Next week, send your links to Shirley at Delaware Curmudgeon.
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 8:36 PM PST
February 29th, 2008
Around the Horn Friday: The New Edition
February 27th, 2008
LOOKS LIKE OCEAN CITY PD LEARNED A LESSON
The OCPD arrested a state prosecutor (elected) for DUI and a handgun charge. LINK.
Why didn’t the drunk SOB waive his elected official club badge?
Posted by Discourse in General at 8:04 PM PST
February 26th, 2008
Hmm…
Interesting. Just came home and checked The News Journal and found this headline: Judge Susan del Pesco to retire.
Fascinating. Just five hours ago I heard from a source that former governor and GOP-god Pete duPont has been wooing and providing information to Judge del Pesco on a possible run for governor this year.
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 9:26 PM PST
Around the Horn: All Around the State edition
We’ve got a new Around the Horn going on in which multiple DE bloggers will be participating. If you’re a DE blogger, send links to your favorite posts of the week to Joe Madjeski at Merit-Bound Alley.
Email Joe at jmadjeski@gmail.com with your favorite link of the week!
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 9:08 PM PST
It’s So True!!
This is hilarious.
I haven’t read all of these, but so far, they’re all true for me. Except for the standing still at concerts thing. I get my awkward groove on.
h/t Tyler Nixon
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 11:59 AM PST
WHAT SURPRISES ME
I haven’t heard a word about torture in the Presidential platforms or debates. If there is any one word that sums up the basis on which our country was founded, that sums up the protections we should have to protect our basic right to life discussed in The Federalist Papers, or embodies the attempt in our Constitution to prevent the strong from taking unfair advantage of the weak, it is torture: the abuse of power over another human being. Death is the penultimate abuse of another human being; it is torture, or the ability to make another human being wish for death, that is the ultimate abuse of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Posted by Discourse in General at 10:35 AM PST
IN DEFENSE OF DAVE
There’s a saying that any idiot can handle a crisis because you have no choice; its the day-to-day grind that gets most of us. Conversely, its the crisis that magnifies and illuminates one’s true character.
Atkins got pulled over knowing he was in the crapper. Instead of taking a justifiable hit, he pulled rank, he used his office for purely personal and disreputable advantage, and, after ‘missing the bullet’, he continued the behavior that showed rather comtemptable character in the first place.
My question to the incumbent public servants who condemned Dave for his condemnation of Atkins is, “Uh, and how do you two characterize the moral character of Atkins’ behavior during his crisis with breaking the law, especially in light of the fact that he was a public servant at the time and acting in that role by using his credentials to avoid public sanction?”
The follow up question is to the Maryland MADD organization who showed its character in its response to this incident.
The problem here is not Dave; its those who by condemning Dave, i.e., two Delaware legislators and the Maryland MADD, object to “one of their own” being punished in the same manner that the average Joe or Jane would have been punished in the same situation.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:50 AM PST
KENT COUNTY LEVY COURT
Someone named Kirk Albertson has a theory that the Levy Court has ruined the real estate and construction industry in Delaware: LINK.
It seems to me that the real estate and construction industry is suffering because of a nation-wide bust caused by too much being built and too much being loaned and no one funding this development fever actually had the money to pay for it. The banks can’t support the loans both commercial and residential and we’re left with construction firms, real estate investors, and over-extended mortgagees with a lot of debt and no where to go but bankruptcy (unless the government bails them out with our tax dollars). Kirk’s theory is that we should borrow more and build more and this will make it all better. Unfortunately, the banks are a little gun-shy about lending any more money which means that building more houses that no one is able to buy will not offer Kirk the cure he promises.
The real estate industry, at least in Kent County, should get down on their knees and thank Levy Court for the foresight they exercised. If building had continued at the pace prior to the election of pro-County Levy Court Commissioners the developers and construction firms would have dug even farther into debt building houses no one can buy.
We know that the real estate developers who have been saved from their own greed want to thank Levy Court, but its hard to do. No one likes admitting they were stupid even to the person(s) who saved them from their own stupidity. It sort of proves the maxim “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Posted by Discourse in General at 6:03 AM PST
February 25th, 2008
Nader, Ralph
Here shines the essence of Hillary. She stated today that Nader running “is not good for the country.” You know damn well that if Nader subjected the GOP to vote dilution, she’d grab the pompoms and tutu and cheer Nader like he invented husbandless orgasms.
Hillary
Has
No
Soul.
