Month: May 2014

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Uh OH! President Stompy foot is mad (again)

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I read the headline “President Obama is furious about White House scandals”

Then I thought, “Big Deal, So What?”

The President has been furious about each and every one of the scandals and DONE NOTHING!

He’s drawn lines in the sand, and red lines and when those lines were crossed he DID NOTHING!

Then I wondered what he was really furious about. Is he mad that the actions leading to the scandals are happening or is he mad that the Scandals are coming to light?

Fast & Furious – Gunrunning 

Secret Service – General Debauchery (what is it two or three scandals with them now? Hookers, drunkeness, gambling?)

GSA – Wasteful spending

ObamaCare – Flawed untested website that cost much more than it should have.

IRS – Targeting opposition groups to the Presidents party.

Benghazi – Yeah sure, we ALL believed that a badly made internet movie resulted in an attack on the US embassy (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

VA – our soldiers make it home, then are left to die horribly due to neglect. 

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If he’s so mad, why hasn’t President Stompy foot FIRED those who were obviously complicit in these debacles?  Immediate termination would be a reasonable response given the seriousness of the offenses.  

Why has the White House been so remiss in turning over documentation to Congress? 

The President has been in office for 6 years. In every single year he’s had a major scandal. In the past twelve months he’s had two.  

I’ve been forced to the conclusion that the President is furious about the scandals. He’s furious about having to deal with them and that his administration has become toxic to the Democratic party.

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Midterm elections are coming. Given the mood of the country we’re likely to see a number of blue states inch toward red.  

It should be interesting, unfortunately, I suspect that fixing the problems our country is facing will be delayed while the dust settles.

I’ve got my popcorn and alcohol ready for the next darkly entertaining revelation from this “Most Transparent Administration” in history.

In the mean time, is it channel 500 or 602 for The Roman Circus? 

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REALLY? Thoughtless Local Realtors making my life difficult.

IMG 0280This is an example of the kind of stupidity that we’ve been dealing with since our neighbor put his house on the market.

We have realtors doing this shit all the time now.

This guy is by far the worst of the lot.

If he’d just parked in the damn driveway he’d have had a 50/50 chance of letting ONE of us out. This way he’s blocked in all FOUR cars.  

The really annoying part is that he could have parked in front of our lawn, he could have parked across the street under the tree.

HE COULD HAVE PARKED BLOCKING THE DRIVEWAY OF THE NEIGHBOR WHOSE HOUSE IS FOR SALE.

But no, he has to inconvenience the neighbors. 

This moron is actually parked in the middle of the street, in addition to blocking my driveway.

We called his boss, he said to go make he employee move it. The point is, we shouldn’t have to go hunt someone down, so that we can leave our house.

Great job dumbass!

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You read it here first!

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Slightly over a year ago, I wrote a blog piece explaining that Adobe was going to a subscription model, and why I personally was uncomfortable with that model.

You can read the original piece here.

Yesterday, Adobe’s cloud blew up.

I was blissfully unaware because I have only local copies of Creative Suite and Lightroom. I haven’t signed up for the subscription services and don’t use Adobe’s Cloud.

The chatter on the net was that lots of people couldn’t work because the Adobe Cloud service couldn’t log them in. This single point of failure, resulted in their software being disabled.

I never anticipated that as a failure mechanism. I honestly expected a failure to occur with the download of the application or it’s updates.

In the original piece I did question what happened when the application “Phoned Home”

Does the software degrade? Or does the software continue to work until the next time it phones the mother ship then self destruct?

I’ve got my answer. Without verification, the software stops working altogether. NICE!

I’m glad I didn’t drink the kool-aid. I’ll hang onto my local copies of Creative Suite and never connect any of the programs contained therein to Adobe’s Cloud.

I’m very content having software that works because my license key is local.

I do wonder if it’s time for me to start looking hard at other alternatives to Adobe.

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I re-read this today.

