Good Riddance ya Bums!

Crow Crow Crow! It was an almost perfect evening. After twelve years of abuse by a political party who's core belief is "Say anything to stay in power," Canada finally gets a government that will try to do the right thing. I say try, because there's going to be mistakes, and if you think our Liberal-appointed bureaucracy, Liberal-appointed Supreme Court, and Lefty-Liberal media are going be anything but sullenly uncooperative (and probably downright obstructive) you're an idiot. Such is life.

The Liberals are out, their token Albertan, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan lost her seat, former Prime Minister Paul Martin is resigning, and unconvicted jewel thief Svend Robinson (who proved you can steal more than just taxpayer's money with virtual impunity if you're a gay Member of Parliament) failed in his bid to con the people of Vancouver into re-electing him.

So what's going to happen? My wet dream is the Liberals pick a rich, insulated, upper-class non-representative Canadian to replace the rich, insulated, upper-class Canadian who's on his way out. Someone like, (snicker) Belinda Stronach. The only better (as in more politically crippling) choice would be an insulated, broke-minded and envious ivory-tower academic.

A minority government was obviously not the best result possible. I was originally worried that the Liberals would not hesitate to take every opportunity they could to topple a conservative minority government. That's their track record in the past, and it made Liberal criticism of Steven Harper's conservatives for forcing an election last fall ring particularly hollow.
But now that the Liberals are going to be tearing themselves to pieces in anticipation of a leadership race, and the other lefty parties are too tiny to interfere, maybe the Conservatives will be able to accomplish a few constructive things.
Hopefully Steven Harper gets the chance to do so before the rotters in the national media start their attacks... Naw, I bet he doesn't even get 24 hours.

( filibuster cartoon at the top is at http://www.filibustercartoons.com/archive.php?id=20060118 )

Winner 2006 Award for most Embarassing 911 call.

Voting day in Canada, so I'm not going to comment on the election or those lying thieving bastards the liberals.

One of my oldest friends, Vince Sanregret, told me years ago that back when he was working as an Registered Nurse, a night club patron was brought into the hospital after a traffic accident. The Emergency room nurses found a banana stuffed in the front of his crotch. Later, when the guy collected his personal effects to check out, some wag had placed a new banana on top of his clothing.

But that doesn't beat this one! My buddy Roger tells the story about the kinky 33-year-old UK housewife who went shopping while wearing a pair of vibrating panties. Paramedics were called to the Asda supermarket in Swansea after the woman had passed out in a swoon and whacked her head on a shelf on the way down. The EMTs disabled the device (I can hear them now... EMT#2 to EMT1: "No- You reach in there and feel for a switch..." ) and took the unconcious woman to the nearest hospital for a much-needed cigarette...

Bet she won't be shopping at that store too much in the near future.

More desperate BS from Liberals

Bad enough the Libs have been lying about the Conservatives all through the campaign, they've apparently sent a fake email to Conservative supporters purporting to be authored by Party President Don Plett.
The first I heard of it was thismorning, in an email from Conservative Party Campaign chair Doug Finley:

January 16th, 2006

Dear friend,

In the last day or two, you may have seen an e-mail message purporting to come from Conservative Party President Don Plett. This message is bogus; Mr. Plett did not send out anything of the sort. Radio CKNW in Vancouver has traced this e-mail to a server in St. Petersburg, Russia, and behind that to a Liberal-friendly source in Toronto.

In the final week of the campaign, our increasingly desperate opponents are likely to resort to more of these manoeuvres. Please keep that in mind if you receive e-mail that claims to be from a Conservative source but doesn?t match your understanding of our party?s policy.

Hold the course and don?t get rattled by our opponents? dirty tricks! Just one week to go till election day.

Sincerely,

Doug Finley
Campaign Manager

I wish I'd gotten the damned thing, but my computer was down last week, after falling victim to the windows wmf hack. I'd returned from a business trip Thursday to discover my machine had been spamming all day Wednesday.

ROTFL! Liberals?

French Military Victories

Wanna laugh your ass off? Tell your friends to goto www.google.com and type:

french military victories
and then hit "I feel lucky." Tell your friends quickly before google fixes it. This made my day. Thanks to Mrs. E.

No Paul, We do need a new category of Citizenship

Once again Canada’s Prime Minister proves that “Liberal” and “softheaded delusional pollyannas” are synonymous. 25 year old self-described terrorist Abdurahman Khadr, was arrested by RCMP Saturday in Scarborough, Ontario on a provisional warrant after returning from a trip to Pakistan. On Sunday Mr. Martin wasted no time asserting that Khadr’s rights as a Canadian citizen will be safeguarded despite his alleged links to al Qaeda. “They came to Canada many, many years ago, and we don’t have two classes of citizenship.”