None.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:56 PM PST
HOW TO BE A REPUBLICAN
To be a Republican today you need to believe:
1. Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a ‘we-can’t-find-Bin-Laden’ diversion.
3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Viet Nam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
4. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
5. A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational drug corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMO’s and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
10. Global warming and tobacco’s link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
13. The public has a right to know about Hillary’s cattle trades, but George Bush’s driving record is none of our business.
14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you’re a conservative radio host. Then it’s an illness and you need our prayer for your recovery.
15. Supporting ‘Executive Privilege’ in perpetuity for every Republican ever born, who will be born, or who might be born.
16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960’s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the ’80’s is irrelevant.
17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.
Posted by Discourse in General at 6:14 PM PST
February 24th, 2008
What’s wrong with this picture?
From today’s News Journal: Someone “dropped the ball” in Lofink case.
State officials received a tip in January 2007 that an employee in the Division of Revenue was processing false claims for abandoned property and stealing thousands of dollars.
Eleven months later, they publicly confirmed a $1.2 million fraud in what is believed to be one of the largest thefts of state money in Delaware history.
Between the arrival of the first tip in January and a September halt to all abandoned-property claims, Anthony J. Lofink, the son of Rep. Vince Lofink, D-Glasgow, took more than $890,000, even as his supervisors in the Division of Revenue had been put on notice and an auditor was reviewing his work, federal court records show.
First person to figure it out gets a Scooby snack!
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 9:58 AM PST
February 21st, 2008
Sage Parenting Advice From Sudi Green, Esq., M.D., Ph.D, OB/GYN
Your Children are in Peril: Another Modest Proposal
By Sudi Green
Parenting Expert and Professional (kinda)Teens: undeniably, they are the future of our nation. They have the power to make change, to create new frontiers, to trail-blaze new opportunities for all of us. In thirty years, this generation of teens will be our senators, teachers, award winning scientists, and nurses emptying our bed pans when we’re old, decrepit, and burdens on society. Kids these days have so many possibilities ahead of them, but do we see them growing stem cells in their 9th grade science projects? Are they writing Oprah’s book club novels? Are they strategically planning buy outs of Fortune 500 companies? No! Something is clouding their judgment; preventing them from achieving the monumental accomplishments they are probably capable of if we just push them hard enough. But what is it?
The answer is simple ladies and gentlemen; sex. Sex, sex, sex. It’s all the teens do these days. I know what you’re telling yourself: “but my little boy/girl doesn’t do that! They’re a good kid. Plus, how could they have time for any of that stuff what with all the activities, clubs, and sports that I bog them down with and stiflingly impress upon them that they must do to be successes in life?” So naïve! Do you really think your Trevor is practicing his curve ball for the three hours you require each night? Oh no, he’s making whoopee in the dug out without a care. Think little Cindy is reading Balzac to the homeless like she told you? Wrong; she’s off willingly tainting her virtue. And bright-eyed Timmy? Is he staying after school to tutor the underprivileged kids in the ancient art of sand gardens? Definitely not! He’s out playing hooky and doing the hanky panky right under your nose. And when these kids aren’t off participating in the original sin, they’re thinking about it. All the time. Before school, when they wake up, when they go to sleep, in class, at dinner, and in church! No wonder they’ve become so lazy and good for nothing. Their minds are completely clouded by sin.
But can we blame our impressionable youth? Let’s be honest, sex is all around them, and we do nothing to stop this terrible practice from entering our children’s minds. Entering like a seed that eventually grows into an evil Venus fly trap, hungrily capturing morals in its green jaws. Plus, it’s not like we are lacking for information. We all know sexual urges at a teen’s age are just purely unnatural and freakish. I mean, no previous generations have been as sex crazed as this right? I know I never, ever, ever had, or even thought about, sex when I was their age. The problem is that when your children are asleep at night, evil little cretins called hormones enter their bodies and stake their claim. These terrible hormones cause them to break out, deepen their voices, grow them hair in funny places and make them crave that special kind of healing prescribed by Dr. Marvin Gaye.
