Damn, has it been a week already?
Starting off on Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead host John Edwards, on to connect Timmy with the spirit of Big Russ (who may or may not actually be dead). Oh, wait, it’s the other John Edwards. Never mind.
Since you probably won’t hear much about the Super Bowl today, Bobby Schieffer brings you an all-NFL Faze the Nation, with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the annoying Dan Marino (who was on his back all day anytime he played Syracuse while he was at Pitt), former Giants albino quarterback Phil Simms, and CBS Sports booblehead, Jim Nantz.
Over at Fux News Sunday, weaselface Chris Wallace will attempt to perpetuate the myth that Democrats don’t have a plan to get us the hell out of Iraq. Unfortunately for the weaselfaced little fuck, he’ll be interviewing Jim Webb, who will hopefully deck him. Plus li’l Lindsey Graham will be on to whine and piss his pants.
Over at Goebbels, George Snufalufagus hosts Saint John McCain, on to talk out of both sides of his mouth, plus Chuck “not bad for a Republican” Hagel (don’t forget, he was one of the 28 Republican bastards to vote in favor of repealing the Federal minimum wage entirely), to talk about the Senate’s “controversial” non-binding (give these cowards some cheese, fer chrissakes) resolution to give dubya a limp rebuke on throwing more American kids into that pit over in Iraq. Then, David Brooks and George :jerk: Will will try to out-asshole each other, as Donna Brazile looks on and attempts to seem relevant. Plus, we’ll hear from the Duchess of York (I think that’s Fergie, isn’t it?) on being named the American Cancer Society’s ‘Mother of the Year.’ What the hell – she’s not even American, is she (or is it the duchess of York, PA)? Stephen Colbert needs to give the cancer society a wag of the finger over this.
Over on CNN, it’s “former day” on Wolf Blitzer’s late emission, with former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, former President of Lebanon, Amine Gemayel, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, former CIA spook Bob Baer, and the formerly relevant Ralph Nader. Plus, occasional Democrat Dianne Feinstein, extremely specialized German sidearm, Dick Lugar, Rob Portman (who is actually willing to admit to being White House Budget Director), and co-author of “Cobra II: The Inside Story of How the Bush Administration Fucked Up Iraq,” Michael Gordon.
Later, on 60 Minutes, there is no 60 Minutes this week, because it’s Super Bowl EX EL EYE, between the Chicago Bears and the Indy Colts. Why the hell is the Super Bowl in February now, anyway? To the extent that I care who wins (which, mostly, I don’t), I guess I’ll just have to go for the team with the most former SU players – which would be the Colts, with 5. Plus, I never really liked Mike Ditka (he really has nothing to do with the Bears now, but fuck ’em anyway).
Have a super Sunday.
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Professional sports suck :sheep: le
Hillary A ( for AIPAC) D ( for DLC) Clinton thinks Iran supports the terraists in Iraq and won’t rule out the use of military action against them
In 1778 Great Britain was considering military action against France for its support of group of terraist too.. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Bush says budget will limit non-defense spending
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush said on Saturday his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while making defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan the top priority.
“Cutting the deficit during a time of war requires us to restrain spending in other areas,” Bush said in his weekly radio address.
http://tinyurl.com/39a3nx
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When the demodrps wake up to the real situation in this country they will have to get rid of the head thug to get anything done ..
The problem is most people WILL NOT WAIT or just plain can’t wait another two years ..
DLC DEMODORPS :tommygun:
RETHUGS :tommygun:
AIPAC Bots :tommygun:
G’Morning Fred, Tea :joe: Cheers.
Hillary = :barf: … which leads to three 😉 :fist: HiiiYaaa.
A.I.V.
Ahhh, the smell of gunfire in the morning. :pirate:
A.I.V.
Orlando Homeless Laws Stir Heated Debate
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – At Lake Eola park, there is much beauty to behold: robust palms, beds of cheery begonias, a cascading lake fountain, clusters of friendly egrets and swans, an amphitheater named in honor of Walt Disney.
Then there are the signs.
