I hope y’all had a good first day of 2007. Damn, 2007 just sounds so “futuristic,” doesn’t it? Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a Sci-Fi story. I guess I’ll have to start getting my shit together to go to DC next week. It’s not something I’m looking forward to, that’s for sure. I suppose I’d better update the old resume, and maybe wash some underwear. Although, if it comes down to the underwear, I figure I pretty much got the job.
:joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::eek::eek::eek::crap::crap::shock::shock::smack::smack:
❓ whatever :sheep:le
Alexander Hague is on C-span ..Did this senile old man actually run for presidork ??:eek::crap::yuck::rant1:
In Response to Post-9/11 Concerns, Pataki Is Granted 24-Hour Security
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
George E. Pataki, who became a private citizen yesterday, will be assigned a 24-hour security detail, a privilege rarely offered to a former governor.
A spokesman for Mr. Pataki, David Catalfamo, said that Mr. Pataki’s staff had asked the state police, which provides security to governors while they are in office, to evaluate whether Mr. Pataki would need security after leaving office.
“We asked whether or not it would be necessary going forward, and they said it would be,” Mr. Catalfamo said. He said it would cost the state about $20,000 a week, and possibly more, depending on the number of state police officers assigned to the job. Mr. Catalfamo would not comment specifically on the level of security that would be provided.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer also approved the arrangement, said Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for Mr. Spitzer.
“They’ll take the steps to make sure that he has sufficient security,” she said.
Mr. Catalfamo noted that Mr. Pataki was the first governor to leave office since the Sept. 11 attack. “I think there’s a greater awareness and sensitivity of the security of New York governors and elected officials in a post-9/11 government,” he said.
He added that the arrangement would most likely be temporary, and would be re-evaluated by state police officials each month. He also said the state police would probably seek additional advice on the matter from outside law enforcement agencies, like the United States Secret Service.
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I wonder if Bill Owens will get the same treatment :crap::rant1::reaper::reaper:
Gads… Hague suffers from a case of terminal rectal cranial inversion .. :paranoid::paranoid::yuck::rant1:
Dollar Falls; U.S. Factory, Jobs Data May Show Slowing Economy
Bloomberg
By Ron Harui and Chris Young
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell for a fifth day against the euro on speculation U.S. reports this week will show job creation slowed and manufacturing growth stalled, bolstering the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
Data due today and tomorrow may show Europe’s factories expanded at a faster pace and German unemployment dropped, adding to signs that the European Central Bank will raise borrowing costs. The dollar slid against 15 out of the 16 most actively traded currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
“Disappointing numbers this week will get us back to thinking when will the Fed cut rates next,” said Harvinder Kalirai, head of research in Sydney at State Street Corp.. “The Fed will cut interest rates and the U.S. rate advantage will erode, weighing on the dollar.”
The dollar fell to 118.74 yen as of 11:57 a.m. in Tokyo compared with 119.01 at the close of trading in New York yesterday. It also dropped to $1.3239 per euro from $1.3174. The U.S. currency will slide to $1.35 in the next three to six months, Kalirai forecast.
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I always wonder what factory output they are talking about ??:yuck::eek::rant1::reaper::reaper:
Democrats To Start Without GOP Input
Quick Passage of First Bills Sought
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01
As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.
House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of their well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include tightening ethics rules for lawmakers, raising the minimum wage, allowing more research on stem cells and cutting interest rates on student loans.
But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in deliberations, as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition from offering alternative measures, assuring speedy passage of the bills and allowing their party to trumpet early victories.
Nancy Pelosi, the Californian who will become House speaker, and Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, who will become majority leader, finalized the strategy over the holiday recess in a flurry of conference calls and meetings with other party leaders. A few Democrats, worried that the party would be criticized for reneging on an important pledge, argued unsuccessfully that they should grant the Republicans greater latitude when the Congress convenes on Thursday
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I see the demodorps don’t intend to get anything done while pointing fingers and yelling.. but ..but ..we need more power Onk Onk Squeal squeal ..:gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Those three guys in sweat shirts and ski masks need to come in and take Hague away ..:gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Hmmmm I wonder who is fist :rofl2:?
:yippee::dancers::cool: FRED Is #1,2,3 “…to infinity and beyond…”
:cool::yippee::dancers::dancers::dancers: :pirate: 😎 😉
aiv
So Fred, did you save us all? 😉 Did you whip the “powers that be” into shape :spank:? (giggle)
aiv
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its Druid :yippee::yippee::yippee:
Whats happening in Caliwarmila ??
