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Hillary Rodham-Clinton is officially joining the race for 2008. If anyone out there is surprised to hear this, then let me be among the first to congratulate you for coming out of that coma youve been in for the past several years! Welcome back!

Sorry, Hil, but your pro-war, slightly toooooo conservative middle of the roadism, and waffling (as well as several other things youve done that have annoyed me since youve become a Senator) are forcing my hand. You still can’t come right out and admit that you were an idiot for supporting the invasion of Iraq. I have a really serious problem with that. I loved you, and I still admire you, and I want to support you, but Al’s got my vote unless you start showing a lot more of the liberalism and common sense youve shown in the past. You never were the leftiest of the left, but you were a hell of a lot more left than you are now. I dont hope you lose, but if Al runs, he’s got my vote.

In fact, youre getting so far to the right of middle that right now you’re not even blue anymore - youre purple. And that’s just a little bit too much red for me in this climate. At this point, we need all the blue we can get just to clear up this fucking mess that Chimpy McFuckwit and his ilk have made. Then we can go back to middle of the road politics, where we take the best of both sides and make the correct choices, the way it’s supposed to be.

Actually, Obama had my vote before those stupid beach pics came up and he acted like a convent school girl over them, and practically cried in public. Any public figure who gets that upset about his nipples being photographed while he’s on a goddamn beach swimming in the sea doesnt sit well with me. If youre that much of a pussy with a harmless, perfectly normal photograph, what the hell are you going to do when an entire Senate full of right wing hawks converges on you? I shudder to even consider it. We need someone who will push back at these guys and stand his (or her) ground, not a puling little sissy that goes down like a hooker at a gangbang. I like Barack Obama and I foresee a great potential in him. I heartily support a great many of his views and ideas (not all, but most), but something about him just puts me slightly off.

I dont like the slippery way he answers questions; his responses are often formed to be as non-offensive as possible, and as far as the things I’ve heard that he’s said, he seems extremely unwilling to ever make a definitive statement that places blame or responsibility on anyone for anything, regardless of how atrocious. He is one of those guys who says let’s focus on the future and not worry so much about placing blame. The thing is, placing blame is mandatory if you ever expect to get rid of the rampant corruption we’ve got going in Washington right now. Without placing blame, you let the bad guys go. Without placing blame and forcing people to take responsibility for the things they do, you are basically just giving everyone a ticket to misbehave without having to pay for the consequences.

I dont like the fact that Obama is too reluctant to make these statements plainly, clearly, and unequivocally. I like that he states his own viewpoints about things, but if youre the President of the United States, part of your job is making sure that the government youre in control of is doing the right thing, and punished and removed when they do not…especially when they do the wrong things willfully. I dont trust him to do that. He’s too damn soft, at least right now.

As much as I’d like to be able to ignore everything else and come down to voting for a woman or a Black dude just because theyre a woman and a Black dude, I can’t live with myself if I do that. I’ll have to go with Al until either Barack or Hillary show me that they’re the better choice. I can’t choose a candidate for their gender or the colour of their skin. I can only feel justified in casting my vote if I know that it’s the most educated, rational, logical, coherent vote I can make, based on facts and records, based on performance and ability, and who is the best candidate for the job.

Plus, not for nothing, but since he’s already been elected twice anyway, I think it’s only fair that Al Gore should get to sit in the big chair for at least one term, dont you? In fact, he should just be defaulted in in 2008, really. How many times does the guy have to win the election before he gets to have his chance?

He’s grown a lot more personality since 2004. I hope he runs, and if he does, I hope like hell that he lets that personality come out. The more personable and regular guy he is, the fewer people will be intimidated by the fact he’s intelligent, and the more people will like him. That’s what it really comes down to in this country.

I just dont see us…the majority of us, I should say…voting for a broad or a brother right now. It’s way too forward-thinking, and we’re way too ignorant and repressive. And besides, you actually have to know something about their politics to understand what’s going on anyway. Since the majority of the voting public votes solely based on popularity contests, what counts now is how cool you are on the outside, not the content of your character or your politics.