DO NOT LIE OR OTHERWISE BE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION ON A PARK BENCH … DO NOT SLEEP OR REMAIN IN ANY BUSHES, SHRUBS OR FOLIAGE … per city code sec. 18A.09 (a) and (o).
Visit the park’s restrooms, and you’ll find this sign on the wall above the hand dryers:
BATHING AND/OR SHAVING IN RESTROOM IS PROHIBITED … per city code 18A.09 (p) … LAUNDERING CLOTHES IN LAKE EOLA PARK IS NOT PERMITTED.
Since joggers and dog walkers tend not to snooze in flower beds, and because employees at the glittering office towers around Lake Eola don’t scrub laundry in park sinks, it’s clear, says Monique Vargas, at whom the notices are targeted.
http://tinyurl.com/2wogqc
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If you look at all the forclosures, the people living under bridges and standing in lines at soup kitchens its obvious that the unemployment rate is not 4.4% so the solution is to force those people to places where they are not so obvious .. wouldn’t want to make people think the USA was really the SBR ..
I wonder if Chavez would support a Hezbollah type movement in the SBR .??. Once you feed and provide minimal housing for all these people then you teach them how to shoot. ( it would seem a lot are Iraqi vets through perhaps not much training required)
:gate: :omg: :jason: :fist:
Rethugs are 👿
I still wonder why “hospice care for the rest of us” aka the liberal media is not looking into this problem .. Perhaps they can’t see the people in the lines at the soup kitchen from the TV room in their 8000 sq ft house on a 5 acre estate out in the boondocks ..and going there to see for your self would be just too disgusting .. Hell you might even touch someone and get dirty .. 😮 😮 😯 😯
:pup: :pup: Hey Druid :pup: :pup:
Whats up in Calinotsowarmila ❓ ❓
:joe: Cheers 😉 Fred.
Enjoying the cool days before the rain next week. :dancers: 😉
…and how is the “living under rethugery rule” Colorado?
:tommygun: :pirate: It is Time to WAKE UP and A.I.V.
Last Nov the Reich in Colorado turned into the reich .. with full democratic rule in both houses and the governorship .. although they have TABOR suspended for another two years so tax revenues can rise to fix some of the infrastructure problems caused by 12 years of thugbot rule.. the new governor ( Ritter) didn’t tell us how well we doing in his state of state address .. He just said he was listening .. to whom who knows .. :rant1:
Got to go blog with ya all later . :nixon: .
Fred, Very Cool 8) :yippee: Fred that is a decent change.
I gotta “run and do” too Cheers, just a “drive-by” :rofl2:
a.i.v.
U.S. Attorney Firings Set Stage for Congressional Battle
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 4, 2007; Page A07
Cummins was the first in a wave of seven U.S. attorneys to be fired by the Justice Department, a move that has prompted sharp criticism from Democrats in Congress and has set the stage for a legislative battle over the attorney general’s power to appoint federal prosecutors.
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A little-noticed provision passed last year allows Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to appoint interim U.S. attorneys indefinitely without seeking approval from the Senate. Fearing an attempted end run around congressional prerogatives, both House and Senate Democrats have introduced legislation to repeal the provision. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the issue Tuesday.
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Gonzales and his aides say that they intend to seek Senate approval for every new U.S. attorney and that the old system, which allowed federal judges to appoint replacements, has both practical and constitutional problems. Justice Department officials also defend Gonzales’s right to fire U.S. attorneys at will and have suggested that each of the recently dismissed prosecutors had performance problems.
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One administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in discussing personnel issues, said the spate of firings was the result of “pressure from people who make personnel decisions outside of Justice who wanted to make some things happen in these places.”
http://tinyurl.com/2jozb6
Melina,
I know how stressful it is to care for and be responsible for an aging person. Believe me, you need all the help you can get. Of course, in this land of the wealthy vs. the rest of us there isn’t much.
I know that there is a booklet which lists the services that are available. You can get it from any of the local pols. Medicare pays for part time help under some circumstances and there is an agency that helps. I think its called Heights-Hill.
It must really be hard coming from Connecticut. My mother is in Brooklyn which does make it easier.
revolt against a national driver’s license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states.