I don’t know … It’s Dark Still :yippee: :pirate: :yippee: 😉
(the last day was actually Nice 😮 finally — but I saw a picture of Denver :omg: — I feel for you, … and :bow: I am not there.
Are you dethawing any? )
Infuse t:joe: into open vein. 😉 t:joe:
aiv
Edwards is so cute!! But he does that strange tongue thing when he is speaking…i wonder if they have worked on it for this time round?
He is tiny though…but it doesnt matter…..as long as he uses an apple box when he is appearing with anyone really tall.
Comment by Melina — January 1, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Heightist. :no: :rofl2:
Actually, Melina, I saw Edwards in 2004 when he came to St Pete to make a speech, and he didn’t appear to be all that short. Of course, I had been campaigning for Dennis Kucinich that year, so my sense of proportion may have been a little warped. 🙂
Fred, thanks for posting the video clip. I’m at work, so I haven’t felt bold enough to look at it yet, but I’ll check it out later.
Jeb is governor for only five more hours!
:yippee::yippee::yippee:
:banana::banana::banana:
Not that I’m a huge fan of Charlie Crist, I just like the thought of Jeb GOING AWAY!!!
:fu:
:fire:
any time a Bush leaves office, it’s a time for celebration.
governors can be so wacky. http://tinyurl.com/ykyuq6
PJ, what’s happening in DC that is taking you away from siggy and raging G?
It is too bad that when someone is voted out of office they don’t really go away ..They just crawl back in their hole and like all good cockroaches come out again the next election season.:gate::omg::jason::jason:
Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway?
With Shelf Space Prized, Fairfax Libraries Cull Collections
By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01
You can’t find “Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings” at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or “The Education of Henry Adams” at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson’s “Final Harvest”? Don’t look to the Kingstowne branch.
It’s not that the books are checked out. They’re just gone. No one was reading them, so librarians took them off the shelves and dumped them.
Along with those classics, thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months.
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24 months is the cut off? what the heck? shameful
Farmerkat , re 13 I was actually Sad that he has to leave Wife (THE RAGE) and SIGGY, I was just in the looking at computer saying WTF :smack: 😯 (this is said in a joking manner — but in truth No Joke :omg:
How is the Farm, Farmerkat? The odds are since I have turned into a “Mush” now that “I am in town now” (a snapping “Z”) I will not be going in for a Kayak Raft dip until SOME SUMMER — but maybe before I am 108 (oh I am now hmmmm) and SINCE I AM NOT IN SNOW ANYMORE — some year I do look into a Winter Kayak Ride. (It haunts me, on the Bay for Winter) how Charming. I am enthralled. But sadly it has To Wait. Sniff.
aiv
I think the libraries are moving away from being places for books and more toward places with huge Optical disk libraries..You can email yourself a link or a PDF file if you don’t want to stay at the library and read the book on line. :eek::reaper::reaper:
Twenty Five percent of US population is certifiably Insane
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:nod::nod::nod:
Morning Druid!
I need to get my kayak down and paddle around here. the Chattahoochee is really dirty, though, so I don’t feel inspired to go to the trouble. Paddling with large chunks of ice flowing past is somehow much more pleasant.
Universal Health Care Run by Psychotics
3,000 Dead: So Who’s Counting?
By Cindy Sheehan
Monday 01 January 2007
Gerald Ford, an incompetent, never-elected past president, is being memorialized today by one of his good buddies and close confidantes, Dastardly Dick. The execution of Saddam Hussein is being celebrated by a bloodthirsty media and another never-elected, execution-happy, incompetent president. Dozens, if not hundreds, more innocent Iraqis were killed today, and more than likely, the 3,000th soldier crossed the threshold from life into the next world.
http://tinyurl.com/yxd5p8
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Eventually they will understand it was not the people standing in the streets that changed the war mongering sociopaths minds in past conflicts :gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Jeezus, Fred. How will they recognize him?
Fred, re 19
One recent fact travels with me everywhere …Poll (AP i think) 86% of Americans think lying is okay. This is what the parents are teaching. 😮 86:fu:% thinks lying is okay. 😯 :smack:
And how is the coming of you, doing ? 😉 FRED Will Save Us :yippee: :rofl2: 😎
aiv
Here is a technical question for the ladies here..
