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FreeRepublic ^ | Saturday, March 6, 2004 A.D. | SunkenCiv

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	Tuesday July 31 2007 1279 2302	I've watched side one of Gettysburg this morning. Technically, I didn't watch most of it, just put it on to play while I was doing other things (mostly surfing). I went back in for the Little Round Top reenactment. I'll probably do something similar with side two and the Pickett's Charge reenactment. It's pretty sad when a few thousand extras who have as a hobby Civil War reenactments do a better acting job than 90+ per cent of the professionals involved onscreen. So far during July 21 people have joined the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list, and only one member that I know of has left (same day, and banned from FR not long thereafter). I also had two new members for the Catastrophism ping list, and one who took a break for now. I did a bit more housekeeping on this page, revising the "target" tags for some of the links, and editing a few URLs. Links to FR pages seem to load faster when they're subdomain (or whatever it's called), and I'm all for that. My Amazon rank has fallen yet another two spots.

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	Thursday August 2 2007 1281 2320	If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People by John Hawkins, can still be found on the Right Wing News site. Germany and John Edwards -- along with a host of op-ed writers, including one for a monumentally important newspaper in Barbados -- are dead set against further US arms sales, specifically to Saudi Arabia. So, there must be something good about it. The Germans are worried about US inroads into another of their markets (since Iraq is no longer in the picture), and Saudi Arabia hasn't wound up with more weapons than population for just no reason. Silky Pony is running for President (or so he claims). On another FReeper's links page I found a link to a link to a link for a sound file (3.2mb, mp3, speeded up tenfold) recorded underwater of the Indonesian Quake which caused that tsunami that killed 100s of 1000s of people a few years ago. Listed as "Eerie", I found it a little bit on the boring side. Not to make light of such a disaster, this recording, looped, could make a nice "environments" type background. I watched the rest of Gettysburg, or at least played it while I was in the house. Melodrama sums it up nicely. The next night I put on Eating Raoul. Last night I put in The Spartans and konked out ten minutes into it. Last week I picked up garlic tablets. On the 25th, Scythian recommended a garlic extract, and while at the wholesale club for other things I hunted down what they had. The only thing I've noticed is the faint taste of garlic a while after popping the capsule. I may head over to the health food store to look for the specific brand. Yesterday Starter used the phrase Fortean Republic, which would make a great ping list name. But I'm not going to do it. Four is my limit. Well, four and a half. This is the second version of this entry, the first one didn't have the specific garlic links. :') Also, as usual, I haven't changed my tagline to reflect the revision date, and have posted once. Whoops, make that twice. And now we're up to the third revision of this entry, I screwed up the hit counter change and put in on the previous day. [blush] This page is getting unwieldy, so the plan is to offload / archive entries / versions in a blogger topic, and link to that. I figure that once a month should do it. Have a great August, everyone.

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	Monday August 6 2007 1281 2367	I know some people actually read this, and dynachrome actually admitted it in public. That's never a good idea. ;') On the 3rd I corrected a typo in the July 31st entry, where I'd said my Amazon rank had fallen yet another four spots. It was only two spots. Of course, that just points up the fact that no one votes "helpful" on my reviews with any regularity. And my whining here hasn't been particularly effective. If you think that means I'm going to stop, forget it. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine pays close attention to my profile here. It's kinda sweet, really. :') Yes, I'm an attention whore. That'll be $20. Feel free to use PayPal.

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	Monday August 6 2007 1281 2372 1434 40742	I have posted a total of 1,434 threads and 40,742 replies.

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	Tuesday August 7 2007 1282 2382	As I remarked here on July 23rd, former Robocop Peter Weller hosts Engineering an Empire from The History Channel, and I've begun to watch it again. This is a worthwhile four disk set, with three episodes per disk. Still no sign of my Amazon review. Some of the script which bugged me a little bugs me a bit more each time I watch it. The sequence of the episodes also comes off as a little odd, and it seems to me that chronological order, or roughly chronological order, would make a better presentation. Wish me luck -- I'm going to go out and vote against that sorry S.O.B. mayor of Grand Rapids. If there isn't enough to warrant a runoff, he will be unopposed on the November ballot. There are four candidates, including Jim Rinck, who I think is a Trojan Horse to split the anti-incumbent vote which would otherwise mostly go to Rick Tormala.