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Within a week of Maine’s action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID.
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States will have to comply by May 2008. If they do not, driver’s licenses that fall short of Real ID’s standards cannot be used to board an airplane or enter a federal building or open some bank accounts.
About a dozen states have active legislation against Real ID, including Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.
Missouri state Rep. James Guest, a Republican, formed a coalition of lawmakers from 34 states to file bills that oppose or protest Real ID.
Though most states oppose the law, some such as Indiana and Maryland are looking to comply with Real ID, Sundeen said.
The issue may be moot for states if Congress takes action.
http://tinyurl.com/2tqf35
Good morning :joe:
according to lefty iconoclast Walter Benn Michaels, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, our habitual list-making may actually be helping to keep history’s most oppressed group—the poor—away from the table. In his new book The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, Michaels argues that many of the racial and ethnic identity divides we have grown so comfortable getting upset over have served as a great distraction from our true national crisis, the growing divide between the rich and the poor. Perhaps even more unnerving is Michaels’s account of how universities serve as “research and development†laboratories for the continued disorientation of American political life.
I heard Michaels talking about this book on CSPAN. It was really interesting.
Melina, Hope Hi feels better soon and gets out of the blasted hospital. good thoughts are with you and your family. trucking to the hospital and caring for the mature folks is not easy. :gate:
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well, the Powerbook had a good night’s sleep and is working fine except for the caps lock key, the equal/plus key, right caps key, and the arrow keys. i really didn’t spill much coffee in to the keyboard itself, but I guess more than what I’d thought. PJ, I put organic half and half in my coffee – is that enough sweetness to damage it? I’d think the Mac would like the organic aspect of the 1/2 & 1/2. I’m kinda hoping another night’s sleep and the Mac will be self-healed.
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timmy is hammering edwards. he put up quotes from the intelligence reports questioning Iraq’s wmd before the war….I thought Edwards
should have asked Timmuh why HE didn’t put those quotes up BEFORE the war….
To scroll up a little bit, and to quote Fred… (I sleep in on Sundays…why wake up when there’re no good cartoons on?)…
If you look at all the forclosures, the people living under bridges and standing in lines at soup kitchens its obvious that the unemployment rate is not 4.4%
The unemployment rate is never as low as the figures indicate, because they only base that on how many people are on unemployment pay…also, a lot of the poor out there do have jobs, but $5.15/hr (unless the federal minimum wage went up?), isn’t enough to afford a place to live in a lot of cities…especially anywhere in Florida.
Doesn’t make it any more right though…
Makes me grateful to have a roof over my head, blankets and all the hot :joe: I want, especially in the arctic blasted environment that’s currently outside my door now. :cold: -12 F, but -35 with windchill…-2 as a high. BRR.
At least the local law enforcement is patroling, picking people up who don’t look like they can handle the cold, and bring them to shelters or hospitals. I’ve had cops ask me if I needed rides on cold days before, too…another thing I’m graeful for, even if I never have taken them up on the offer. Maybe I should one day, just to get the hubby’s reaction.
moronqueen, where do you live?
the problem isn’t the firing of the AG’s necessarily, it’s the appointment without Senate confirmation that is. wish the wapo would have spent more time exploring that.
FK, I’m glad you have at least partial use of your computer. It’s amazing how much we have come to need and enjoy them.
I think that the repeal is of the provision to allow the AG to appoint for an unlimited amount of time. Senate confirmation is probably wise if the senators are wise. Listening to Lieberman, among so many others, does not give me confidence.
What got me was “pressure from people who make personnel decisions outside of Justice who wanted to make some things happen in these places.â€
The who and what were not elaborated. The possibilities are very unnerving.
Minnesota, FarmerKat. 🙂
howdy do….ugh!
Need coffee…and back to the city.
What a life!
moronqueen, as with Farmerkat, “You are a better man {woman} than I, Gunga Din.” , for although once in the freezing cold, I now am at the west coast edge. 😉
Re 20 — all issues well spoken.
a.i.v.