*sigh*

Cant we pleeease institute testing for voter registration? Please?

For the record, as it stands now, my choices, in order:

1. Bernie Sanders*
2. Al Gore
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Barack Obama.

And any one of those guys for VP.

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*My dream team vote. I would die of delight if he ran, and probably explode on the spot if he won, but only after I cast my ballot for him. What can I say? I’m a hardcore Democratic Socialist. A girl can dream!

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Thank you, Dr. King.

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I just feel the need to take a moment here and say that Will Smith is Da Man and I want to lick him all over, even though his awesome wife can totally kick my ass, even if I could get near the guy in the first place.

That is all. Carry on.

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i’m still seething.

this is a test post. i’m trying to figure some of this shit out by myself right now because that wordpress bullshit got me so unbelievably angry that i’m not fit for human company.

this is a new little thing i’m trying to include on the site but as you can see, it renders bizarrely. i’ll leave this post here in case someone from the site comes over here to take a look at what i’m talking about - i’m about to email them for some support.

hopefully they’ll be a lot nicer than the wordpress goons.

Edit: Saturday, 13 Jan 07

Well, I just heard back from Brad at indieKarma, and yeah, not only did he respond to me on a Saturday, which is very cool to begin with, but he was actually a very nice guy and explained what the problem probably was (snarky CSS), and asked for a week to try to sort it out on their side. He was totally casual penis. I approve highly, and because he was a nice guy I’m totally a fan of indieKarma. Plus they gave me a free dollar to start off with! Sweet!

It’s so much easier to be a decent human being than it is to be a raging, foaming cock, you know? And, I might add, better for business. Nobody in Bedford Falls liked Mr. Potter, but everyone just loved George Bailey.

Good luck, indieKarma guys! Let me know if I can help out somehow. And thank you for not being a dick to me, Brad. I’ve had a bad couple of days. Your being a decent guy, not treating me like an idiot, and giving me such a helpful reply to my support request really helped me feel a little bit better.

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AAAAAnnnd right in keeping with my firm belief that the WordPress “support” community is the worst fucking community on the Internets, my theory is proven soundly once again by its own members.

What’s funny is how I get called a troll and insulted for bitching about how fucking rude these assholes are, but if, for instance, you have a look at whoami’s past posts, you will see that he is pretty much regularly an asshole to other people all the fucking time. He’ll post in a thread just to do nothing more than insult you for not doing something the way he thinks it should be done. And then in his profile he describes himself thusly: “im not rude, im succinct. Dont want a straight answer, dont ask me. and while we are at, learn how to ask a question.”

lrn 2 rite nub. Jesus Christ.

He doesnt need to learn how to keep a civil fucking tongue in his head and shut his fucking mouth when he doesnt have an actual answer to a question, but you need to learn how to ask questions according to his specific guidelines nonetheless. Heh. He’s been on the site a while and he is absolutely typical of the type of “volunteer” that hangs out there to provide “support” to hapless users who go there honestly believing that theyll receive assistance.

Well, as I said in my posts there on that thread, I’m done with that fucking website and with that community. I’ll track down my answers amongst people who actually know enough of what theyre talking about to be able to give you some assistance if you have a question, instead of insulting you to make themselves feel better about being so ignorant and pathetic.

These guys are everything I despise about geeks wrapped up in a neat package. Arrogant, pretentious, condescending assholes who feel so lame and useless that all they can do is attack other people. I hate those fucking guys.

And for anyone who happens to be coming here from the link in that thread to either mock my website or myself, you are free to do so but remember two things:

- You dont mean fuck-all to me, because youre too stupid to live and I wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire, so your time would probably be better spent kicking puppies or whatever else it is that you get up to when youre not jerking off into a Dixie cup and drinking it because it’s the closest youll ever get to an actual blowjob; and

- Just because you volunteer your time does NOT GIVE YOU LICENSE TO BE A COCK. I know you think it does, but you’re fucking stupid, and you should save yourself all the effort of trying to think for yourself, ’cause you suck at it. Youre just wrong, and that’s all. Thinking youve got a right to treat other people like shit because you volunteer your time on the internet is like thinking you’ve got a right to stab someone because they took the seat you wanted on the bus. Do the human race a favour and kill yourself.

