I find this interesting.

Many TeaPublicans (TeaParty/Republicans) like to heap tons of disrespect upon the office of the President, and the current holder of that office, even though he was duly elected... twice. He wasn't appointed in a shady Supreme Court decision.
I didn't like Mr G.W. Bush. He wasn't elected to the office in 2000. The Supreme Court gave him the office. And we know what that lead to.  But I respected the office. When he was elected 2004, I still didn't like him, as he was inept, and totally unfit for holding the office, but I still respected the Office of the President, and when I spoke about him, I used his name, when I posted photos, they weren't defaced or covered with foul language.
This is where the TeaPublicans lose their high moral ground. When they use terms like "The Kenyan" or "Obummer", or "Barry" (or even worse extremely bigoted terms) they are disrespecting the Presidential office.  They they openly scream "YOU LIE!" during a presidential address (if anyone should have been censured, it should have been Joe Wilson.). During last night SOTU address, you had rabid TeaParty members calling Mr President vile terms. They also kept calling him a 'tyrant' and a 'dictator'. Sorry, guys, massive fail. If President Obama was the tyrannical dictator you claim, you would have been dragged out of there and shot.  Another made a rude noise and gesture, and stormed out (personally, good riddance to bad rubbish). 
And then today: revisionist TeaBorgs, called that because they sit around parroting RWNJ talking points as if they all shared a hive mind, nursing imaginary grievances, loathing the fact that a rich white man is NOT in the Oval Office.  Flogging the birther screed, and screeching IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH although the president has done nothing impeachable. But that little fact doesn't stop them from shouting IMPEACH to the rafters.
So now, after 5 solid years of GOP obstructionism, President Obama had laid it down, that he will use his Constitutionally Legal Executive powers to cut through the bullshit. Of course he didn't use the word bullshit, I did.  And now, once again, screams of TYRANT, DICTATOR, UNCONSTITUTIONAL (totally disregarding that President Obama is a Constitutional Lawyer) that such RWNJ luminaries as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc etc, keep throwing out there.  And if you call them their parroting FAUX  News talking points, they get all up in arms, call you a "libtard" or othersuch insult, and they double down if you give them leads to factual data that debunk FAUX and cohorts comments.
Is President Obama perfect? Oh hell no. There's a lot he should have done, that he didn't, some that he shouldn't have done, but did.  Caving in to TeaPublican 'negotiating' (Do it our way or we will wreck the country is Teapublican negotiations), and not backing his own plans because he hoped for bipartisanship. 

State of the Union, 2014

 

Wow..  I have to say, overall, it was a good speech, with a lot of information, and provable factual data.  There were two things that were ducked (the TPP and Fracking) that I seriously feel need to be addressed, and stopped.

The GOP/TeaPublicans have been but on notice that their "no business as usual" antics are no longer going to be tolerated, that the President will use his constitutionally legal executive powers, no matter how much FAUX Noise and Rush Limbaugh and the rest of that food group lies about it being "unconstitutional".

What I found telling was how many puckered faces when President Obama said "cutting subsidies to big oil", and "stop being on a permanent war footing".  I guess those politicians saw their bribes errr donations drying up. Tough. They're supposed to be servants of ALL the people, not just the ones that can afford to buy them and their services.

#SOTU is Looking Forward.

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Wow, that was fast!

The faulty 3tb Seagate drive arrived at Seagate repair yesterday. I have the email notification that it arrived and was signed for.
I just got an email from Seagate. My replacement drive is on its way back already. :) 
Now, I haven't gone all hausfrau, but my steam mop (with accessories) arrived.  It works great. That being said, I had to email them because:
1: The measuring cup was cracked in two places.
2: two of the 6 pads don't fit (yes, tried one, it kept slipping off, tried another, it kept slipping off. Tried the remaining ones, no problem.)
3: there was water already in the tank, and unless I find something or am told they're tested for leaks before shipping, this was supposed to be NEW.
Let's see how long it takes for them to get back to me on this.

Hmmmm

 

I used to be very active in archery. Even after the spinal surgery, I managed to get back to the archery range. Wing collected my arrows for me down field if my leg was giving me too much trouble.
Even before my 2nd trip to the surgery table, the club's long standing president resigned, and someone else took over. This someone else wanted to shake things up, and this is how:
1: He wanted every club member to have an archery rating (whether the archer wanted it or not)
2: He wanted to make the club a competition only club. Any archer who had a rating (read #1) had to compete with other clubs, whether they wanted to or not, or they would have to forfeit their memberships.
I never cared about ratings, nor did I see any need to compete. As a matter of fact, I only did so once, mostly to prove to a certain arrogant prick that "Yes, I can shoot, and I will out shoot you". And I did, and I have my 1st place medal. But after that, I had no desire to compete.
Now, another club I belong to (not archery) wants to do the same thing. They're proposing that all their members have ratings, and have them enter competitions.
I have no desire to be 'rated', or be forced to enter competitions because the club wants to compete with 'the big boys" (my term, not theirs) .