Kat, you need to order (or go, if you want to get out) and get 2 keyboards…keep one in the closet just in case. Are Mac ones expensive? PC ones are really cheap. I use a fancy curved wirless one on the desktop but I have a PS2 one that I can use in a pinch. The problem with the wireless ones is that in certain places in the PC innards, it needs a USB keyboard, so sometimes while on with tech they will ask anyway.
Anyway….It seems like Ben’s family goes through 1 per month on their old, old computer!…its probably because they have no internets rightnow and the kids tend to use it for games…
I nearly killed Will and Ben this morning because the volume wouldnt work…I did everythign. Turned out that the handy dandy rolling CPU cart that I got until I get a proper desk was rolled a little too far, thus unplugging the spseakers! ha!
Edwards on on with Timmeuh…and boy do I love him!
minnna SOOOTA!! :pup:
agree, suP, the executive branch is changing the face of all departments on a seeminly micro level but it all will end up with total fascist infiltration.
let blogger know i’ll try not to feed the computer so much next time.
oh and…family…hah!
My sister called me when she got in at 1:30 AM from her gallery openings and stuff that she does…and I said that I did the hard part but that she had better get some sleep so that she could go next.
I have to go today because I have to get the appt book and phonebook from the apt and figure out which calls to make with him.
He is so much better this time because we got control of it really quick. He wouldhave waited till Monday and been really really sick!
But I called all the Drs and had them make a decision for me…
Th ebest thing in the world is that he has really decided to go with this geriatric practice that comes to the house, so they know what they are doing with old people. His old Dr called me yesterday and offered to call some antibiotics to the pharmacy!!…Jeeze…and there he is on serious IV and in the hospital for 3-5 days.
I think that alot of very old people die needlesly because they dont have the right specialists and feel too attached to their old Drs, who are usually old themselves by that time!
Also, a great thing is that Hi suddenly realized that having a family member present got him into a room quicker in ER…it was so busy and I was all over the Drs. Last time he sat for 8 hours and they didnt call me until he was ebing wheeled into bogus surgery which nearly killed him…I didnt get there till they had done the damage and then they couldnt get him a room for another half a day. I have the proxy now and they all know it so Im being treated incredibly better…
If youve got any old folks that you may end up taking care of, get a healthcare proxy so you can talk to the docs.
oh and Kristen (if youre up yet) the 24 podcast got me through the drive home! Ran out of Sam and Al was too…Al-ish for me .Im reading Katherine Lampher’s book but it seems to be less about AAR and more about how it felt to pick up and move…which is a little annoying because she is very weepy and complains about NYC and out attitude here, which …well, lets just say that Im a born and bred NYer and I just gotta say Boo Hoo!…
Its a big adventure…and maybe more for the young…but notice that I now dont live there anymore. I want the poop in working with Al, and Im afriad that she is gonna softpedal Al and the AAR experience…we’ll see.
Anyway, I laughed out loud when you decided to call Chad Lowe by his other anme: Hillary Swank’s ex….ha! So mean….
And here he is trying to have a career….its always the two career problem! (egos really in showbiz)… Someone has to keep house…right?
He shoulda had a baby while he could!! :rofl2:
Yah, you betcha, ‘eh? :knit:
Though, Druid, I’d much prefer to be back East or on the West coast again, honestly…hubby’s a lifer here, so as long as we’re together I make the best of it. 😉 The state is beautiful, that’s for sure!
Don’t think I’ll ever get used to the idea of driving trucks on lakes, though.
Melina,
Where did you find a dr. willing to make house calls? I’ve had no luck. Are they in Brooklyn?
Its actually the Mt Sinai geriatric home care practice….They dont do it on weekends, and specialists dont do it, but the main Dr’s do.
And so they can head off these cold type things that turn really quickly into something bad.
There is another one on the upper east side, but alot of the hospital based geraitric groups are starting to do this.
Also some Drs will allow you to buy into a program where they will keep only a certain amt of patients and do housecalls and stuff for them. But none of it ends up being 24 hours or weekends.
However, just talking to the Dr on the phone and having him talk to the aide there was enouugh to confirm what I thought but wasnt exactly able to pull off until it got a little worse.