And whoami? Eat a bag of cocks, you rude, knuckle-dragging fuckwit. Calling you a Neanderthal would be an insult to Neanderthals.

I didnt get out of IT because of the users. I got out of IT because of the geeks.

I asked for a mod to contact me regarding all this bullshit but I dont expect them to. The only thing the WordPress “support” community is good for is taking potshots at other people from behind the safety shield of anonymity. When you actually stand up to them and demand responses and action, they fire insults at you from behind their barricades and then write you off as a troll. What makes me laugh is apparently they’ve got this new “Kvetch” system going in now. If these people actually cared at all about the users, they’d have responded to these complaints a long, long, long time ago now. This has been going on forever. Who the hell are they kidding? The people I feel most sorry for are the sorry bastards who are going to go there thinking that theyre actually going to get help.

MAN I’m SO PISSED right now!

Calendar links broken. « WordPress Support

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So! I knew it’d only take about a minute before I got tired of that orange thing this new theme had going. So I’ve made a few changes, primarily to the main page, to make it more palatable to the old peepers.

I’ve made it so that you no longer absolutely need to be registered and have a previously approved post to comment. Those measures were only in place because of the spam I’ve been getting hit with. However, since I’ve updated this theme and activated the Akismet plug-in, it’s caught almost 50 pieces of spam in just the past couple days and not one has gotten by. So I’m going to relax the restrictions for a while to see if anything gets through. Right now, the way I have it is that you need only supply a name and email addy to post; I’d like to keep it this way, and that’s what I’ll do provided Akismet keeps up the good work.

In the meantime, I kind of like the changes so far. If anyone notices anything heinously broken, drop me a line, would you? There’s still lots of stuff I want to do to this site, and since I have a new, working theme that doesnt have any insane code in it I’m able to make more changes and learn as I go along. I have pause here to say thanks and give a shout out to Kaushal Sheth, who is the guy who made the modified Fluidity 3C 1.0 theme that I used for this new layout. He took a lot of care to comment a bunch of stuff in the code and the CSS and that’s helped make it worlds easier to mess with this thing and learn as I go along. So that’s pretty awesome. Thanks, Kaushal!

Which reminds me - the calendar over to the left is broken in that it adds a trailing / to the end of the permalinks for each date. That breaks the link and sends you to a 403 page. I’ve made a post on the never-helpful WordPress forums regarding this, but of course I havent even received a reply, although this is a problem a lot of people have. As I’ve said before, I hate those motherfuckers over there. Theyre the rudest bastards on the Internet and they think their shit doesnt stink.

Anyway, it’s a matter of actually finding the bit of code in the php that runs the calendar that’s giving me the headache - once I can find out where it is, I can make it so that end / doesnt appear in there, and that will fix the whole situation. If you think you can help with that, I’d love to hear from you! Otherwise, you can use the calendar by just clicking any date you wish to peruse, then when you get to your inevitable 403 page, you just go up and manually delete that last / from the URI. Hit enter, and the page will load properly. I’ll get it fixed as soon as I can; trust me, it’s making me nuts and I am on a mission to find where it’s hidden!

Okay, I’m late for some incredibly boring work that’s due insanely early.

*sigh*!

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Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

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Fnord, old man. Give ‘em hell on the other side. And thanks for a wild ride. We shall not see your like again!

I’m so happy that in his last months he was able to rest easy and know exactly how important and valuable he was to so many people. I hope that it helped ease whatever pain he was in.

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Scooby’s dad, and the creator of The Great Gazoo, Astro Jetson, and Penelope Pitstop, among others, has shaken off this mortal coil and gone to that great animation studio in the sky.

