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I know you keep telling me how nice you are, how compassionate, how loving. You have to be, after all your Founder told you that you had to be to get to postmortem Legoland. Well I don’t have a Founder so I’ll just try to be vaguely polite.  Which apparently your Founder left out of the master plan.

Check a calendar. It’s the table of numbers under the adorable Anne Geddes photos in your kitchen. I’ll wait.

There you go. It’s 2009.

We’re supposed to have learned a lesson or two in the last 50 years but in your apparent lust for 1880 you’ve missed the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the master class in capitalism being put on by China and the appendix in your civics textbook that mentioned the difference between economic and governmental systems.

So I’ll skip the full education you apparently missed and point out that your rabid Fox-News-inspired chants and rants against “socialism” are at best misguided and at worst the most hypocritical public posture since compassionate conservatism.

“He’s ruining everything our country stands for.”

Dimwit.

Let’s walk in your shoes for a minute. Let’s look at your forty hour work week and your Wednesday night deacons meeting and Webelos on Tuesdays and Church on Sundays. Community organizing and socialism. Every bit of it. When you plan that servant evangelism food handout for next Saturday what is that but a handout to the less fortunate?

When you drop your ten percent in the collection plate on Sunday what is that but socialism? Are you not pooling your money with others to benefit the greater good?

Of course you are. But then you can ensure that the socialism that YOU are participating in don’t go to none of them queers or libruls or (brown) illegal immigrants.

Now it’s your turn. Explain the compassion to me again?

I highly doubt this is real.

A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph.

First off, if the headline of the story was real, this kid would  either have had his arm ripped off from for force or be deader than a door nail(probably both). Small pebble at 30k mph? According to NASA, a fleck of paint can pulverize you. Here it is straight from the horses mouth:

Some of the bits and pieces scream along at 17,500 mph………

Some of the objects, baseball-sized and bigger, could threaten the lives of astronauts in a space shuttle or the International Space Station. As an example of the hazard, a tiny speck of paint from a satellite once dug a pit in a space shuttle window nearly a quarter-inch wide.

I don’t wanna jump to conclusions, but I will anyway. If a meteor really did land near to this kid, it probably just came close enough to scare the shit out of him and he got caught some of the dirt explosion from the crater in his hand. After pissing his pants, I’m sure he convinced himself he got hit directly. Notice there were no witnesses?

I’m calling bullshit on this one. What do you think? Who’s with me?

Got an old first generation MiniStack with a 250GB hard drive in it. Sweet, TimeMachine here I come.

Yea, OSX no likely the USB connection. When I try to format the drive I get:

Error with partition: Input/output error

Turns out 10.5 prefers Firewire instead. Formatted  as that and all is happy with the world. Good thing or it was about to get the sledgehammer treatment.

If you still get the I/O error there’s something else wrong and frankly I could care less. My machine works.

Nice video of life in 1908!

Ok, not so much, but our site is migrated to its new happy home.

BOW TO IT!

Here’s a shot right after the install, there’s stuff everywhere.

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It’s like learning to play all over again (probably doesn’t help that I haven’t logged in since June). Behold Phosphor:

Check out this chart via Calculated Risk :

Cliff Diving

Don’t forget, GDP is about 70% consumer spending/consumption. Start buying shit people, let’s go!!!

http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10086732-83.html

Interesting little tidbit. I’ve written about cyber security in the past. My hope is that Obama takes this stuff a little more seriously than the current “decider” in chief.

(Posted from Blackberry at basketball practice)