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	Thursday August 9 2007 1282 2402	I'm going through the desktop clippings (Mac OS here) to see what I want to use here, the main reason I saved them in the first place. For example... FReep this PatriotPetition: Free the Texas Three and Secure our Borders! Here is where indcons birthed the idea for his Military History ping list back in December 2005. So, buddy, what will you do to observe the second anniversary? :') Here's something I posted somewhere on FR back on May 6th: On Friday night's World News, Gibson explained: "When Democrats took control of the Congress in January, they promised it would be a new day. They'd get things done. They even had a checklist. Well, a hundred days after taking control, we've checked the checklist." Jake Tapper made clear how they've come up very short, pointing out how the Democrats "have no major legislative accomplishments to mark this anniversary. None of their 'Six for '06' campaign promises last year have made it to the President's desk." At least Newt's Contract With America was carried out -- here's the list, we will put each of these up to a vote. Sure, a lot of it didn't pass, because Newt permitted them to vote their consciences. But they got a move on and brought them to a vote. The still-stunned Dhimmicrats were meanwhile drinking 5 O'Clock gin in the congressional coat check room. Since when do politicians have consciences? [end snip] Also on on May 6th, I wrote, California and New York don't generally go to the Pubbies. The Republicans can win without them, but the Democrats can't. Denying either or both would finish 'em in 2008. Perhaps more importantly, forcing them to spend a lot of money trying to hold California would accompany their pushing their campaign rhetoric farther to the left and alienating the rest of the country. [end paraphrase] Related to that: GOP eyes California's electoral pie. From May 17th, from some FR topic, referring to Howard Dean: The EEEEEAWW! boy is feeling his oats, since his partisan media shills helped manufacture the Dhimmicrat victory in the 2006 election. And yet, we have a Commander-in-Chief who isn't backing down, who isn't acting like a lame duck, and who has a strong enough support in Congress to not have to worry about doing anything but watch the Dhimmicrats make themselves look more and more stupid and shrill. What will they do next? Raise taxes? "We're not voting for any more money to support the troops unless something is done about these terrible deficits. You know, we are the party of the balanced budgets, going back to FDR (whoops!)." I'll not be surprised to see the Party of Treason renew its call for a resumption of the draft, try to pass a tax increase, and abandon its efforts to exceed the Constitutional powers of the Congress -- the first two will tinkle off mainstream America as well as Pubbies, and the third will tinkle off its extreme left base. Another clipping from May 17th, another prediction: The winning platform in 2008 would be energy independence -- beginning with immediate relief (getting rid of federal retail excise taxes on gasoline, diesel, etc); putting a $10 a barrel tax on imports and exports of petroleum products (from crude on up); drilling the ANWR; doing a deep-drilling experiment or two; developing gas hydrate resources on the ocean floor; covering all irrigation projects (like canals running across the altiplano from hydro projects in the Rio Grande basin over to Los Angeles) to prevent evaporation (this saves energy in a number of ways); funding multiple approaches to fusion research (since no one has been able to do it, it's clear that more than one approach should be funded); funding multiple approaches to ambient temperature superconductor research; and passing a law making it illegal to join the Kyoto "accord". Here's a July 18th clipping, looks like a tagline idea: Fifth column helped by Fourth Estate. No film at 11. This year's second lunar eclipse will begin at 1:51 a.m. on Aug. 28. Most of the continental US will be able to see some of it, but it will be better in the west and north. batter has compiled and posted The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon, which is where I first saw the term Freeploader. I've edited earlier entries so that the DVD of Gettysburg is hotlinked to Amazon. Just added the link to the GOP/Calif topic and reposted this update. The third version of this update added the link where the Contract with America stuff was posted, it was the only one I could find. :') My next blogger topic will be one to archive the profile oldies.