Yes, I know it’s weird. 

I re-read The Constitution about once or twice a year.

When I was testing printers for a living, I often Printed The Constitution as a test case. It was my way of making sure that people who might otherwise have never read the document had an opportunity to.

It’s surprising how many people haven’t read it, and equally surprising how many people came to my cubicle asking for me to print copies for them. 

We should remember that The Constitution is a document that defines our government AND its limits.  

You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to read The Constitution. It is a remarkably straight forward document to build a nation on.  I’ve alway believed that the directness of the language was intentional, and the document was to be comprehensible to the general public.

I once had a grand time citing Amendment VII as my reason for refusing to enter into binding arbitration. I was probably citing and using the Amendment incorrectly.  Nonetheless, I did get out of the HR department of a company I worked for, without losing my right to have legal representation and trial by jury if it became necessary.

Allow me to introduce you to my friend,

The Constitution of the United States

Happy reading.

With gratitude to 

National Constitution Center

525 Arch Street

Independence Mall

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215) 409-6600

www.constitutioncenter.org

For producing a very nice PDF of this document.

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Silly Sheeple, Tricks are for Karl

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I’ve been amused for the past couple of days over Karl Rove’s remarks about Hillary Clinton.

The headlines have been funny.

Karl Rove faces backlash on Hillary Clinton remarks. Did he go too far?

Karl Rove Suggests Hillary Clinton has Brain Damage

Karl Rove didn’t go too far, he went EXACTLY far enough.  He manipulated the main stream media into propagating a discussion he wanted to put in front of the American People. He brilliantly used Hillary Clintons previous escape hatch from the Benghazi hearings to do it.

In chess this is called checkmate.

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Hillary will spend the rest of her Campaign (if she decides to run) answering questions about her health.

It’s very much like the Dr Who episode where The Doctor is angry at Prime Minister Harriet Jones. He tells her “I can bring you down with just six words.”

The words he whispers in the ear of her assistant are;

“Don’t you think she looks tired?”

She is brought down amid rumors of ill health and finally a vote of no confidence.

Life imitates art I guess.

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The Main stream media will continue to churn and regurgitate the question until Karl Roves part in the affair is forgotten and only the question remains. The question will take on a life of its own and will morph into an assumed “Fact” that Hillary has health issues and it will drag on her campaign.

Even now on Foxews.com there’s a piece titled

Clintons seek to show new vigor amid age worries 

Rove may be a Dark Lord, but DAMN! he’s good at it!

Hillary’s supporters spun up all of Tuesday trashing Rove, but in each and every piece, they explained what Rove said that made them so angry.  There was someone once who said  something like “Even bad publicity is publicity”.

The Hillary supporters, in one day, without realizing it gave Rove exactly what he wanted. Wide Distribution!  They can badmouth him all they want, but to do it, they have to repeat the message he wanted to get out. “Hillary may not be healthy enough for a Campaign or the Presidency.”  Hillary’s supporters are working for Karl Rove for FREE.

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Let’s be honest, isn’t the fear of poor health what killed John McCain’s run for the presidency?

No-one had a problem with McCain. The fear was that if he died in office, Sarah Palin would be President.

The Media had done such a wonderful job of character assassination on her, that people voted for Obama rather than risk the wild card of Palin being President.

Rove simply used the Democratic play book. I think the brilliance is that he’s gotten so far out in front, that Hillary’s campaign will be dogged by health rumors for the next two years.

Hillary can’t have so much as a simple cold.

I’m not suggesting that this is enough to end Ms Clinton’s campaign run, I’m saying that it adds stress to the campaign and that stress is going to be exhausting over the next two years.

I’ve no pity for Ms. Clinton. I don’t think she’s a particularly good person, and I think she’d be a really bad President. There are too many questions about her role in shady dealings starting with the Whitewater scandal and ending with the Benghazi attack.

Karl Rove may be a bastard, but I respect his brand of evil!