Sunday Music: For What Its Worth

By The Cardigans

My Week

So I brought a new hard drive for my XP computer, Plugged it all in and everything was going good until about ten minutes into the file transfer explorer locks up. I reboot the computer but it just doesn’t seem to want to work right, then it won’t boot at all except in safe mode. This leads me to believe that a driver has been corrupted. So since I’m running XP (and looking for an excuse to upgrade my computer) I decide its not worth it to reinstall XP and run down to the store to by Windows 7 and a new ASUS motherboard, AMD Athlon II X3 425 2700 Mhz processer, 4 gigs of ram, Nvidia 9500GT 1 gig video card (that I plan to upgrade latter), and a new power supply. I get everything home and start pulling out the old guts when I see that the whole problem was a loose ground wire to my new hard drive, I could have saved 600 bucks! No biggie I wanted to do this anyway. I put in all the new stuff, turn it on and begin to restore my backups and downloading NortonsAV from Comcast (its free for Comcast customers) when I lose my connection. I was behind but had paid most of my bill just a week ago, so I guessed that it wasn’t enough to keep them from cutting me off, and after doing the unplug,wait, plugin the router and modem/reset the modem thing a few times I decide just to wait until payday to have them turn me back on. When I pay my bill the guy at the counter says I did not get cut off, (I kinda thought this would happen) So when I get home I call customer support, tell them what I did and he ask if I reset the router (why would I, the network was working fine, it was just the internet that was out) Well that was it, I reset the router and I’m back… Long story short… (too late) never assume, it can cost you cost time and money. Not that I’m complaining, after all I got a fast new computer out of the deal and I’m ready for some of those new computer games I’ve been wanting to buy (command and conquer 4) (CitiesXL 2011) I just need the money…

Oh, and Merry Christmas, I got a new computer, what did you get :)

Sunday Music: Why Do You Love Me

By Garbage

Shirley Manson

good news

5 anti-Nuke Activist who 2 years ago cut thru 3  fences around the Bangor Sub base (Home of our Trident Fleet) were convicted today on all counts

A federal jury in Tacoma has convicted five anti-war activists who cut fences at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in November 2009 to protest Trident submarine nuclear weapons.

The U.S. attorney's office said the five were convicted Monday on all counts of conspiracy, trespass and destruction of government property.

I remember when they did this thing the local lefties were banking on the fact that they were senior citizens to protect them from consequences.

I’ll update with leftie reaction, if I find any…

You need a manual for this?

Sunday Music: Boomerangs & Seesaws

By Shannon Curtis

I had the pleasure of seeing Shannon a few weeks ago and made a video of her new song  “Book Of Fiction”. According to Shannon’s Facebook this is the first ever recording of the song.

more…

How could they,

How could those mean nasty republicans hold the middleclass tax cuts hostage?

After all didn’t the democrats spend the last 8 years telling us there were no middleclass tax cut?

You find one you’ll find the other…

Islamist and Communist…

see below

Sick Day

Maybe two…

Prayers and home made chicken soup with dumplings welcome

Well blow me down

Here is just another in a long line of environmental schizophrenia.

We have wind power in Texas they want to put up power lines to get that power where it can be used and sold, but because those line must cross a scenic canyon the environmentalist protested and had the line rerouted thru… a nature preserve.

While SondraK is down

Here is a little something I thought might help keep any lost porch monkeys occupied for a bit

The last person to bring up Sarah Palin was_____________ at _________________ While______________.

Be honest, it only work if you are honest

PS: “Gwillie”, “the internet”,”reading his blog” doesn’t count
Update: It’s only the main page that’s offline, if you follow the links in the comments you can keep up with the latest post, first report of outage appeared at about 12:10

Update 8:06 pm: looks like SandraK is up with a back up front page from 12/5 you can still do the comment hopping thing.

Update 8:18: Gone again, back to no front page

Up and running: Seems the software had a post limit just above 33k

Hey It’s Berkeley

Al Jazeera radio station comes to Berkeley airwaves

I’ll say it once more because it needs repeating; Islamist and Communist work hand in hand to undermine freedom and democracy, anywhere you find one you’ll find the other.

Quote of the day

Once upon a time a person didn’t have to worry about offending someone they have never seen, would not want to know, and likely will never meet.