I have this Knitted Afghan that got “dirty” and needs to be cleaned .
If I wash it in the bath tub in warm water then tumble dry ( no heat) it will that work..??
fabric content? hand knit or machine knit?
Hand knitted.. A bunch of bright colors
I’d handwash it in cold water (bathtub would work), roll it up in a towel to gently squeeze out extra water, reshape it on a towel or two to block dry. Heron or Gypsy may have more informed advice.
Thanks Kat
off to walk and then a boat load of paperwork crap.
Ciao!
Cheers, I am back…. Everytime I do my “chores” for this time, when I get upstairs I feel like screaming :safe: :hot:
Fred you should go and get a “gentle” soap for delicate wash. [Preferably “natural” — possibly look on web for “around house natural “soap”.) With decent soap, you should be able to wash BY HAND In Cold (so you do not set in stain)}
I agree with Farmerkat re “blocking”, but I do have a tendency to take the intense “wet” tumble to DAMP (not even near dry) then “block” drape. Check WEB for all types of “super-natural” which you may have to do or go IN SNOW to a store. :eek::rofl2::eek:
aiv
Fred, Bright Colours or Black [Mwah HaHa], you do not want to AT ALL = NEVER Wash in Warm:!: :no: 😉 😎 If it is handknitted then WASH IN COLD — NEVER WASH IN WARM:!: (even Polywhatever) It will keep it’s “shape” or “knit” or “form” or whatever 🙄 — setting stains in is bad “juju”, but always . And a pain in :spank:.. You could wash “polywhatever in warm, but if stained one could set in stain. 😮 😉
aiv
good morning…day 1 million of the Ford tribute….apparently (according to Mom) Imus only phoned in so Chris Matthews is at the MSNBC helm…
I think that if they keep dragging poor Betty Ford around like this she is going to expire before our eyes….maybe we could just throw her in the casket with Gerry and be done with it…
The son who was on the YOung and the Restless was just crying at the gun salute…..
Mom wants to know if a National day of mourning means No Mail!!??
She thinks they closed the stock exchange!
Martha Stewart had on a Men’s show yesterday…I never watch her but she had Jamie Oliver and it was that or…nothing…so…
She was showing the ashing of such sweaters and said that she had found this certain soap that is so great for these delicate things….let me try to find it….
they even have a soap for black colors.
Kat is right about the towel blocking….its dry there so you should be able to get it mostly dry on a towel, changing the towel of course as it gets more dry….here it would have mildew in a couple of hours….I like the air tumble thing but with something like that you could ruin it….
Here ya go fred….INstructions from Martha herself…
I would use woolite or the store brand of woll washer…but look at how she suggests a little fabric softener into the basin….that makes sense.
I cant find the name of the soap she was talking about…..but Im gonna look for it….
Melina 😎 :rofl2:
I am about two days late in changing Rat cages 😮 So everytime I see your name it reminds me DO RAT CAGES NOW:!: :omg::rofl2:
Re that “air”dry… This is a “naughty Morrigan “quicky” way :spank:
the other “quicky” way is a “block” drape, as long as one does not stretch sweater.
When newly purchased, Clean in proper ways ONLY. Go to a Natual Dry Clearner is :cool:, but I handwash :nod: :omg: 😮 :doh:
but the IMPROPER GAMBLE WAY
Tumble ON GENTLE only
— only until VERY DAMP not the massive super damp.
But The True Way Is To BLOCK :nod:
a.i.v.
…and because we love Rudy, the Daily News is featuring him on the front cover!!
This is fun…..Run, Rudy, Run!
Yeah Dru, I never can really do this stuff anyway because its so wet here even in the dry months….so most of my stuff gets at least an air tumble….
Ugh…I can imagine how those cages smell…probably as bad as the hedgehog in Will’s room!
I was just shredding paper in the shredder to do that! Will can sleep in the same room with that rodent with spikes and not be bothered by the smell…because he is too lazy to change the cage….!!
I put carpet fresh animal smell stuff on the bottom of the cage under the bedding….or at least baking soda…but I have a very sensitve smeller and so am bothered even a floor away!!
Has anyone on Air America Radio said anything about whats going on there?
