Because I Say So... Monday, August 25 2008
Because I Say So... Saturday, August 23 2008
So it's Smugs and Plugs....
Pajamas Media -- It's Biden! The Fun Begins
Biden is nearly as old as McLame so there goes the age thing. Biden's been a left-wing senator for 30 odd years, so there goes the change thing. Biden is generally a pro-war Dim so the nut-roots won't be happy. He has foreign policy experience, but is considered a policy wonk and shows up M'Bonga's lack of experience. He's been involved in some serious scandals that will re-emerge soon. He criticized the Messiah heavily during the primaries.
Probably a safe choice, but uninspired and not a big help I think. They didn't even consider Hillary. That would have been a better ticket...or she didn't consider joining a sinking ship.
So I guess I won't have to hold my nose and vote for McLame afterall.
For those of you who don't remember, it was Senator Biden who strong-armed the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill through the Senate and House in the summer of 1994. That bill had within it one of the key seeds of the "Republican Revolution" that was voted in that November. The Crime Bill was the vehicle through which the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was hammered into law
Because I Say So... Thursday, August 21 2008
I don't think so...
Living with humans has taught dogs morals, say scientists | Mail OnlineI've got a Border Collie smarter than most middle schoolers...but moral?
I think they are anthropomorphizing.
This dog would fuck a snake's mouth if it would hold still, and eat a slug's barf, warm or cold. He will kill any small furry he can catch in the yard.
Instincts and the fact that all dogs are wolves that never reach adulthood are more like it. They are bred to stay puppies (wolves don't play) their whole lives.
Children are not moral creatures. Dogs are loving and dependent companions, anything more is pushing the limit of credulity.
McLame ahead in Electoral Voting now...
Election Projection: 2008 Elections - Polls, Projections, Results
# Colorado: Weak Obama -> Weak McCain
# Connecticut: Solid Obama -> Strong Obama
# Indiana: Mod McCain -> Strong McCain
# Iowa: Mod Obama -> Weak Obama
# Maryland: Solid Obama -> Strong Obama
# Minnesota: Mod Obama -> Weak Obama
# Missouri: Weak McCain -> Mod McCain
# Nevada: Weak Obama -> Weak McCain
# New Mexico: Mod Obama -> Weak Obama
# North Carolina: Weak McCain -> Mod McCain
# North Dakota: Mod McCain -> Strong McCain
# Ohio: Weak Obama -> Weak McCain
# Pennsylvania: Mod Obama -> Weak Obama
# South Dakota: Mod McCain -> Strong McCain
Big changes in a week. McLame picked up nearly 60 electoral votes pushing him into a small lead over M'Bonga for the first time. State polling shows McLame getting stronger across the board, and M'Bonga getting weaker...in all instances.
Remember, at this time in past elections, the Dims were way ahead in all categories...and still lost. This doesn't bode well for the Messiah.
The only Northern liberal Democratic presidential candidates since 1964 have been Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry.
Comparing how they did in Gallup polling in July versus the eventual electoral result:
- Mondale and McGovern suffered swings toward the Republicans of 2% and 4% respectively, which in their cases didn’t matter much because they started and stayed a devastating 20% or so behind
- In the closer elections Humphrey (1968) suffered a July-November swing to the Republicans of 6%, Dukakis (1988) 16%, Kerry (2004) 9.5%.
In each case in the fall the Northern liberal's support fell off sharply, when the public found out more about them and the policies they supported.
As a Northern liberal (and he's a very orthodox, rather left of center one at that) this 40-year history suggests that Obama would need to have a solid 10% lead in the polls now just to have an even chance in November, quite apart from any racial considerations (which if they materialize on polling day may well cut both ways).
...and if Hil uses this to grab the nomination away from the magic messiah, I would ovulate* on the spot.
*Which I learned from Rachel Lucas
Because I Say So... Wednesday, August 20 2008
Because I Say So... Monday, August 18 2008
Continuing SMLE saga...
Part 1 of the Saga is here.Part II
Eventually the Go gage showed up, but useless until today...
The replacement bolt showed up from GunParts today.
I assembled it and picked up .010...not enough. The NO-GO still closes.
I stuck a bit of shim stock at the rear of the locking lug....026. When the bolt is rotated down, the shim (wedged between the lug on the bolt and the receiver body) was enough to push the bolt up just enough. The GO goes, and the NO-GO no-goes.
I don't know what more to do except put a bit of spot weld on the receiver body (or rear of the lug on the bolt) and smooth it to the right height so the bolt gets pushed forward enough. Unless I can find a vendor who will mike bolt bodies for me and generate one long enough.
I can't shoot it while it is doing this to brass.
Post of the Day...
A poll of nearly 2,000 Britons by YouGov/PHI found that 70 per cent of respondents incorrectly said it was true that the US had done a worse job than the European Union in reducing carbon emissions since 2000. More than 50 per cent presumed that polygamy was legal in the US, when it is illegal in all 50 states. . . .The survey showed that a majority agreed with the false statement that since the Second World War the US had more often sided with non-Muslims when they had come into conflict with Muslims. In fact in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the US has sided with the former group. Those conflicts included Turkey and Greece, Bosnia and Yugoslavia, and and Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
Asked if it was true that "from 1973 to 1990 the United States sold Saddam Hussein more than a quarter of his weapons," 80 per cent of British respondents said yes. However the US sold just 0.46 per cent of Saddam's arsenal to him, compared to Russia's 57 per cent, France's 13 per cent and China's 12 per cent.
Instapundit
Because I Say So... Friday, August 15 2008
Because I Say So... Wednesday, August 13 2008
Blogging has been light...
cuz work has been heavy.I've been installing Exchange 2007 mail roles on 64bit VMWare Virtual Machines. Layers upon layers of aggravation.
First I had to build 3 64 bit servers.
Then I had to install the Unix based VMWare ESX on each
Then each machine got two Windows Enterprise 2003 server VMs for a total of 6 VMs that all needed hotfixes and upgrades to handle MX2007.
Then I created a clustered mailbox server on two of the VMs.
I then created two hub transports required for mail routing.
The last two VMs got edge transport (internet SMTP) and OWA (webmail) on the DMZ.
All of the above required tweaking Active Directory in the Domain as well as our internal and external DNS servers, not to mention the firewall.
Each installation requires it's own brand of suck...most of which involve command line manipulation of shit no human should be required to touch.
So I get it all working yesterday and move a couple of mailboxes to the new 2007 from the old 2003 Exchange server. My mailbox being one of them.
Today I'm testing communication, and everything works fine...email moving smoothly thru the enterprise and the interweb.
Then I test the cluster by forcing a failover. What should happen is that the passive node of the cluster should take over the mailbox role when the active cluster goes down.
Gak.
The failover fails miserably, violently removing the cluster and the two mailbox installations from this earth...along with the mailboxes I moved to the new server.
So tomorrow I have to restore the mailboxes to the old server from backup.
Then I can start rebuilding.