Gwillie

City of Oil

I grew up in LA, I remember the pumps being everywhere and of course we have La Brea But now days its all gone underground… via palladium boots

This is a cool place to visit…

The other Leavenworth

Anyone who has served in the US Military knows of Leavenworth Kansas, But there is another Leavenworth in Washington…

So do you want visit?

Woody’s got the gig.

HT: Orbusmax

Sunday Music: I Don’t Worry

By Bess Rogers

Note: I’m using the new iframe embed, let me know how it works for you please.

All about Kinsey

Conservative women are hot and Kinsey Schofield sets the standard

Today's Racist Estonian

So if we here in America get to be called Racist for our (fully supported by facts) claims that Obama isn’t fit to be president, I wonder what this guy in formerly communist Estonia would be called?

HT: Theo Sparks, again

Boycott Amazon

It turns out that Amazon.com’s Cloud service is being used by Wikileaks to get around attempts to disrupt their publishing of thousands of sensitive diplomatic documents. A clear and blatant breaking of international law, an act of espionage against the United States of America.

WikiLeaks is finding some safe haven with online retailer Amazon.com following a series of hacker attacks, reports indicate. The anti-secrecy website, which says it's come under cyberattack since publishing a large collection of U.S. diplomatic cables Sunday, has tapped Amazon's cloud computing business to host data, according to the Wall Street Journal and other media.

An act that has resulted in a international warrant (wanted notice) for the arrest of Julian Assange the founder of Wikileaks. This is an action that can not be condoned by any American we must take action to force Amazon to cease giving aid to the criminal organization run by Assange. I also call for a boycott of all newspapers that betrayed the public’s trust by giving Assange a public forum to promote himself/website and allowing him to attempt to embarrass us by disseminating our dealings within the international stage, exposing only what is a vital and necessary part of being a world leader . Assange is a “stateless foreign agent” as far as I’m concern and those who aid him in his attacks on our nation need to be brought to justice and charged with treason and if convicted given the maximum sentence applicable. 

All this is void if Amazon has already done the right thing, The NY Times however needs to give up their source from Wikileaks and turn over any and all information they have on Assange and his organization.

Correction/clarification: The Interpol warrant stems from rape charges Assange has denied, These charges first came to light after the release of Wikileaks’ “Collateral Murder” video and it looks like they are just now getting around to charging him. Very Interesting.  I made a grammatical correction or two as well.

Update: At least two other bloggers are joining me in a call to Boycott Amazon along with a writer from the Seattle PI. (Amazon is based in Seattle)

Visit WyBlog and ConservativeHideout and read the PI’s Blog.

I learned of my compatriots via the Seattle Weekly’s post expressing thinly veiled displeasure at such calls.

Update 2: Amazon Boycott called off! Amazon did the right thing and has I mentioned above my call for a boycott is now void. But the New York Times is not off the hook yet.

Someone call CPS!

OK I know its just a game but while reading the list of latest update fixes for “The Sims3” I found this little gem

• Fixed an issue that caused Sims to leave their Toddler inside a bar at closing time.

It made me laugh :)

They start so young these days.

Sunday Music: Paris (Ooh La La)

By Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

‘Tis the Season

HT: TheoSparks

don’t let the thumbnail fool ya.

I warned you!

Sunday Music: I’m Ready

By Allison Weiss

Yes She was one of the three Beautiful Women I spent a few hours with last Sunday.

And I’ve already done a post for Lelia So I’ll just need one for Bess

A Handy Guide to…

The Female Body

or at least a certain part of it

HT: A friend of my niece via Facebook.

Quote of the Day

T.G.I. Every Single Day

Allison Weiss (look for her on Sunday)

Next time you fly

Fly Neckid*

*The official internet slang word for nude

HT:Doug at KisP

Taken

Drugs take everything, then they take you…

Lost a friend today.

Sunday Concert: Quest for Glory Tour

Here is Lelia Broussard singing Masquerade,

I’ll post more after work

Ok, has promised, Here is more!
Lelia Broussard Bess Rogers and Allison Weiss on the west coast leg of their Quest for Glory tour stopped in Seattle. They played in a very small venue with poor lighting, There was just no way I could take 400 pictures from the front row with a flash, but with the help of one of the three professional photographers*  I was able to set my camera to it best possible low light setting. The dark grainy look is kind of artsy (that’s what I’m telling anyone who complains)
Bess Rogers

And Allison Weiss


*I’m the guy in the blue shirt looking down (thru my camera)
Update: If you missed it don’t worry, all the videos I made are here its almost like being there.