MQ, a news truck here just accidentally drove on a lake doing a story on ice, and it broke through and sank…now its gonna cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace it!
I think that Keith even did a little piece on it.
sue….at least Hi has money…he is just a child of the depression and is unable to come to terms with how old he is and that he needs help.
So its not so much the money as it is his refusal…The VNS has been great to us so far, but its a big struggle with HIM!
I think I saw that on the news here, Melina! They were doing a story on the ice thickness of some of the lakes up here, and they showed a clip of that. Glad everyone’s ok, but man…that really had to suck!
Nora Ephron’s chaon letter from Laura Bush:
Dear Friends,
This chain letter was started in hopes of bringing relief to tired and discouraged women.
Just send a copy of this letter to five of your female friends who are equally tired and discontented. Then bundle up the man in your life, send him to the woman whose name appears at the top of the following list, and then add your name to the bottom of the list.
When your turn comes, you will receive 15,625 men. One of them is bound to be better than the one you already have. At the writing of this letter, a friend of mine had already received 184 men, all of whom were better than the sad example she started out with.
An unmarried woman living with her widowed mother was able to choose between a Chippendale dancer and an Olympic swimmer.
You can be lucky, too, but DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN! One woman broke the chain and got her own husband back!
So let’s keep it going, ladies! Just add your name and address to the list below:
Laura Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
so glad you nipped Hi’s pneuomonia in the bud and that’s some terrific information you’ve given.
that is so funny, sueP, gave me the belly laughs!
Don’t think I’ll drive over a lake anytime soon. I did see KO report on that vehicle and I just finished reading Middlesex which has a drive-on-ice scene (great read if you haven’t read it – I’m behind on reading lists). and I think only JeezUS should walk on that stuff anyway, or moses or whoever else did so in that book of stories. :nixon:
Sue P :no: I had a mouthful of tea when I read that post 37
— over my keyboard. 😮 :omg: 😮 :rofl2: 😆 :banana:
Blogger, :pirate: “Aye Mate-y, Starve those lil c’puters…” But they still act up :knit2: :doh:
a.i.v.
I wiil talk with all later. 😉
a.i.v. repetition is the key
Jeebus walked. Moses parted. A difference of substance vs. style, really.
Seems to be an epidemic of keyboard watering. It would be nice if there were waterproof keyboards. PJ, and all you other knowledgeable computer people, please work on that.
hey…Hi is sleeping so I am resting a little after a maddening short visit with the lawyer. I just can’t fathom how un self aware some people are. I just said ‘ so you want to be the one who gets called in the middle of the night…? and then can’t do anything bc you’re not next of kin…nor do you hold the proxy’…some people barrel in and act like they run the world.
A whooping crane believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms may be alive, because a signal transmitting from the bird indicates it survived, an official said
http://tinyurl.com/2nw8mp
Transcripts from WH Press Briefings and Gaggles Show Faux-Journalist Gannon/Guckert Leading the White House-Approved Attacks on Wilson from the First…
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4117
I admit it, Gannon/Guckert is one of my favorite friends of Bush and I always have hope that one day we will hear all about what (whom?) he was doing at the WH.
Gld to hear that Hi is doing better Melina.
Oh, there are waterproof keyboards, and hardened laptops. If it’s just a keyboard, keep a spare handy (they’re about $8 for a cheapo – good enough to get you through). They’re really quite tolerant of water, though (yank the cable, flip it over, let it dry out). If you spill shit on your laptop, I would make a point of shutting the thing off, pulling the power and battery as rapidly as possible, and then letting it sit upside down on a towel or something for a while. If it’s just water, you could even try hitting it with a hair dryer a little bit. If it’s goopy shit, you can pull the keyboard out and pop off all the keys and stuff. The main thing with a laptop is to try to avoid allowing the spilled stuff from seeping down and shorting out the motherboard (water will dry out – hence, get the power sources removed, but if it’s, like, sugar or syrup, that may need to be scraped off, and that doesn’t always work out so well). Usually takes a while for it to work it’s way down, unless you really drown it. Of course, if a cat knocks over a glass of wine onto your open laptop while you’re not in the vicinity, you could be rather screwed). Replacement keyboards for laptops are a bit pricier than regular ones. Somewhere in the $50 range, give or take (might find a deal, depending on what you need). Fairly easy to remove and replace – helps if you can find directions, because sometimes it’s not obvious how things come apart. Still, pretty simple.