Now you must be asking yourself, concerned parents, “but what can I do? How can I save my baby from the plague that is sex and those horrible hormones!” A just question, but to answer it, we must look at the source of the problem. We know hormones are terrible abominations of the body, but do we know where they come from? Pop culture. Hormones live in the sound waves of popular rap and rock and roll music. They reside in the screens of TV shows with Sara Jessica Parker. They hovel in movies filled with cleavage, explosions, and crude thrustings more commonly referred to as “dance.” It’s everywhere! The only way you can save your little devils from the plague of hormones is to block all modern pop culture references from them. Scratch their CDs! Smash your television screen, and you might as well start smearing that peanut butter in your DVD player right now. Lock up your radios and magazines! In fact, just lock up your children. That’s probably the safest way to assure that they never have sex or even think about it again. Just invest in some padded walls and libido suppressors (this kind of medication isn’t FDA approved yet, but I know a guy who knows a guy who can get them really cheap from Taiwan) and, before you know it, your kids will soon be hormone and sex free.
You’ll have to probably wait about six years for your teens to be truly safe from their sexual perversions, but when they come out of their little cells… I mean, rooms… they’ll surely thank you for saving their bodies and souls. After years of solitary confinement and hormone therapy, our future generation will be ready to buckle down, get married, and have moral, unpassionate sex, purely for procreation purposes, like normal people. We just have to take action now before sex chokes our teens and eventually sabotages our nation as we know it
Speechless. I think this girl may be a dream.
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 6:17 PM PST
Disgruntled GBC student hates rise in costs
A Goldey Beacom College friend of mine is pissed off. Pissed off that tuition at her school has risen by 30% over the past three years. She forwarded me a link to a report done by the American Council on Education that looks at cost spikes by numerous private and public colleges and universities around the nation.
She was just pissed off and needed somewhere to vent, so I told her I’d post it here. Thoughts?
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 6:03 PM PST
SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK
How many state run enterprises are plagued by management problems ignored by the administrative-political-appointee heads?
Health insurance is a highly technical business. Health insurers know what they are doing when it comes to managing care. Maybe this isn’t always good, but the claims managers know what the UCR (usual and customary rates) are and what is necessary and what is ‘bill-padding’.
If the State took over management of health care, and implemented a budget based on the annual amount of money spent on insurance and on payments directly to medical care providers, this budget would be spent in less than three months, leaving no one with health insurance. The State has neither the personnel nor the skills to manage health care.
So how about baby steps? How about screening programs? After the hurricane in New Orleans, many of the populace were screened for basic health problems. Huge numbers of problems discoverable by relatively inexpensive procedures were disclosed: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol. Why can’t we start with these cheap tests? Complete public take-over of an incredibly technical business will simply not work.
Posted by Discourse in General at 2:53 PM PST
CEMETERY POLICE
Senator Rose Henry is holding hearings in order to design regulations and monitoring of cemeteries. So there will be someone in charge of observing and enforcing “cemetery regulations”. With our tax dollars. Jesus wept. LINK
And this is the woman who said the torture at the State mental hospital was a bunch of made-up BS?
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:52 AM PST
February 20th, 2008
Well, Damn!
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t kind of happy.
I had heard of this from a rather reliable source before (if said source wishes to expand upon that, I encourage him/her to post a comment), and word is that his wife has been “returning the favor”, as they say.
Tell me, what does this mean in terms of drawing parallels to Uncle Bill? Has he just lost even MORE of the conservative vote?
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 8:09 PM PST
Richard Brennan Spins (Like A Record)
Are the world’s ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?
Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.
Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.
The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his “Inconvenient Truth” lectures about mankind’s alleged impact on the global climate.
Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years.
As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.
As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.
Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.
Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.
AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.
Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.
An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam’s northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.
In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company’s efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.
Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.
Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.
More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.
Temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.
If global warming gets any worse we’ll all freeze to death.
I found this posted in a Facebook note… I replied essentially calling it crap, but I’d like to know what you guys make of it.
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 3:59 PM PST
February 19th, 2008
PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPOROGGERBLOGer
We’ve heard each others’ schpiel for a while now. So if we were a government instead of a bunch of disorganized geeks with an unliberal sprinkling of party panderers, who would you vote for as our Elected Servant?
I figure about four candidates, each needing a nomination and a second (from different people Mr. P) to qualify, and then we’ll do a poll to see who wins the election. The nominiee/candidate does not have to be a blogger. He/she can be anyone the nominee likes/respects, as long as a second (from a different person, Mr. P) is received. For instance, Lucifer has never blogged on the Delaware sites to my knowledge, however one of the GOP crowd who obviously respects his campaign practices could nominate the Devil.
You are encouraged to give a stump-speech on why you nominate or second a particular person. Hyperbole and false-flattery is more than welcome.
I’ll go first. I nominate Mat Marshall. He is amazingly articulate for a blogger his age (would that make him a ‘pre-pubic’ servant?). His posts generate interest and responses. He makes me feel less guilty that someone is doing some work around here. I agree with most of his positions. I don’t think he’ll hire his relatives. Do I hear a second? Any other nominations?