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	Saturday August 11 2007 1283 2421	In a few minutes I'll be leaving here for the Apple Store to pick up a piece of software needed for a mangled hard drive b-tree. The Gods, Graves, Glyphs digest #160 got done on time. August is a third along, the end of summer approaches much too quickly -- as usual -- and I'm updating my FR profile. I should have a laptop with wi-fi and do all this crap at the beach. I ain't afraid of cancer. Have a great weekend, all. I'm offline for a couple of days, mostly by choice. Of course, my actions will probably belie my words, ere the dawn of Monday.

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	Tuesday August 14 2007 1287 2433	The software (ProSoft's Data Rescue II) worked slowly but surely, locating the 100s of 1000s of files on the hard drive and copying them to the outboard drive (150 gb USB 2). After I verify various important files, I plan to reformat the internal drive and reinstall the OS. While the software was doing its stuff, I wound up reading a book I recently bought used, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills. I've read most of it, and plan to finish it up this week. It's excellent, and I highly recommend it.

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	Friday August 17 2007 1289 2448	Newt Gingrich did his best work in the early 1990s. Now, he's just another Dhimmicrat: As an American, I am sickened that the political leadership of America could continue to go on vacation and do nothing," he said. "Why are the August vacations for the president and the Congress more precious than the lives of young Americans who are being killed because of government incompetence and inaction. -- Newt Gingrich Regarding the recent tempest about Madame Sarkozy's having blown off the Bush family (which is "on vacation") in Kennebunkport: I think this all just MSM supermarket checkstand stuff; there hasn’t been a peep out of the bastards about Sego’ and her husband’s split, and it isn’t because she lost to Sarkozy, it’s because the MSM was trumpeting her triumphant entrance. * The MSM trumpeted Sego's arrival on the French political scene, and kept quiet about the rumors that she and her non-husband (and alleged father of her four children) had split up -- allegations she denied during the campaign -- and after her defeat, very little, even after her book was published and the split was publicly announced. While new instances of President Sarkozy appearing in articles with the description "right-wing" or "right-winger" attached have declined in number, the partisan media offensive against him hasn't subsided, the target has changed. Certainly we can't attribute this to concern over the feelings of our own President Bush and his family.

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	Monday August 20 2007 1289 2461 1447 41290	Blam has been posting great GGG topics of late. I mean, he always does, but the quantity has been great. Just in the past hour I pinged topics on paleoAmericans, Phoenicians in ancient Sicily, Neandertals, and submerged cities. I formatted the eMac hard drive, reinstalled the OSes (it will boot 9 or 10), installed a few other odds and ends, and feel pretty good about things right now. Broadband is still coming out there, and I look forward to it. I'd like to think that it will get done this week, but have my doubts. Fixed a typo in an August 9th quote (italics) and added an omitted word in the August 14th entry. I have posted a total of 1,447 threads and 41,392 replies.

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	Saturday August 25 2007 1291 2485 1449 41581	FairOpinion got booted from FR some months ago, but asked to be kept on the GGG ping list. I've finally removed her name. Apropos of nothing, and as I said here on May 3rd, I plan to vote for the eventual Republican nominee, regardless of who that is. In a reply to Reform Canada, I coined this one: [future headline] The Global Warming Hoax — ironically, dead of exposure. On another forum, Texas Red sent an amusement I must share; it's more appropriate at Christmas, but that's four short months from now. If Good King Wenceslas ordered a pizza, would it be deep pan, crisp and even? In email, Val sent this paranormality (slightly edited): Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an Unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a Well-known UFO incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Government. However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day, the Following people were born: Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Hillary Rodham John F. Kerry William Jefferson Clinton Howard Dean Nancy Pelosi Dianne Feinstein Charles E. Schumer Barbara Boxer To paraphrase another redhead, let's give 'em somethin' to laugh about. My Amazon reviewer rank continues its slow decline. Don't you love me anymore? I'm adding the topics posted and replies numbers to the lefthand entry, and splitting the Amazon ranking and hit count to separate lines.