Good luck with Hi, Melina. I had the honor of being the “go to” person for both my mom and dad, and would have happily turned things over to anybody else. It was a lot easier with my mom, ‘cuz I had my wife, and she really knows all ropes – how the system works, what’s available, what to ask, and how to get what you need.
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GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP premieres TONIGHT AT 8 PM CENTRAL TIME
Yeah, it’s during the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I live in Chicago.
Think of it as counterprogramming.
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thanks pj, i have a crappy wireless keyboard so will use until i can either fix or have fixed. i think i could have saved it, but i honestly didn’t think any had spilled in to the keyboard. must have been drops i failed to see. if I had, i would have flipped thing over. good to know about the muthaboard.
i can multi-task, pg!
hey anybody want to buy a copy of the windows vista upgrade for 100$? i got the upgrade and when i went to install it my hard drive took a shit on me so i got a new laptop with vista on it and now have no use for the upgrade……
its the 160$ home premium one……
😮 oh crap i am in the home of the moronqueen!
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Generally you can’t buy a water proof keyboard for your typical Big Box store purchased laptop,
We used to buy “hardened laptops” that were impervious to everything but the packaging made the computer heavy and they were typically like 700 Mhz machines when the industry standard was well over 2 ghz .. and they cost like $4000.. Now we just buy your cheap Dell or Hp laptop and when it breaks we try to recover whats on the hard drive and it goes in the dumpster. After a laptop is about 3 years old the parts start becoming Ebay material too.
:yippee: fred! did you hear bobby seale on c-span yesterday?
😡 or just those friggin rethug christianists and global warming deniers?
Taking apart a laptop is an adventure ..
First you have to figure out what kind of screwdriver you need .. A lot of them use Tork screws of a 3mm size or smaller which are not Phillips compatible even through it looks like they are and are easily stripped ..They reside down a quarter to half an inch in dark little holes and sometimes you have to take the rubber feet off to find the one that makes everything come apart . .. and there are a zillion little screws all of different lengths and some that are hidden under various layers of parts .. Forget about putting the right length screw in the right hole when you reassemble the unit .
So you take off the top layer of plastic and then you have four or five ribbon cable push lock connectors which you have to figure out how to unlock to remove the display and the keyboard .
Most of the time the hard drive is easy to remove after you get the keyboard off but some of them put the hard drive under the mother board and you you have to take the entire case apart .. CPU cooling fans are also mysterious things to get out of the metal castings .. They must be one of those never fails parts but of course they are the first thing to go . 😮 😯
No yesterday morning I just saw the Reichs global warming lunatics on C-span .
:banana:
was it the guy that wrote the book about how evil environmentalists are?
There was some guy with a bushy beard that looked like a college prof who was advertised as being a expert from some place in Europe.. I think the American Enterprise Institute must have kept him locked in a dungeon in the basement of there building .. 😮 😯
i dont know what the guy looked like just that he is evil……
I didn’t really mean waterproof laptop keyboards, but standalone ones (and they’re so cheap, I wouldn’t spend any money on one). Ruggedized laptops are definitely not cheap, but they’re more than just waterproofed, too. Itronix makes a line of them. About $4200 for one with a shock-mounted display and shock-mounted hard drive, dvd drive, a/b/g wireless, GPS, GSM/GPRS, 1.86 GHz Centrino. Not cheap, but not too horrible if you need it (or you spill a lot).
They’re all a bit different, but the hard part is figuring out which plastic shit pries off, and which plastic shit is held in by screws. And where they hid the goddamn screws (sometimes they’re under other access panels – what the hell’s the point in that?) Also, what order things need to come apart. And, yeah, it’s a good idea to lay out all the screws relative to where they came from. Never had to pull the display to get the keyboard out. If you do have to pull the display, you have to pay attention to how the cables are routed (like, the video cable and the radio antenna wires). Haven’t come across any torx screws (wouldn’t surprise me, though), but it helps to have the right size screwdrivers, and those little baby screws are easy to strip (both the heads, and the threaded part of the screw holes). Not a good idea to use a steak knife. Fortunately, they use too goddamn many screws in the first place, so you can afford to lose a few.