Theyre all leaving us, these giants of joyful youth, and I see none rushing in to fill the empty spaces they leave behind. We have some folks who have promise, but it looks like the times ahead will be heavy.

On the other hand, we have incredible things happening with digital media. Perhaps the focus has simply shifted. Still and all, there is nothing quite like old school animation, and it is unutterably sad to me that this art form is slowly dying. Maybe I’m just a dinosaur, but I’ll take that celluloid stuff over CGI any day of the week, man. As beautiful as CGI can be, it lacks the organic flow and beauty, the tactile feel that celluloid animation leaves on your eyes and your soul. Or maybe just my soul.

Either way, Mr. Takamoto, thank you for making my life a brighter place to be. Thanks for making a stoner and his talking dog such a beautiful illustration of what friendship means the world over. Every human being on the planet knows who Shaggy and Scooby are, and they are so beloved that not even Hollywood could tarnish their memory.

And thanks for being the genesis of the idea behind Scooby Snacks. My dog really loved them.

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Incidentally, if you can’t see a title for this post, or if there’s just a bunch of boxes there, it’s because it’s written in the Japanese alphabet. The title for this post is what Google Translate came up with for the phrase “rest in peace.” (And many variations thereof, which when translated changed “rest” to some form of “remainder” when put together with “in peace.”) It actually reads “remainder of peace,” which is kind of irritating, but it was all I could find!

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Heh.

This is the best CNN headline I’ve seen in a while:

I just love it when someone takes a really good swipe at New Jersey. Smelly, rude, ignorant bastards. Theyre like the deep south of the northeast.

New Jersey really does smell bad, you know. It wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if this latest stinkbomb does originate from a refinery or something over there. The whole state needs to be air-sprayed with extra-strength Febreze.

Great headline, though. This should really piss off pretty much everyone in the state.

Well, the four percent or so that can read, anyway.

New Jersey sniffed out as source of stench - CNN.com

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Terry Jones puts on his green shade and gets his adding machine on.

They have made a killing | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited

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Okay, now I really do have to get to work. But I installed some widgets just now, for the first time - having an updated theme and all - and I have to say that I’m pretty happy with them! They seem like fun. I’m going to do some hunting around for more.

Also, I have to say that the documentation for WordPress seems to have gotten friendlier to use, with more information, as well. So maybe things this time around won’t be as infuriating trying to figure out. At any rate, I’m looking forward to it!

Huzzah!

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YAY!

I finally went ahead and backed up this whole blog (I’m usually much better at keeping backups; I’ve just been really extra-economy-sized blah blah lately about doing anything at all), database and all, finally upgrading WordPress (long overdue, but done at last), and finding and installing a new theme!

I’ve checked the couple of things that were egregiously broken, the most extreme of which was the total inability to actually see any of the posts anywhere except the main page - like when you click RSS feed links, for example, and come up with a blank entry (just the title and no post or anything). Just FYI, the same thing would happen when I’d be editing a post; the WP admin write window has at the bottom a WYSIWIG post preview that also returned a blank entry, just like what you would get when you click the RSS feed links. Apparently there was something in the previous theme I was using that was either missing or not coded correctly (maybe I screwed it up in my tinkering) that caused that to happen.

ANYway, this new theme appears to have remedied that unbelievably annoying bug and so all is well there, the posts can be seen on their own individual pages when you click ‘em, and my frazzled soul has been soothed - at least in that quarter.

Now that the thing is installed and appears to be working, I’m going to tart it up and mod it for my own tastes. I like the orange thing that the author has going here, but since it’s not one of my favourite colours, it’s going to get old pretty quickly. But that’s okay; I’ll have fun tweaking the thing to my preferences. I want to add some little widgets here that I’ve been looking into. I’ve found a whole SLEW of interesting little things that I want to shoehorn in here eventually.

Exciting!

Well, I’m off to do some scheming before work. If anyone notices anything broken or annoying (other than the content, in which case, piss off), please let me know!

YAY for new, unbroken themes!

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