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R.I.P. Professor

Russell Johnson, 'Gilligan' professor, has died


NEW YORK - Actor Russell Johnson, who became known to generations of TV fans as "The Professor," the fix-it man who kept his fellow "Gilligan's Island" castaways supplied with gadgets, has died. He was 89.

Johnson died Thursday morning at his home in Washington State of natural causes, said his agent, Mike Eisenstadt.
89 is a good long run.

This might be petty

A few years ago, a whackadoo "Cleric" has said there are 40 words that non-Muslims aren't allowed to say, or write/type out. Oh really?

Here are the 40 words: Solat, Surau, Masjic, Allah, Firman Allah, Ulama, Hadith, Ibadah, Kaabah, Qadhi', Illahi, Wahyu, Mubaligh, Syariah, Qiblat, Haji, Mufti, Rasul, Iman, Dakwah, Wali, Fatwa, Imam, Nabi, Sheikh, Khutbah, Tabligh, Akhirat, Azan, Al Quran, As Sunnah, Auliya', Karamah, Syahadah, Baitullah, Musolla, Zakat Fitrah, Hajjah, Taqwa and Soleh.

So, now what?

This "no saying" zone is about as ridiculous as the more recent moron cleric that said female infants need to wear a hijab for their own protection to prevent men from lusting after them.

First Cull done

Took over 5 hours.

Filled both the trash cans (one next to the door, and one next to my desk) have stored things in some boxes, and generally cleared out a lot of clutter. Have to find a place for one smallish box of reading material. Maybe I should close it, wrap it in fabric and use it as a footstool.

The Conundrum of Cleaning

Attacking the clutter on the bottom shelf of the DVD/Bookcase. As usual, I made a worse mess than there was before I started. Sorted through and tossed old paid bills, already renewed policies, and other dated items.

Now I have to clean up my cleaning up. *sigh*

Contrary to the great weather

I have put the blanket in the clothes dryer
Why? because of... *drum roll* Cat fur! It's the only way to get it out of the blanket!

After testing with both Hard Disk Sentinel and Seagate Tools

The 3TB drive is well and truly kaputnik.  It failed the same way with both diagnostic tools. 














I have filled out all the requisite information, printed out a shipping label, packed the drive and power supply into the original packaging. All that is left to do is put it in a Aus Post shipping bag, and send it back to be replaced.  Turns out it's under warranty until Oct 2015.

Felt a bit like being in a time warp

Wing and I went out for another photoshoot in Northbridge. I found out why my Konstruktor SLR camera wasn't advancing the film, fixed it, loaded it, and took it for it's trial run.

I know I made a few accidental double exposures, as it's manual film advance, and you have to do it before activating the view finder. Oh well. I did notice that the exposure counter doesn't advance along once for each frame, so when I tried to advance to another frame, and it wouldn't, I just stopped trying.

Got home, took Konstruktor (henceforth to be called Konnie) into the windowless guest toilet, closed the door, put my hand over the lens, activated the viewfinder, pressed the shutter, and tried to advance the film. Nope, that was the last shot. Wound the film back into its canister and it now awaits a short trip to be developed. (Nope, no longer have a darkroom, nor do I really want one, not with the three purr kids)



The time warp was this: Felt a bit of discontinuity not offloading the images to my computer to look at them right away. :)

Why I get fed up with people saying "Our prayers are with you."

Too often, when there are disasters or catastrophes (flood, fire, volcano, earthquake, famine) you get all these people say "We'll pray for you."

Know what that does? Assuage the feelings of the person doing the prayers, and nothing else. Doesn't help the person left homeless because their apartment building burned down. Doesn't help earthquake/hurricane/flood survivors. It only soothes the person doing the praying, along with the "I prayed for you, so it's in 'God's' hands now." This way, said person self absolves for doing absolutely nothing.

I would rather see 1000 people out there helping then hear a million saying "O, I will pray for you." If they want those prayers to help, try sending $5, $1 or whatever to the disaster relief, or other organization that is getting aid to the people who need it, while they do their praying. Then, and only then, do prayers help.