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	Sunday August 26 2007 1293 2499 1450 41659	My Amazon reviewer rank has slid to 1293, despite the fact that I've picked up some "yes" votes. Gimme, gimme. I coined Volcanimbeciles (analogous I suppose to the term "pyramidiot") in a topic about Thera, forgot it, and found it again.

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	Wednesday August 29 2007 1307 2509 1454 41796	Thanks Brujo for finding my error on a link in the July 23rd entry. I'm getting close to bailing out of here, for reasons I don't want to go into, but are well understood by my uncle Vladimir. That puts on hold my plan of building a little 'blog topic to cache these update entries, although that could be a nice way to sign off. My Amazon reviewer rank has slid to 1307, which suggests another reason to spend my online time somewhere else. I've got a backlog of unposted reviews which could help. I do think I've been victimized by another round of concerted attacks on some reviews, but it could be some new reviewers are getting some campaign help. :')

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	Wednesday Sept 12 2007 1291 2544 1462 42280	Thirteen of my reader reviews were removed on Amazon, and that resulted in a precipitous drop in my reviewer ranking. I sent feedback complaining about this, and while another one was removed, my ranking rose to 1291. I don't know whether that reflects more support from voters, but in any case, you have my heartfelt thanks. A new month, and I'm still here. Until Saturday the 8th I hadn't been swimming in The Big Lake (Lake Michigan, for those who don't know) in 2007. It was a wonderful late afternoon, and I was up to my neck in 70ish water for the better part of an hour. I got some amusement by watching the really stubborn guy wade back to shore to stick the umbrella back into the sand, then have to do it again after another gust. That time he realized he should just be dropping the umbrella until they were ready to use it. This summer sucked. Perhaps this analysis resulted from my own edified expectations. One thing we can all agree on -- my use of language has gotten pretty pompous these last six months. I still end sentences with prepositions -- and, as Long John Nebel once wrote, I will continue to.

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	Thursday Sept 27 2007 1294 2604 1471 42968	Happy Autumn, one and all. The election campaign never ends, eh? As we watch, the Dhimmicratic partisans' corruptions keep seeping out. Gushing out is more like it. The Dhimmicrats have been even less shy about pissing on the United States of America and our armed forces. I'd be surprised if there isn't more scandal before Christmas. There's a bogus "draft Gore" effort in California, which is a big state for the Demagogic Party, and there has been a move to divvy up the Electoral College votes for California based on percentage of the popular vote, making California a lot more Pubbie-friendly when it comes to voting for the President. Just to recap, I will vote for the Republican nominee for President, whomever that is. While we're on the subject, the term RINO doesn't really refer to politicians, but to the voters who elect them. You show good character by setting a good example and coaxing along those who make up the middle. The middle can move either way. Victory by the Dark Side moves the middle the wrong way. Handing an election to the Party of Treason, the Party of the Single Party State, is what happens when Conservatives In Name Only -- CINOs, how does that nickname make you feel, huh? -- plunk down on their asses and pout their way to the fringe party ballot entries. Let the Dhimmicrats split and splinter, and head off to Bloomberg, or Nader, or Gore, or Kucinich, or Ron Paul. We are not going to win every fight every time. We just have to keep on comin'. Thanks for your help in reviving my reviewer ranking -- after falling to 1299, today it's at 1294. I've got about four reviews I've got to do (instead of spending every waking minute outside of work on FR, IOW). Even my favorite FReepers sometimes... Back on the 19th, I found an interesting Mac OS prognostication from February 2004 by FReeper George W. Bush.

