omgwtf!

Lightning and thunder! Here! Just now!

That’s so awesome!

Maybe…maybe we’ll even get…rain. And then all the little Angelinos will scurry for cover like roaches because they’ll think the sky is falling, and it’ll be on the news “Water! Water coming from the sky! WE’RE ALL DOOMED!!!” and there will be stories of 243-car collisions on the freeway and parents withdrawing their children from school until the madness ends.

I can smell the rain in the air right now. If it starts raining really hard, I’m totally going for a walk in it.

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Okay, Mike Huckabee is an asshole. Viz:

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate and self-described ‘’recovering foodaholic'’ Mike Huckabee told Southern governors Saturday that an obesity epidemic could cause serious problems for the American economy, and even for national security.

‘’Today we hear a lot about the war on terror, how we need to fight it,'’ said Huckabee, who lost 110 pounds several years ago when he was governor of Arkansas. ‘’Let me ask this question: Who’s going to fight it in the future if we’re a generation so sick that we don’t have the capacity to show up for work?'’

Obesity != zomgterrorists, you moron.

What the fuck?! I can’t believe anyone votes for these people anymore. Hell, I can’t believe anyone can still listen to them with anything even remotely resembling a straight face. This is stupidity so profound it borders on the criminal. I can’t believe anyone that idiotic is still actually capable of sustaining life without medical apparatus.

If these guys weren’t politicians they’d be forcibly institutionalized for being complete crackpots.

Huckabee Warns of Obesity Epidemic - New York Times (Registration required. Bugmenot.)

Full article posted after the jump in case the link borks in the future.

Also: There is no such thing as an obesity epidemic. There is, however, an asshattery epidemic. You dont hear anyone calling those guys risks to national security, though, which is pretty ironic, considering that they’re the greatest threat to national security that we’ve ever had. Hopefully, this dumbass box of hammers will will recover from his “foodaholism” by starving to death and that’ll be one less bag of cocks to worry about.

If ever we needed a revolution…

(wait, I can explain…)

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Because there is nothing else happening that might be even slightly more newsworthy.

This fuckin sad, pathetic town should be listed in the dictionary under “lame.” I swear it. It’s like a backwater burg that wants to be a real city when it grows up, and it thinks the first thing it has to develop is crime, traffic, and pollution. Then it can work on the extras…like sidewalks.

L.A. bus stops short, jostling passengers - Los Angeles Times

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Okay. This article made me kind of feel queasy and lightheaded and sort of disgusted, in a you’ve-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me way.

Are people really like this? Because if they are, that’s…that’s kind of pathetic and repulsive and idiotic, you know? They are going to go through life without experiencing a single thing about…well, anything at all, really, and what’s more is that it’s abundantly clear theyve got WAY too much money for their own good. I mean yeah, money is great and I would love to obtain a hell of a lot more of it than I currently have, but jeezy creezy what the fuck kind of stupidity is this, I ask you? This is way, way worse than this. Or this. Or even this.

How incredibly lame and sad. And I bet they think they have it good, too.

I’ve posted the full story below with a link to the article. It’s from the L.A. Times, which requires registration (Bugmenot) and seems to have a habit of pulling their articles after like 20 minutes sometimes. Article after the jump (if the above story link doesnt work for you).

Icky poo. I feel all dirty now.

(wait, I can explain…)

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Update - 21 August 2007

Well, I’m going to cancel my BlueHost account and possibly move over to Lunarpages instead. BlueHost has a weird no-nudity-even-for-art policy that really rankles me that I didnt know about until I forked over a C-note, and also they seem to be having a lot of trouble with their CPU limit being set so low that some people can’t even run a WordPress installation on it. Apparently if you use any scripts and the script code is sloppy you trip the CPU load limit and your site gets blacked out for a little while. You also can’t do any backups of any size without tripping it, either. And also there are rumblings of email problems with BlueHost customers as well. These things have made me leery!

And finally, though their tech support is highly available and very responsive, their forums are nowhere near as awesome as the Lunarpages forums are - and one of the mods at the BlueHost forums is actually breathtakingly rude.

So this combination of factors has led to my calling BlueHost to get my money back and then I’ll go over to Lunarpages - $30 less for more features and what looks like better support, though BlueHost was very, very good. If they turn out to suck they also have a 30-day full refund guarantee, like BlueHost - and then I’ll just stick with the host I have now until I can find something better.

Also, Lunarpages accepts adult content - you can host an adult site with Lunarpages - and I heartily approve of this.

Because fuck censorship.

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So I went and registered a new domain today so I can use it strictly for business purposes, and went looking for a new host. The guys I’ve been with for years now, Rackhost.net, are really awesome. I have no complaints at all about their service and I will say right now that their tech support is amazing. John Q is the best. I hate to leave them.

But I did a quick search ’round the ‘tubes and found BlueHost.com, who are apparently one of the best host providers anywhere. Their tech support is rumoured to be excellent and they have a ton of features and services with each account, not to mention a shitload of bandwidth and disk storage. Plus, I can host unlimited domains with them - so that means I no longer have to have separate hosting accounts for my domains.

It costs me $21 a month to host two domains with Rackhost and I only get a total of 12 gigs of storage and a few hundred gigs of bandwidth a month. For $8 a month with BlueHost, I got more features and a 350 gigs of storage / 3500 gigs of bandwidth. Clearly, though I have no complaints about Rackhost’s service at all, the clear winner here is BlueHost.

I’m a little nervous switching hosts because you just never know if the new guy is gonna suck, and boy, bad hosts are a real pain in the ass. But I couldnt find a single bad review about BlueHost and so I figured what the hell - it saves a lot of money, and I need to be saving a lot of money. Once I’m sure that BlueHost is reliable and trustworthy I’ll be able to launch my business-related domain too, and get my work stuff off sithly.com forever, which is good, because screw these friggin’ corporate Nazi web-surfing snoops. I want my work stuff totally separate from everything else.

This was triggered by just such a super-corporate, anal-retentive twat that bitched about my email yesterday. Turns out she was a dumb shit when it came to configuring her email client and when she went to see who I was by surfing over to my totally awesome home page, I guess she was scandalized.

Another victim Hoffed! I have the best homepage on the internets, man. I still get hate mail about it after all this time, people demanding I pay for the bleach with which they had to scrub out their eyeballs. I love my homepage. Sheer brilliance.

Anyway, in the next few weeks I’ll be switching this blawg over to the new host. Things should go smoothly (heh) but if the site blacks out for a day or two that’s probably what the deal is. It’s a good opportunity to try to tidy things up and put up a couple pages I’ve been sitting around not doing for like probably 10 years.

And, of course, my homepage is coming with me, intact.

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You know, I read this just now and got really excited for a heartbeat or two…and then I instantly narrowed my eyes and started considering why, exactly, he was doing this now, and what the hell he could have up his sleeve. The implications are enormous - and to be honest, I no longer believe we have ever seen the depths to which people like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney can sink. Every time I think something is as low as it can go they manage to double the depth.

I hate this fucking guy and I’m glad he’s going but that doesnt by any means have to indicate that he is gone.

What the hell are they up to now?

Karl Rove to quit at the end of August

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