Michael's Mind

True Colors

Leftwingers at "Democratic Underground" show their true colors.

Increasingly, to be a "Democrat" is to be a friend of despots, tyrants, and fascists. Oh, yes, and terrorists. Anybody but Bush, right? Even murdering monsters who target civilians. Pathetic.

They turn on their own

Democrats start turning on their own:
Soros Says Kerry's Failings Undermined Campaign Against Bush

Crawl like a snake

Here's a big shout out to my newest reader, tecrep-inc.net. D'oh, that's right, that's no reader, that's a referrer-spammer using zombied systems, probably looking for an open comment link so he can really spam me. D'oh, too bad your host has shut you down, you human garbage. Why don't you look for an honest job, like pimping 12-year old girls, or something?

UPdate 2-18-05: they're not zombies, they're open proxies. Sort of a volunteer zombie, or something. Some of them are clueless sysadmins who have left proxying turned on towards the internet, when they probably meant for it only to work inwards towards their LAN. Some of them are gettin gelt from the spammers. Some of them just don't give a damn if their systems are abused.

Green, green, they say

In his Current View, Jerry Pournelle (a science fiction writer I still hold in high esteem) says we should be spending large sums of money building nuclear fission power plants to reduce our dependence on foreign petroleum.

I completely agree. There is at present no good substitute for petroleum as a power source for transportation, and using it for power generation is borderline stupid. Building non-petroleum power plants will extend the supply for transport use.

I also think that any enviromentalists who try to impede the construction of modern nuclear power plants (which are much safer than the old breeder designs) by illegal actions such as blockading work sites or sabotage should be jailed, or preferably, shot.

Disappointment

I read a lot of science fiction. One of my favorite authors was John Varley, author of Titan. I pretty much admired someone who could write such a richly textured world. I bought everything of his I could find, and I'm presently reading Red Thunder.

Then I visited his website.

And now I have no respect or regard for him at all. None whatsoever. The man is a leftist fucktard of the first order. I think I will finish reading Red Thunder, and then find all his books that I own, and burn them.

And in the future when I see one of his books for sale, I might just hawk up a nice loogie to decorate it with.

Feel the Love

Democrats share the love: JS Online: 5 charged in election-day tire slashings

Leftwing Follies

Leftist Fucktards in Action

Uh, what are you hippie morons going to do when the Chinese Navy shows up in Puget Sound? Throw flowers at them? The degree to which lefties are willing to make complete fucking idiots of themselves is astonishing.

I wish the recruiters had just called in the Rangers to take out these imbeciles.

Why Bishops are Sometimes Morons

Why Bush Must Go, is a book by Episcopal Bishop Bennett Sims, proving that you don't have to be an idiot to be a bishop, but sometimes it really helps.

Here's his complaints:

Good lord, can't the leftwingers ever learn a new tune?

Cingular - the Website, the Service, the Phone

So I figured out why the Cingular web site sucks so bad - it's simple really, if I had spent 10 seconds analyzing the symptoms. I use Firefox, and the wretched Cingular site, a collection of javascripts, mostly, is so IE-centric that on Mozilla it doubles up on itself like a dog trying to throw up a basketball. (This metaphor revised from the original Southern version, which is much more graphic.)

I am reasonably certain that this situation is unremediable, and that the Cingular webwraiths will not spend one millisecond thinking about trying to get their site standards-conformant. Why bother? The whole world uses IE, right?

So maybe I was hasty in deciding to switch to T-Mobile, perhaps Cingular deserves my business for two more years.

I looked at my bill today. Twenty dollars in overage charges, calls I don't even remember making, plus eight-fifty in messaging charges.

Bye bye Cingular. Hello T-Mobile.

When Animals Strike Back

There is an ongoing outbreak of animal rabies in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Such Sweethearts

A quick R.O.P.(*) update, from the Houston Chronicle:

Now, how can anybody say anything bad about a religion like that? I ask you, how?

(*Religion of Peace)

Only in Louisiana

Only in Louisiana - the New Iberia mayor and city council demand stronger enforcement of a law banning low-cut clothing that exposes the underwear, conveniently ignoring the fact that the law was never passed by the legislature.

Too much bon temps down there.

Providence

Sometimes the hand of providence steps in to keep you from making a mistake.

My Cingular wireless account is going to reach its end of committment in a few months, and I want to get a phone with a color screen, like one of the Motorola V-series, for example. Since I have had this phone for 20 months, I can upgrade in the Cingular system with only another two-year committment.

So I go to the Cingular web site, and click on "upgrade my phone".

Then Providence steps in.

I hate Cingular. I hate the way the bill escalates astronomically when the allotted minutes are used. I hate that I get billed for roaming on accounts that have free roaming. I hate going to the Cingular customer service center to try to straighten out the bill.

But all of that is meaningless, in comparison to how much I hate, loath, despise the Cingular web site. My son's phone was switched from Cingular to T-Mobile a few months ago, and the billing on his account improved dramatically. And the T-Mobile web site is an absolute dream to navigate.

So here's the providence part: after clicking on "upgrade my phone", I was asked to log in so my account could be verified, after which I should have been offered phone selections and the opportunity to choose one, order it online, and have it in a few days, along with a shiny new two-year committment. I probably would have done it had the web site actually done that.

But what I got instead was a long wait and "connecting to myaccount.cingular.com" followed by the cheerful message "myaccount.cingular.com has unexpectedly terminated the connection". Three times. No frickin way it was going to let me in to buy something from them. And I remembered all the times in the past when that site did the same kind of thing to me, and all the rage and frustration I esperienced trying to get some information from it.

Bye bye Cingular.

Hello T-Mobile.

Ay Oh Ell Sucks

AOL has a neat twist if you decide to cancel your account - they block logins to their AIM service using the screen names from AOL. If you want to keep those names, they offer something called "AOL light" for 4.95 a month - sort of extortion money to preserve your screen name.

Oddly enough, I have a master screen name from an old AOL account that was cancelled, and it works fine. I am guessing this policy is a new one, implemented since they started hemorrhaging users.

Update: As if killing my screen name wasn't enough, now I am getting AOL telemarketing calls, trying to get me to come back. Uh, here's a clue - no chance.

Update: today (1/10) I received a nice letter from AOL which bigins thus:

Okay you lying sacks of shit, I did not agree to continue my AOL service. After spending 45 minutes on the phone with your vampire tech rep from hell convincing her that I really, really didn't want any of the 128 different plan variations you offer, there is no fucking way I would decide that I didn't mean it after all and you can keep leaching my bank account at $15 per month for a service I no longer use.

Keep it up, fucktards, and you will feel the wrath of my legal nazgul.

...And I'll Cry If I Want To

BUSH BASH BOOK BURSTS IN TIME FOR INAUGURAL

Christine Whitman proves the obvious - she's not a Republican, never was.

"...missed an opportunity to broaden his support in the most populous areas of the country"? How? By caving to the Democrats and left-wing extremists. Run play with the MoveOn crowd, bitch. We don't need you. Never did.

(The link above has died.)

Tsunam - what?

Glenn Reynolds spotted this first, and also updated the fact that these Tsunami pictures are bogus. They are pics of tidal bores on rivers in Asia.

Check the next to last photo. I think the Thai victims of the tsunami probably weren't laughing when the wave came in.

Update: