, so what if John Kerry becomes president? It’s not the end of the world. In the big scheme of things, blah blah blah.
Well, I finally found a perspective that actually does support this theory.

The cosmos will be a deathly silent graveyard, cloaked in perpetual night.

As best we can deduce from measurement, this somber scenario will play out endlessly. There will be no reversal, no Big Crunch to start the cycle anew. The cosmos ” dark, uninteresting and inactive ” will simply continue to expand and thin.

So here’s the big picture: the universe begins with a 100 billion-year blip of activity, and then flatlines to endless paralysis. All our works ” all the poetry, the science, the tenderness, and the rock-and-roll ” all will be stilled and lost. The death of the universe is not just long ” it’s eternal. The short, bright spurt at the beginning where we now find ourselves is not only insignificantly short in the cosmos’ history, it’s infinitely short.

In the words of Ray Charles:

“I knew being blind was suddenly an aid. I never learned to stop at the skin. If I looked at a man or a woman, I wanted to see inside. Being distracted by shading or coloring is stupid. It gets in the way. It’s something I just can’t see.”

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My wife is so not one of these women that Michelle Malkin takes apart. Thank God that is the case.

Rosie the Riveter has given way to Sally the Sniveler. During World War II, young Rose Will Monroe was the face of American women in adversity: strong, supportive and resolute against the enemy forces that threatened our existence. Tens of thousands like Rosie rolled up their sleeves, gritted their teeth, and flexed their muscles in factories and shipyards and arsenals across the country.
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But Rosie is gone. And in her place, we have Hysterical Women for Kerry. They are self-absorbed celebrities who support banning all guns (except the ones their bodyguards use to protect them and their children). They are teachers’ union bigwigs who support keeping all children hostage in public schools (except their own sons and daughters who have access to the best private institutions). They are sanctimonious environmentalists who oppose ostentatious energy consumption (except for their air-conditioned Malibu mansions and Gulfstream jets and custom Escalades.)

They are antiwar activists who claim to love the troops (except when they’re apologizing to the terrorists trying to kill our men and women in uniform). They are peace activists who balk at your son bringing in his “Star Wars” light saber for the kindergarten Halloween parade (but who have no problem serving as human shields for torture-loving dictators). They are ultrafeminists who purport to speak for all women (but not the unborn ones or the abstinent teenage ones or the minority conservative ones or the newly enfranchised ones in Afghanistan).

Also in Michelle’s posting, it lets me know that Kerry ordered Swiss Cheese on his Philly Cheesesteak.
Ummm… ewwwwww.

Ok this is just a ranting, only a ranting, do not be alarmed, etc, etc… (In tune of the Emergency Broadcast System). To those who are easily offended, etc, etc”¦ please don’t read on. (more…)

Sorry haven’t been blogging much. Working on a new WiSSH release taking all my free time.
Completely off topic: Let me describe Delaware. A wasteland of being stuck in traffic, with two of three vehicles being big SUV’s with a OBX (Outer Banks, North Carolina) sticker in the back window, like they are trying to be cool, while they are all driving to their crappy jobs working for credit card companies, figuring out new ways of removing poor people from their money.

New trees cancel out air pollution cuts?
Is anyone else extremely confused right now? And no, they aren’t talking about strange mutant trees belching out methane.

Industry has dramatically cut its emissions of pollutants, called volatile organic compounds. But those cuts have been more than offset by the amount of VOCs churned out by trees.

The revelation challenges the notion that planting trees is a good way to clean up the atmosphere.

So, lets cut down the mean old forests that are polluting our atmosphere?

This will get you in the mood to have a game going…
Caution: you need about an hour to go through all the different episodes (about 111 at this point!)

Local rag the News Journal Reports on how Jamie Gorelick, an obviously non-partisan member of the 9/11 commission came to Delaware to speak for the ACLU, and is seen sitting with Senator Joe Biden.
Hehheh… Sorry, it just took me a few minutes to stop laughing. Putting non-partisan in the same sentence as the News Journal, Jamie Gorelick, ACLU, and Joe Biden, well, I’m suprised my keyboard didn’t explode.

Much of the world supported the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, but now the “Muslim world is against us in droves,” she said. Gorelick cited a poll showing that two-thirds of Muslims living in various countries feared the United States would invade their own country.

“You cannot lead a world where you are more feared than the enemy you are rallying against,” she said.

Of course, it may never occur to her that perhaps 2/3rds of the Muslim word may just be our enemy.

Gorelick said commission members did not know it, but the co-chairs, Republican Tom Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton, made a secret deal before the commission started its 15 months of work.

“They would never vote differently on any vote,” she said, “and it worked.”

“If you read the 9/11 report, you will see that unity of spirit, that unity of purpose and a call for unity of effort,” she said.

Yeah, thats democracy in action for you. Secret deals made in what may have been the most important government investigation in years. And of course a government insider is praising it.

Now I know why Kerry is pro-tax compared to Bush.

The Kerrys may be the richest people ever to occupy the White House  if he’s elected  but, according to data cited by the Club For Growth (search), they’re paying a tax-rate far lower than the 20 percent rate of most middle class families.

According to the Club For Growth, the Kerrys had a combined income of $6.8 million last year, and they paid $725,000 in income tax  an effective tax rate of 12.8 percent. The Bushes paid a 30.4 percent tax rate.

Kerry has all the tax shelters he needs. So why should he care how much us little people pay?

Got ‘em all on videotape a few years back.
I also have several of the books around somewhere.
Space: 1999 was the best of the British sci-fi.
I had the playset, the handheld laser squirtgun, and even the walkie talkies.
Damn I would love to see this one updated to today’s special effects. But the Eagles still have to look the same. But the idea of the story is great, and even some of the old plot lines can be reused.
Thanks to Ghost of a Flea for reminding me!
Now I know what I’m doing tonite… its flashback time….

This news article tells the heartwarming story about Sean Penn getting mighty pissed because Trey Parker and Matt Stone have an opinion that differs from his own.

President Bush isn’t the only one upset with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone over their new puppet film, Team America: World Police.

Oscar winner Sean Penn apparently wrote an angry letter to the comedy duo after they made fun of Sean “ËœP Diddy’ Combs’ Vote Or Die campaign to persuade US youngsters to vote in next month’s presidential election.

He was infuriated at Stone’s theory that America might elect better leaders if lazy, apathetic voters stayed at home and didn’t bother to vote.

Why? Voting is a right and a responsibility. Not voting is also a right. Free country means you don’t have to participate in elective democracy if you don’t want to. Everyone bitches all the time about the poor quality of the candidates. They are chosen because people who aren’t informed voters also get to pick them. So rather than being the smartest, wisest, most capable candidate, you get pretty boys who look good on TV. If only informed voters were to vote, then the candidates would better match what people wanted.

In the letter ” said to have left the comic writers “howling with laughter” - Penn wrote: “I remember a cordial hello when you guys were beginning to be famous guys around Hollywood. I remember several times getting a few giggles out of your humour.

“I remember not being bothered as you traded on my name among others to appear witty. I never mind being of service in satire and silliness.

and propaganda….

“I do mind when anybody who doesn’t have a child, doesn’t have a child at war, or isn’t or won’t be in harm’s way themselves is saying that ‘there is no shame in not voting if you don’t know what you are talking about’.

OK, fine, I was at war, and I say the same thing as Matt Stone. And I would be proud should my children follow myself, my father, my uncles, my grandfathers, and on back and serve their country in military service. My grandfather’s youngest brother was killed in combat in Korea.

“You guys are talented young guys, but alas, primarily young guys. It’s all well to joke about me or whomever you choose.

“Not so well to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation and death of innocent people around the world.

“The vote matters to them. No one’s ignorance, including a couple of hip cross-dressers’, is an excuse.”

Penn signed off with a four letter word and offered to show the pair around Baghdad.

“When we return, make all the fun you want,” he added as a postscript. The Thurderbirds-style film is said to poke serious fun at the Bush administration and the directors found Penn’s letter so amusing they leaked it to the media.

The vote SHOULD matter to everyone. If someone is so damn lazy that they can’t be bothered to get out and register themselves, they damn well should be bribed to make them vote. Oh wait, that is how the democratic ticket wins. People voting themselves shares of the public treasury.

I missed the debate last night. Spent all week getting ready for and doing a Disaster Recovery exercise for work. Went as well as can be expected, even though I was up 3 hours early, and missed any daylight before I got to leave. Ahh well. But at least now that its “over” I can get back to blogging a bit more.
So this morning I’m reading about the debate, and
how everything thinks President Bush said something funny.

The debate did offer a few moments of levity - some unintended, as when Bush denied that there would ever be a reinstatement of the draft under his watch, saying it was a rumor “on the Internets.”

Why is that funny? Oh, wait, because most people don’t know that there are TWO internets. You see, there is a second, high speed internet used by universities, mostly for research. And, since the referenced email about the draft is making its way around the dreadfully uninformed college types, I am sure that this same email has been spread on Internet2. So Mr Bush is a lot more informed than most people think!