Alleged? In 2001 Abdurahman Khadr was captured fighting in Afghanistan by coalition forces and held at Guantanamo Bay until late 2003. Afterwards, Khadr told CBC news that he lied to U.S. authorities to get out, and that his family was an “al Qaeda” family who considered Osama Bin Laden a personal friend. Abdurahman says he was trained in Afganistan as a suicide bomber. Khadr’s Sister, Zaynab, was arrested last February after returning to Canada from Pakistan with a laptop and DVDs with Bin Laden recordings and video of terrorist activities. Their brothers have all been linked to terrorist activities, and one is still in Guantanamo Bay for having shot and killed an American Medic in 2002. Abdurahman's mother, Maha said the family supported the al-Qaeda cause, but insist it was never an accepted part of the terrorist organization. Yet her husband, Ahmed Said Khadr, died in October 2003 in a gun-battle with Pakistani police. That same gun battle saw her son, Abdul Khadr, wounded and permanently paralyzed. Maha says that her husband was proud to die as a shaheed, a soldier of Islam.

But Mr. Martin says “alleged.”

According to the CTV news story the provisional warrant for Khadr is in connection to charges by U.S. authorities that Khadr is sought in Massachusetts for:

• Possession of a destructive device
• Conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the country.
• Conspiracy to use a destructive device against U.S. nationals and U.S. property outside the country

The U.S. attorney's office in Boston alleges Abdullah bought explosives, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and other munitions for al Qaeda at the request of his father, Ahmed Said Khadr.

Abdurahman’s lawyer says the warrant is a cynical and spiteful attempt by the U.S. government to get at his client. Duh. If he actually was an innocent citizen who just happened to have a family with a questionable past, he should be trying to live a exemplary life and have nothing to do with them. But he’s not.

There’s a twenty-five hundred year old parable, told by Aesop, about a farmer who found a snake one winter, dying in the cold. Moved by pity for the creature, he picked it up and warmed it at his breast. Once the cold blooded snake revived, it bit him and the farmer died. The moral of the tale is obvious to anyone with common sense. I suppose that excludes the Liberals, eh?

Let’s look at the Prime Minister’s statement again: “…we don’t have two classes of citizens.” What a wonderful idea Mr. Martin has raised. I’m certain it’d horrify him, but that’s exactly what Canada needs, a provisional class of citizenship for immigrants that can revoked if they prove to be criminals or, as in the Khadr family’s case, the kind of scum who willingly send their children overseas to train as suicide bombers.

Like many liberals who’ve spoken out against the American’s war on terror Mr. Martin is another Richard-head who doesn’t apparently believe there’s consequences to harboring a viper at your breast.

One of my favorite authors, Robert H. Heinlein, many years ago described liberals as people who: “believe that water runs downhill, but praise God, it’ll never reach the bottom.”

Spreading the Word

Microsoft's new firewall/spyware/internet security program, "WINDOWS SECURITY" beta One Care has been released and now two of my computer-tech buddies have weighed in. DON'T INSTALL THIS SHIT ON YOUR COMPUTER!
It's typical big-corp bean-counter bugs, -er features, in this thing are probably deliberate. Horde Leader the Mad Ogre, says it killed off all the non-Microsoft web apps on his test computer. The only things that were able to connect to the net were Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. Connectivity of his Firefox, Opera, AVG antivirus, and Spysweeper were completely Sabotaged by the Microsoft program. Microsoft said today that 15,000 suckers, I mean, 'users' were already using this software.

I get enough of this big brother attitude from my employer. The last update they preformed on my company computer loaded so much official spyware to watch my usage the effin thing now creeps like a 386.

J.D.'s complete comic strip is at http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050817

Thank God there's an Election coming!

Yippee! Now Let's kick those hypocritical, lying, stealing, self-absorbed bastards out!

IBM LIED, My Credit Card Fried.

Ok, it didn't fry. But they billed my card for a computer I didn't buy.
Last month we ordered a computer, and then changed our minds. I have an email from IBM confirming the cancelation, but the next month they billed me anyway.

When I called them to complain, I was given a different number to call. I called it, and got the EXACT SAME PERSON I had just spoken to. The bitch had actually tried to ditch me onto another call-centre worker. I'm fricken livid. She then tells me I had got her by mistake (yeah, no kidding) because I'd selected the wrong telephone menu choice. (I hadn't) She then said I had to call back, and choose the LAST menu option.
I did so, and got technical support. WTF?
I checked my cancelation email, and saw a Third number and extension to call. I did so. Turns out if you phone that extension the IBM phone system hangs up on you. I tried again in order to repeat the experience of being hung up on by a computer. I had yet another phone number on the email to try, and that one had too many digits.

Is IBM doing this as a matter of policy?