I understand that today has beenmade into a holiday day too….day of mourning and Grandpa confirms that there is no mail today…
…hedgehog in Will’s room! :rofl2::cool:
I “know” that smell. That BETTER CHANGE CAGE NOW:!::!::!: Smell. :eek::rofl2::eek:
… but for me, I didn’t get a camera (CNick:nana:) I bought Huge Rodent Cages wow real cool for excitement huh 🙄 :rofl2: no movies, no shoes, no skirt or shirts but Yea Rat Cages and Stray Cat Food. :yippee: :doh:
a.i.v.
But Melina, you know that story … First Will, the Animals, Your Family (I think they are 2 really chuckle), and finally You. Maybe :roll::wink: :rofl2:
a.i.v.
Quake righty station manager has pulled the Friday night already truncated to two hours and on tape Randi Rhodes show for a local LGBT (not that there is anything wrong with it) program. Goodbye, :boobs:.
Reminder: Same Clear Channel guy (last name Agnew) who pulled Al Franken and lied about it starting many of the rumor waves you have been seeing since November. I think he is trying to undermine the station to get its format switched. He also runs the CCRadio righty blovistation.
I am keeping an eye on developments in Boston, Columbus, Madison etc. SF could be next to lose its progtalker on free radio. Of course we still have several non-com options but I don’t see any Maron shows coming out of non-com.
DON”T USE WOOLITE!!~!~
:cold:
OK I will finish reading the posts.
and I hate dry cleaning, too!
heron, you were right about the omen of seeing an actual heron before taking a trip. I had a great trip home.
uh……
did i just hear Sean on the Stephanie Miller show??
:omg:
a “sean from Buffalo” called in and i thought, “what? is that Seanie sean?”
:shock::banana:
oh, and….
HAPPY NEW YEAR SEDITIONISTS!!
:banana::dancers::yippee::fist::40:
At least not for wool!
Ok I’ve had a sip of coffee and I am calmer now.
Fred you are better off using Dawn. A lot of wool spinners like Dawn and I guess :penguin: like’s it too. But I like Brown’s top of the lamb shampoo for wool found in yarn stores.
I have ruined wool sweaters with woolite. It puts a weird coating on the wool.
I never use fabric softener so I would never consider that.
The thing about the water temp is that you don’t want to “shock” the wool with drastic temperature changes and agitation that will felt it. Washing an afghan is a hassle. I would use the washer just as a soaking and spin-out device. Fill the basin with water (warm is ok if no stains) Turn the machine off. Soak for at least 30 minutes but no more than an hour. Flip the dial to the spin cycle and spin out water. Fill the basin again with the same temp water. The spin cycle will cut your drying time way down.
Drying it will take some time. I would probably try to hang it over my shower curtain rod (over towels) as long as it wasn’t dripping wet.
OK that is my “expert” advise. I have made all of the heedless woolwashing mistakes there are over the years.
Fred if the fiber looks sparkly it may be acrylic …then I dunno I am not an acrylic expert.
sblueheron, :yippee: :pirate: I’m radical, though since I do not use Woolite, either. But everyone does.
But SBlue, besides being a woman (many layered joke:rofl2:) is The Knitting Expert, Fred :yippee: and she is here :hot:. 😉
a.i.v.
Farmerkat..I am sad we didn’t meet. But I see a meeting on Bainbridge in our future. I am still tempted to move over there at times.
Fortunately I am on the heron flight path. There are loads of herons in the city now but I never saw one growing up. My Scottish folklore friend tells me about the good luck of seeing herons before a journey and has me on the lookout as I travel so much. I love it when they fly over the car. He also spits and touches the dashboard and says “Cold Iron”(in gaelic) when a crow flies over the car.
I want my MARON:growl::fustrate:
Ok It is back to work here…nose to the grindstone…see you later tonight!
:dancers::knit::gate:
Druid..:love:
Dawn is what marine biologists use for cleaning oil spill victims. Great advice, blue.
I also used something called Crystal White that used to be very cheap but just as good.
:dancers::banana::banana::yippee::yippee::yippee::banana::banana::dancers:
HAPPY 2007
Has no one posted in the past 2 hours:?:
we are mourning the passing of Gerry Ford…
Keith Olbermann is gonna be back at 8 tonight and hes got a COMMENT!! Oh I am so happy!
wow…..where is everyone?
I’m in the car in greenwich
Hey :paranoid:
Hey!
krista…get the new computer shopper magazine…jan 2007…it has a whole section on buying a new computer and the speeds and stuff….very interesting
is the blog slow or was it down?