Quote of the day

God watches over the drunkard and the fool. I’m doubly blessed

Some guy in a bar

Sunday Music: Stolen Car

Beth Orton

When I listen to Beth I can get so in the music I forget where I’m at.

235 today

Happy Birthday US Marines

Their current mission is the same as their first mission…

In 1805, the United States government refused to continue paying Barbary Coast pirates to refrain from raiding American merchant ships.  
When negotiations for a treaty failed, President Thomas Jefferson assembled an expeditionary force of Marines to respond.  
Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon and his Marines marched across 600 miles of the Libyan Desert to successfully storm the fortified Tripolitan city of Derna and rescue the kidnapped crew of the USS Philadelphia.  
The Marines’ victory helped Prince Hamet Bey reclaim his rightful throne as ruler of Tripoli. In gratitude, he presented his Mameluke sword to Lt O’Bannon.  
This famous sword became part of the officer uniform in 1825, and remains the oldest ceremonial weapon in use by United States forces today.  
The Battle of Derna was the Marines' first battle on foreign soil, and is notably recalled in the first verse of the Marines’ Hymn: "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country’s battles in the air, on land and sea."

Obviously the president is not a Kenyan.

Well that statement in and of its self seems not to be the issue, a kind of deflection from what was a truly embarrassing moment for our President in India this week,

There was an odd little moment with Spice Jet founder Bhupendra Kansagra when President Obama spoke to CEOs Saturday in Mumbai.

MR. KANSAGRA:  Thank you.  Welcome, Mr. President, to India.  As a fellow Kenyan, I’m very proud to see that you have made --
THE PRESIDENT:  Made something of myself.  (Laughter.)
MR. KANSAGRA: -- India as the focus of your drive for exports out of the U.S.
Obviously the president is not a Kenyan. One supposes Mr. Kansagra meant "of Kenyan ancestry" or something.
- Jake Tapper

No Jake, This President is not a foreign born national, He his the son of a migrant student from Kenya. But don’t you think its more telling that this President yields to his irresistible  drive to make everything about him?

In case you missed it

This is what Nov. 2nd was all about.

Sunday Music: Life was Beautiful

The Green Children

The Green Children  are activist in a global cause of providing low interest loans to 3rd world peoples to improve and expand their local economies. A cause I support.

The Green Children Foundation is committed to helping the poor of the world. We are proud to be working with Professor Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, supporting microloans, education and healthcare. In May 2008 we opened the Grameen Green Children Eye Hospital, which is working towards giving 10,000 blind people their sight back per year. Learn more about our work and the power of small loans to help the poor.

Finding the obvious

Two post from the Olyblog a leftist blog in our states capital, home of Rachel Cory and countless other far left radicals.

Although these posts really have nothing to do with politics or even ideology their placement seems to provide its own answer.

 first post, second post

Don’t slouch

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Not to worry, I neither approve nor endorse this President. I do however think the White House is great

This is great

OK I saw this yesterday but didn’t watch it till today, and it’s about an event that happened last year. But I think its about as brilliant as they come. Enjoy

HT: Theo Sparks

Don’t forget to vote

Because they are voting too…

 

Boo!

Here is a fun movie for a fun semi holiday, worth watch just to see Jessica Alba

or you can watch a Scary creepy clown.

Sunday Music: If you’re into it

Lelia Broussard and friend

This song is a cover, here is the original

Not really a Sunday kind of song but its fun and on Tuesday Lelia’s new CD Masquerade comes out so buy it.

She’s kinda excited about it too.

And yes I’ve done a Lelia Sunday, She's that good + I want to help promote her new CD to my 20 readers.

Update: Get Masquerade on iTunes now

Rally to bash the Teaparty

They called it the “Rally to Restore Sanity” but after this event I think they lost the high ground.

What wasn’t nonsense was anti-Right anti-Teaparty and anti-Fox news.

First the nonsense….

The anti-Teaparty

and the anti-Fox news

I have to admit some of it was funny, once you got past all the hate (see above). Some of it was cool

but mostly it was a rally not about sanity but rather about the bashing of conservatives though a series of standup comedy routines and poorly veiled references to things like “Witches” and “Crazy” and “tea”. No hearts were changed, no fences were mended.

Working on the Videos, Pictures are on Flickr.

Update: I’ve got 2 videos, about 15 minutes.