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	Friday Oct 5 2007 1298 2645 1479 43331	I guess r9etb coined salamikazes, but regardless, I laughed and laughed. Yet another "leak" regarding a U.S. timetable for the liberation of Iran was disgorged. Here's one thing I said: I'm sure this is just more BS from Kos. There have been claims that the US is going to attack Iran, along with timetables, for over a year now, and each one has been BS. Of course Iran is going to be liberated, and US forces will be involved. Some left wing moron has just concocted another using easily verified (or disconfirmed) details. Here's mine. The mullahcracy of Iran will be overthrown and the people of Iran will be doing the beheading of those Shiite-heads. The armed forces of Iran will be destroyed in hours or days by US forces, and the Arab / PLO thugs will make a run for the borders when their paymaster's checks start bouncing. This will take place as early as 2008, or as late as 2010 (IOW, in the next administration). * While looking for archaeological stuff, I found this lunacy: "In other words King David's tomb could be the ancient Caananite entrance to the Underground World - the lair of the Dragon, the physical location of the mythical seven roomed palace of the Saturn King, Satan - 'The Green Man'. Gehenna. Hell. The Chevalier Ramsay used to declare: 'Freemasonry is indeed the resurrection of the Noachide religion, that of the Patriarch Noah, that religion prior to any dogma, which allows us to go beyond the differences and oppositions of the various faiths[.]' Freemason, 33rd degree Solomonic Skull and Bonesman, George H. W Bush has done just that, resurrected the Judaic Babylonian Talmudic Laws of Noah, an all Americans are now become bond servants to Chabad Lubavitch, Bolshevik Soviet Jews Via Public Law 102-14." [unattributed, Southern American Marketing, Inc.] Naturally, the clown who scrawled that bullfeces included the fraudulent "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", along with a purported family tree for President Bush, and elsewhere claims that when Judge Alfred T. Goodwin tried to strike "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, he was doing the bidding of the President. Just to be part of contemporary culture, the clown's got another page called "The Lord of the Ring, the Return of the Talmudic king". On still another page the clown has a bogus graphic of Christ on the Cross, with "property of mossad" and a menorah carved on the crossmember. Crucifixion was a Roman punishment, because Jesus was executed by the Romans. Anyone, anywhere, who says otherwise is just a lying and/or ignorant a-hole.

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	Tuesday Oct 16 2007 1310 2681 1489 43797	The Temporarily Unavailable phenomenon here on FR is, in my experience, itself temporarily unavailable much of the time. I presume (perhaps wrongly) that the server generates that message when there's just a bit too much traffic. Generally all that is required is a click of the reload browser button. Blam's topic Long-lost, Dangerous Asteroid Is Found Again got me thinking about my favorite National Geographic video, the DVD version of Asteroids: Deadly Impact. Visiting the NG site just now, I noticed and followed a link to the gushing tribute to Al Gore and the latest atrocity committed on civilization. Former FReeper Right Wing Professor has the worst of scienceblogs.com, his weblog to critique "the most ideological, least thoughtful, most scientifically illiterate, most distorted blog.posts on scienceblogs.com each week." I found the link while lurking for about ten minutes over at Darwin Central. Nice to see how little things have changed over there. Must be uniformitarianism at work. Regarding Al Gore's peace prize, Darwin Central's RWA excoriates the Nobel Committee with "Not since Duranty won the Pulitzer...": They could have given the Nobel Peace Prize to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Paul Rusesabagina or Oscar Biscet. They could have given it to all the activists working for peace in Africa, Afghanistan and the Balkans. But no, they gave it to ManBearPig, in what appears to be one of a successive series of deliberate jabs by the Nobel committee against the current U.S. President. The Nobel Peace Prize obviously now has about as much relevance to actual peace as the Stalin Peace Prize did. Well put. I'll always choose A over B -- and as I said May 3, and several times since, I plan to vote for the Republican nominee for President, whomever it is. Zeno's paradox. It doesn't matter how finely you divide the changes. At some point, the offspring has to be a new species. -- frgoff