Someone needs to change the batteries on the blog, it’s gettin’ kinda slow
The HP shopping.com outlet store has some good prices on both laptops and desktops
They offer credit through Retail services which is the same company that provides credit to Bestbuy and Computer City customers
http://tinyurl.com/y25szu
I’m still on the road and feeling crappy….but it seems like the blog has been down….or everyone is busy with after holiday stuff
so they are suggesting more power and ram for what I do….interesting how when a salesperson wants to make a sale they will say that a good deal configuration is right for what you do….when it doesn’t match.
I also figured out the problem with apple….
don’t go there, Melina!:omg:
PJ needs to beat up his web server provider The blog keeps timing out , displaying a blank screen and Done on the status line .:growl::growl::growl:
in comparison Apples basic models are very underpowered and there is not a lot of choice. So its important to upgrade…especially the Ram, which is low even for the basic user…the graphics cards also have to be looked at if you do any graphics intensive stuff…and the HDs are much smaller than comparable PCs. There is only so much to choose from…and its, of course, perfectly possible to configure a great system…but within their framework which is rather limited.
Suddenly, it became clear to me while reading about all of these choices, that its much easier to control and keep up and running a system that is so controlled.
PCs are open to such a spectrum of the manufacturing market and canbe put together by anyone….so, they can be much less stable….not to mention Microsoft….though Leo La0Porte likes Vista alot….
re #63 if you don’t like the HP disgraced executive sale, you can wait a few months for the apple disgraced executive sale if you have the patience of Jobs..
Capitalists are 👿
nothing wrong with apple as long as you configure carefully
“The company” has purchased several laptops from the Hp outlet store and they are still running strong. Dell has a similar store. They both offer a new equipment warrently
If anybody would be up for doing a tracert to morningseditonists.com from your location, and sending me the results, I would be interested in seeing what you get. Please e-mail the results to me at pjsauter AT morningseditionists.com.
Directions on how to do it (in Windows) follow:
1. Press the Windows key and the ‘R’ key at the same time.
2. Type in “cmd” (without the quotes)
A command window will pop up. At the command prompt.
Type in:
“tracert morningseditionists.com” (without the quotes)
Hit enter.
You’ll see a bunch of stuff, followed by “trace complete.”
Right-click on the title bar of the command window. A menu pops up, go down to edit, and an edit menu will pop out, click on “select all” (you’ll see that everything is selected). Hit enter (everything is now no longer selected). Begin composing a new e-mail, and in the body, press the Control key and the ‘V’ key (or do edit>paste) to paste the contents of the tracert in.
Here’s an example of what I get from here:
Tracing route to morningseditionists.com [64.202.189.115]over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms 10.220.80.1
3 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms fas6-4.syrcnybsh-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.229.29]
4 10 ms 8 ms 11 ms srp8-0.syrcnyspp-rtr04.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.228.33]
5 10 ms 8 ms 12 ms gig14-0-0.syrcnyspp-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.7.93]
6 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms so-5-0-1.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.7.66]
7 26 ms 26 ms 23 ms te-3-2.car1.Boston1.Level3.net [4.79.0.69]
8 28 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-11-11.car2.Boston1.Level3.net [4.69.132.246]
9 * * 68 ms ae-5-5.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.132.250]
10 55 ms 51 ms 52 ms ge-6-0-0-55.gar4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.133]
11 58 ms 52 ms 51 ms qwest-level3-oc48.NewYork.Level3.net [4.68.110.174]
12 54 ms 52 ms 53 ms ewr-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.17.129]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 142 ms 210 ms 143 ms phv-edge-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.129.126]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 88 ms 127 ms 92 ms ip-64-202-160-1.secureserver.net [64.202.160.1]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 110 ms 111 ms 116 ms linhost143.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.189.115]
Trace complete.
What I’m looking for are hops with high latency, although I think it’s more to do with the db server, since static pages don’t load so slowly. I am dicking around w/ the support people before I switch hosts, which will be a big hassle on a lot of levels. Thanks.
Oh, BTW, careful if you use QuickTime. It was the Day One of the Apple bug-a-day project.
Tried but the whole thing disappears after the scan
pj, did you lose Rudy’s playbook?
Are you opening up the command window first, before running the tracert (if you run tracert from the run command, it will open a windown and then close it; need to do start>run>cmd and then tracert? Don’t worry about it, though. I was just curious.
mine is timing out but my c has a bit of a path after it…programs and…/melina…/
does it have to be run directly from a c prompt?