I'm calling the better business bureau.

+++++++++++UPDATE++++++++++++
January 25th: IBM admitted their mistake just before Christmas, and are going to refund my credit card. So they say. Just wait 4-6 weeks for processing. They had my money for nearly 2 months. I will be checking my statement to see if they included any interest.

Wrong is right. Up is down.

California voted last night in favour of the death penalty for unborn babies. Voters chose to defeat a proposition intended to help Parents prevent the abortion industry from taking advantage of their MINOR daughters. Their school teachers can't lay a finger on them without a lawsuit, but they won't be prevented from taking your daughter for an abortion without your knowledge. No death penalty in California... unless you're mom's pregnant.

France Discovers Appeasement Sucks - Maybe they'll learn this time...

(Image from Cox & Forkum)


There's a hoary old joke that goes:
Question: "How many Soldiers does it take to defend Paris?"
Answer: "Nobody knows, it's never been tried before."

By some accounts, the French are trying now. One person is now known to be dead, and the Islamic riots have spread across France and, according to some reports, Germany and the Netherlands. The foolishness of the post WWII politically correct ideals that allowed millions of 3rd world temporary workers to effectively immigrate to Europe without assimilating is now obvious.

I've wondered if France had, in part, opposed the second Gulf war in an attempt to appease their sizable Muslim minorities. Some news services are carrying stories calling the riots an Intifada, and I heard one radio interview last night that claimed the U.S. has communications intercepts proving this unrest is part of a movement to convert Europe to Islam through violence and intimidation. Nearly 10% of France's population is Muslim, and although many are 2nd generation, there's been little effort to assimilate.

Looking over the past century, there was one continent which managed to absorb a mass of immigration without rioting and widespread disorder. Canada and the United States each had huge territories that begged for settlers. And both nations managed to absorb millions of foreign immigrants without huge changes to their cultural norms.

The reason was Assimilation. As the newcomers arrived they, in many cases enthusiastically, adopted the ways and identities of their adopted nations. It's only in the last 30 years that the 'melting pot' concept of assimilation was discarded in favour of 'multicultural preservation.' Or rather, what began as multiculturalism has turned into an inadverdant but outright attempt to transplant damn near all the 3rd world animosities and conflicts into the 1st world, right alongside the people fleeing them.

You want to emmigrate to France? Become French. You want to live in America? Be American. I've seen reports of immigrant ghettos in Canada and the United States where after TWO GENERATIONS the ethnic newcomers still can't speak english. There are towns in France where Muslims are 70% of the population, and can't speak French.

France is paying the price. We're only a little farther down the timetable.

Sony Liable for Damages

OK, so they haven't been found liable yet. But they should be.

You may or may not have heard the news that Sony BMG has succumbed to the bean-counter's disease. It's that ever eternal quest of the accountant to promote penny-wise and pound-foolish solutions to insignificant problems. Invariably they make things worse.

Take the news this week that Sony BMG has been putting self-installing rootkits in their music CDs as a part of their content protection scheme XCP. It hides Sony's hidden monitoring program from the computer's owner, and is so poorly implemented that hackers are now freely using it to hide their own malware.

The first example I've read about is how losers are using it to hide their cheats from Blizzard's servers when playing World of Warcraft online. I've been vocally in favour of public beatings for these online cheaters for years now, but it's not that big of an issue for the rest of the world. It should be.

Rootkits have been around for a while. But thanks to Sony, there are potentially millions of computer users out there with their root kit in their computers. Every one of them will hide files with "$sys$" in their prefix. It won't be more than a few days before the less capable hackers out there are integrating Sony's root kit into their own small minded schemes.

Now we hear that Sony's patch to remove their rootkit is instead causing user's Windows OS to crash. Lovely. Incompetent f***s.

I hate lawyers, lawsuits, and people who use them. In most instances they've become an impediment to liberty and the pusuit of happiness. But in this case, I hope someone sues Sony's ass into oblivion.

The most evil man in America

(illustration from User Friendly)

Some asshat has figured out a way to end literature in Western civilization. This butthead has decided to patent storylines. Here's a bit from their webpage:

"Knight and Associates is the first patent prosecution firm to attempt to obtain utility patent protection on fictional plots. Knight and Associates consists of Andrew Knight and a team of independent contractors comprising skilled writers and experienced patent attorneys, ready to turn valuable new fictional plots or storylines into U.S. utility patent applications. "

Sure as hell there'll be a wave of bullshit lawsuits against bestselling authors as soon as someone can claim they had an story idea first.

In Dante's inferno wasn't there a pit in hell, where the damned were forced to wade chest deep in shit? Their mouths had been replaced with an anus, and when they sp0ke the shit got deeper.
Perfect place for this guy.

F******g lawyers.