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	Tuesday Oct 22 2007 1314 2729 1498 44247	To save bandwidth, I've archived the individual profile updates into the topic Secret Handshake. I'll be keeping the current month here, and inserting links to each of the oldies such that it's possible to reply to them from here. :') Corrected a couple of typos that I noticed, and frankly I'm too lazy to tell you what they were, and you look too bored to hear any more details. RoboAl's Nobel atrocity has shaken loose, well, nothing really, other than amusement and bemusement. Here's me quoting me again: Photovoltaics work great, provided there is some kind of energy source available to process materials and manufacture them; that the DC is converted to AC to feed the existing grid; that overcast is limited; and that repairs for wind damage and impact damage can be carried out quickly. Photovoltaic efficiency is at its peak when the cells are new, and efficiency drops to a lower level soon thereafter. Given DC to AC conversion losses, overcast (and the fact that the Sun sets every day), efficiency decline, and down time, all of the electrical needs could be met using an array about 400 miles on a side. Then the cyclone hits... The entire array would have to be replaced about every ten years. But other than that... ;'D * There are plenty of claims in FR threads that there's no difference between Pubbies and Dhimmicrats. That is not merely stupid and ignorant, it's troll talk. More me, from another thread, emphasizing again what I've already posted on this profile page: The thing is, they were always all about repression, but weren't on the verge of absolute power before. In 2008, if they maintain control of both houses of Congress, and get the White House, they will, in a matter of a few years, have another packed SCOTUS, fill all the vacant federal judge positions with their creatures, crush all churches for spreading "hate speech", lay ppo's on all pro-lifer protestors, grab the guns, and impose massive new taxes -- beginning with a "carbon tax". I will vote for the ultimate Republican nominee for President. Period. * Will Media Matters Force Media Outlets to Correct Air America False Mugging Story? Trick question? Of course not. "Airhead America talk show host Randi Rhodes was reportedly mugged and beaten in New York City. Another liberal host, John Eliot, immediately blamed the supposedly brutal beating on a possible right-wing hate machine. Other left-wing media outlets followed suit. As it turns out, Rhodes wasn't beaten at all. It's believed that she fell while taking her dog for a walk." Hey, we didn't crack jokes about Rhodes having tried to walk her dog while drunk, did we? This was obviously just demagoguery, slander, and (since it was broadcast, and not referencing a public figure) libel. We really do need to file a class action suit against all who have defamed us by saying we beat up leftist trash. Political violence is nearly always by the left, as all-around POS and former Air America demagogue Al Franken proved during the 2004 election campaign. I wouldn't have been working for Lyndon LaRouche anyway, but if anyone ever lays a hand on me at a political rally (other than professional security, or the police)... I'm not a violent guy, and I'm an out of shape couch potato, but my attacker would never get to try that again on anyone. I am offended by the term, "white noise". The correct term shuld be, "noncolorized audio interference" -- Just another Joe

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	Thursday Nov 8 2007 1327 2815 1526 45116	Turns out I'm the last to know that Jim Morrison is alive. The reason I didn't know this is because it isn't true. Come on, baby light that liar. Ernest_at_the_Beach posted Crunch Time in Pakistan, and of course I pontificated, here it is: The attack on Bhutto's procession... was a coordinated, sophisticated strike consisting of a car bomb, a suicide bomber, a grenade attack, and a sniper team. The attack was carried out by al Qaeda, Taliban, and their Pakistani allies, very likely with help inside the Inter Service Agency, Pakistan's infamous intelligence service; the military is a possible participant. It resulted in the largest terror toll in the country's history, with over 136 killed and upwards of 500 wounded. ...and not a scratch on Bhutto. Either the car bomber, suicide bomber, grenade attacker(s?), and sniper team were the worst in history (or at least since the multiple attempts made on the Archduke Ferdinand, who was riding in an open car), or the attack was intended to politically further divide Bhutto and Musharraf, undermine Musharraf, and lay the groundwork for public support of the violent, bloody military coup that is coming. It hasn't been that bloody. Off and on, for over a week now, I've been getting these: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /focus/f-news/1918653/posts. Reason: Error reading from remote server It crossed my mind that these errors were related somehow to this topic: Al Qaeda Declares Internet Jihad (Free Republic is mentioned ...they don't like us). I rather doubt it. Speaking as an amateur, this looks more like overloading by the pajamahadeen. :') Our intrepid leader, Jim Robinson, posted Ron Paul = Hillary on the War; Rudy Giuliani = Hillary on abortion, etc with the JMHO proviso, the gist of it being this: Ron Paul = Hillary on the War; Rudy Giuliani = Hillary on abortion, gay rights, gun control, illegal aliens, etc. Neither are conservative. Neither are Republican. I would no more vote for the "Republican antiwar candidate" Ron Paul or the "Republican pro-choice candidate" Rudy Giuliani than I would the treasonous butcher Hillary Klintoon. Sorry Mr. Robinson -- I will vote for the ultimate Republican nominee for President. Period. I would vote for McCain over Rice (that sounds funny...McCain over Rice) because his public record and his voting record has been solidly pro-life. -- donprocto