Rudy?
how do I get back to just a C prompt?
because we need some fun, Rudy Guiliani lost his play book for financial means of running for president and it was given to the NY Daily News…involving raising 100 mil right away and all sorts of stuff like memos asking how they can get around the problems….the big problems….Sam Seder was talking about Rudy this AM….how fun it is to enlighten conservatives to what his real story is….
its just the first gaffe in what promises to be a really fun, fun, fun primary season for the repugs!
Doesn’t matter where you run it from, but to back up one level, you enter cd ../ (two levels, cd ../../ etc).
PJ, If you need for me to, I would be glad to try if you tell me :doh: and I even learned at several times in my life :doh: where the following is you speak of :rofl2::omg: :doh: :
Right-click on the title bar of the command window.
A.I.V.
Oh, haven’t seen or heard any news today.
Im still getting each number hop timed out….Ill try to copy this one…but it just says request timed out.
Unbelievable Keith Olbermann comment a moment ago….you folks towards the western times be sure to catch him….
and totally unbelievable that Bush is gonna launch “operation Sacrifice”…seriously….and send more troops to keep peace…not train Iraqis or anything more than try to keep a little peace…
Operation Sacrifice? can that be?
So, I am leaning towards getting a Mac.It seems like it has everything I need or may need. I really liked the built in webcam.
Looks like your ISP doesn’t allow that.
Hey Gang!
Melina, will the special comment be on the web anywhere?
Well, if you like the Mac, then get one. But the camera isn’t exclusive to Macs. They’re pretty common these days.
Definitely appears to be some latency once you get into secureserver.net, eh?
Melina, I have to wait to get Olbermann until he appears in past files, but I am glad to be advised of the Future, :wink:. thus, Operation Sacrifice :barf: :omg: :eek::reaper: :dancers: b&b.adm.
a.i.v.
Ah, they say it’s because of their firewalls, and I should piss off, or pay more. Performance has always been a bit flakey, but has degraded a lot, as of late. I guess I’ll have to psych myself up to move.
Just a wee bit.
It’s really not all that bad, if the price is right why bother?
Well, the static pages aren’t too bad, but there are sometimes some real slowdowns in the blog stuff. I’m sure it’s from having a shitload of db’s on one server, and they also keep everything locked down pretty tight. Your numbers weren’t nearly as bad as what Vernon and I had. Right now, things are a bit better, but they were terrible earlier today.
yeah…things really stood still for a while. I kept getting a white screen….
Krista, just be sure that you get 1 gig of RAM, 512megs at the very least, but it should be upgradable…. and the largest hard drive that you can afford…also if there is a choice of graphics cards you want to pick the higher end one.
Seems strange that Apple wouldnt have the best graphics cards as standard, but they seem to embed it into something else unless you specifically shop for that….
aquaman, Olbermann’s comment already on Crooks and Liars
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Wow, that was fast!
KO’s on fire!
In case anyone is interested the Yearly Kos has a special fee for early registration of $100 for full access…and the Travel Flea Market is offering great airfares (I got a rountrip NY to CHI) for $143….and there are rooms still available at the special rate ….
Thanks Vern!! You da man!
THX wvmc3d , Amazing:!: 😎 :growl:
AND as wvmc3d said … THX Melina 😉
a.i.v.
Thanks to Melina for the heads up. Love spreading that word.
We have to come out of the blocks this year :tommygun:.
He is really incredible…if anyone will be viewed kindly by history from this time, it will be Keith….
Ill put it up when it hits youtube…or tomorrow….have to get up early tomorrow and take Ben and his Mom to an interview at a school.
but have such a bad headache still from the bad virus that wont quit.
On a more serious note…
http://tinyurl.com/vk2al
Pat Robertson Predicts ‘Mass Killing’
7:25 PM PST, January 2, 2007
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward “national suicide.”
Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.
The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush’s 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president’s Social Security initiative was stalled.
“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”
In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America’s coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring’s heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.
ex,
I was about to mount a search party for you.
It might be too early for the Letterman thing to show up anywhere but this looked new to me maybe to tie you over for a while http://tinyurl.com/yh53qx .
I should have video tape of Letterman and Comedy Central if things work out after tomorrow night.
I’m waxing my skis.