You can usually find a disassembly guide someplace (Dell, though it pains me to admit it, has very good ones all online and accessible) – especially for the more “mainstream” brands. Never found one for my Trogon S4, which had crappy contacts in the hinges for the video display. They wore out after a while, making poor connections, and making the display flakey at times. I used the “if I pull the fucking lid hard enough, maybe it’ll pop off” technique. Which worked, actually, but eventually I did it so many times that I broke the plastic on the lid. Still works, though. Just a bit sloppy. No WiFi back then either, so I didn’t have to worry about the radio antennas.
Dell laptops had a extra special failure mode where the plastic hinges to the display would just break .. Dell kept saying it was because we exposed them to “chemicals” but it seems to be rather common especially in the older ones . As far as I know there are no repair parts for this failure mode ..you have to just replace the display which cost about half the price of a new computer … Having the pinout on the connector would be useful because the LCDs could certainly be used in some lab test equipment or something ..
Seanie :tongue: Are you sure you are not in Seattle on Feb 13th?
Ooh, oysters and sake go good together! 8)
Oysters can lead to a gastric disaster too 😮
Never had that problem with oysters.
😮 😮 OH dear 😮 😮 Oh dear
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“Hospice care for the rest of us” is is not providing very useful information tonight :yuck:
There used to be this sea food place here that occasionally had somewhat under steamed Oysters that would keep you up all night :yuck: 😮 :fustrate:
It burned down under suspicious circumstances. I don’t know if that was related to their Oysters however.
It’s not Super, but Colts win NFL title
Eight turnovers, plenty of rain make it sloppy as Bears lose 29-17
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16979094/
ANV endorses OBillary as of Friday, February 2nd, 2007!
“Charisma at the top of the ticket: technicals at the bottom of the ticket.”
Part of why Bush took the White House in 2004 is that people think he’s “a guy you can have a beer with at a BBQ.” Cheney would never work at the top of any ticket. The DEM ticket in 2004 should have been Edwards/Kerry, not Kerry/Edwards. A charismatic Obama at the top of the ticket with a technically astute tactician like Hillary at the bottom of the ticket will win: a vote for that ticket will be a great vote for change as well.
About the winners…..
Everything is driven by money or the desire for more and more and even more of it .. That’s why pro sports sucks .. Why college sports is rife with corruption … hospice care for the raw raw croud ..
DLC democrats are 👿
AIPAC democrats are 👿
Hillary is both Edwards appears to of the AIPAC variety
Vote with your 30-06
:40: nobody wants my damn vista?
RE 52 –
Yes, Sean!! We shall take over from the midwest! I dub the new nation United States of Canadia! :yippee:
The hubby (King of Morons? Lucky me, this is a matriarchy…mwahah!) found a great google vid by Penn and Teller on the “War on Drugs”. :reaper: :bong: :reaper:
im leaving minneapolis right now going to go take over fargo!
when you get a chance Seanie let me know the answer
Good Evening All…
SBlueHeron it is nice to see your name … How Fare You? I should be contacting you and Roxie and … but I have to be sad for a few days I guess before ….. whatever the future holds. I WILL NEVER SAY DIE!
It is a shame people fight to hold on to their weakness. :no:
A.I.V.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-pharma4feb04,1,1856004.story?track=rss
Young doctors see drug makers’ freebies as a bad habit
Shunning gifts of pens, meals and samples of medications, medical schools are beginning to challenge the tradition.
8) Cool A.I.V.
Is there anyway I can have a CD track loop/ repeat or a song ON iTunes ❓ :pup:
a.i.v.
Tag Your It … I love that line from different times in my life. I am so looking forward to Thom’s show — hmmm interesting What if Marc had a show on NovaM at same time. :yippee:
Working :tongue: and a wee bit of lurking :hubba:
A.I.V.