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	Thursday Nov 15 2007 1330 2865 1535 45447	After posting last week, my Amazon reviewer rank actually rose for the first time in a while, from 1327 to 1328. The good news keeps rolling in, as my rank has again slipped to 1330. For Christmas, my fellow FReepers can give me 400 favorable votes, which works out to 20 favorable votes each from 20 individual FReepers. Registering as an Amazon shopper will be necessary, but that is not in fact the same as joining the Communist Party -- no really, I mean it. My hit counter for this page has risen by 50, more than seven a day for a week, so 10 of you can not do it, and I'll still be okay. Former FReeper Right Wing Professor's worst of scienceblogs.com page hasn't had an update since my first visit there. His last entry was Tuesday, October 9. Folding@Home is a Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold. Analogous to the former SETI@Home project, it uses volunteered, remote, IP-connected computers to process the data. I've wanted to participate for some time, but until recently didn't have a supported platform to run the software, despite the CPU clutter around here, and have no money to spare. FReeper texas booster is the coordinator for the FreeRepublic team, and says, "use 36120 as your team number and use your FReeper name as your Name ID". [snip] Folding@home hit a true petaFLOP on Sept 16. Then the PS3 folders hit a petaFLOP by themselves on Sept 23! [end] When I do my bootleg surfing at work, I use FireFox. I bring it up because I just found a clipping of this old topic. Here at home, I use iCab, running under MacOS 9.1 on a ten year old PowerMac 7600. I've upgraded the processor to a 1 Ghz G4, and may try to turn this into a dual-OS booting machine. The rev B iMac had its analog board go spla back in August, after having been on nearly continuously for eight and a half years. I've pulled the hard drive and have copied off all the files. Yesterday I finally updated the active copy of one of my GGG-related files, and have a few more to do. I also plan to purge my FR mailbox, then clean out some other mailboxes which are full of detritus. I guess we can consider this the cyber-stuff for my New Year's Resolution. When I surf under Mac OS X, I've generally used Camino because it handles CSS better than iCab. Using MacOS X may be something I begin to do more of, depending on this or that other development. I've got a G4 tower (a freebie) that I've been considering upgrading, as soon as I figure out what model it is, and whether it's worth it to grab a dual-processor high-speed upgrade, given the probable cost of such item. A coworker who is very much a "head" when it comes to golden oldies knew about the band Dada (not the newfangled one which existed in the 1990s, the original one from the late 1960s and early 1970s); I've got one track by the band, a non-cover of the Rolling Stones' "Last Time", on an LP called "The Age of Atlantic". The sampler came from the used bin at a now-defunct local record store chain called Crazy Larry's which used to be big around here. This particular LP also includes Yes "Survival" and Vanilla Fudge "Need Love". In the liner notes for "Yesterdays", Jon Anderson noted that the Yes version of "America" had appeared on "The Age of Atlantic", so I think this one is an oddball, or possibly I'm just forgetful, and definitely too lazy to walk the six feet across the room in order to check it out. Anyway, I'm looking for that Dada album on CD, and not a bootleg CD. I'm not looking that hard, mind you, but this is the time of the year -- the Christmas shopping season -- during which nearly every CD ever made becomes available for a short time. :') FReepmail me with any leads, and thank you very much. "Hey 'Civ." "What?" "Good luck with that one." ;') If we lose elections, none of this matters. -- mission9