Posted by Intercourse in General at 2:36 PM PST
In-Depth Delaware clip
Here’s the clip for the February edition of In-Depth Delaware featuring hosts Liz Allen and Karen Hartley-Nagle.
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 1:10 PM PST
DOES SOMEONE VOTE FOR YOU?
Do you give a lot of consideration to who your party wants you to vote for, or do you make up your own mind? If the former, do you bitch about lousy politicians even though you haven’t done anything about it? Do you defend your party’s elite by:
1) saying “Well, the other guys do it too”; or
2) ignore criticism about party members; or
3) rationalize behavior in order to show your loyalty to the power brokers supporting lousy politicians; or
4) otherwise burying your head in the sand except when you need to pull it out to kiss ass?
In other words, are you a follower or a leader?
Posted by Intercourse in General at 11:53 AM PST
An Ethical Question…
Am I plagiarizing anybody when I say that this is bullshit?
I find it incredibly ironic that Obama is being attacked by the now-imploding Clinton Campaign for PARAPHRASING the words of a friend, who gave him permission to use them. Oh, did I mention that those words were quotes? So is this like, second degree plagiarism?
The grabs at attacks are getting pathetic, really. I think we’re seeing a falling star.
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 10:19 AM PST
LEGISLATIVE MALFEASANCE or LAZY VOTERS
There have been a lot of posts about conflicts, self-dealing, nepotism, cronyism, and other activities that indicate that our legislators and other elected officials are perhaps not truly representing the interests of our fair State. The posts contain suggestions for controls to help avoid political activity that benefit a powerful few or related few. There has even been a suggestion that we create an elected office for an impartial observer to monitor and punish such behavior.
Lets throw that last suggestion away first. Making government bigger hasn’t solved anything yet. In addition, the ‘impartial official’ will have to go through the same political process as everyone else, making promises to those who participate in the political process. Lastly, a quick review of human history discloses few if any “impartial” people.
I think we’re trying to prove wrong Mark Twain’s saying about teaching a pig to sing: it frustrates you and annoys the pig. Our solution is not to bitch and moan; our solution is to become more involved in the process. An example of this approach working is the Kent County Levy Court. Prior to the last round of Levy Court elections, we had a group of Commissioners who pretty much rubber stamped rampant and uncontrolled development. Our solution was not to bitch and moan and demand disclosure of benefits to these old Commissioners for cozying up to developers; our solution was to organize and vote them the hell out, which we did.
We have another such opportunity facing us: the looming Democrat primary for Governor. Those of us in the party have been told that we should vote for the annoited candidate. We’ve essentially been told that we should not weigh the primary candidates on their respective merits but support who the party told us to support. My answer? NO. Markell has a remarkable business background attained solely by his own efforts, he is not tied tightly to the prior administration (in fact, its just the opposite), he does not appoint a committee everytime a poltical lobbyist demands stalling tactics, he articulates detailed, objective ideas for State improvement. In short, I am voting for who I believe is the better candidate to run the State. It seems more beneficial to get behind the good than to bitch about the bad. Go for it.
Posted by Intercourse in General at 9:52 AM PST
February 18th, 2008
Letter from Ezra Temko
I reported on Cab Calloway alum Ezra Temko’s run for Newark City Council a few months ago. Seems he’s now got an opponent, which means he needs more help than ever.
This note just popped into my email via my being a “friend” of Ezra’s on Facebook (a site that’s turning into quite a popular tool of political junkies these days).
Consider helping him out. Anyone at his age willing to take a leap and run for office is surely worth a couple of bucks.
Subject: Eight Weeks to Go!
Dear friends and supporters,
Thank you very much for the support you’ve given me over the past three months. Here are some updates from the campaign trail:
-We now have an opponent! While incumbent Frank Osborne will not be running, his hand-picked neighbor filed last week. I’m going to need to intensify my efforts to make sure we can turn a new page in Newark. I am running for city council because I believe I can make a difference. But I need your support to make it happen.
Please consider making a contribution to empower our voter outreach efforts with the resources we need to continue running our aggressive grassroots campaign. $12 will pay for two yard signs. $21 will pay for over fifty stamps. Every dollar helps. You can contribute online at www.EzraTemko.com/contribute
We also cannot make this campaign a success without all the time and support of campaign volunteers. I will be knocking on doors through the election. We will be making phonecalls to residents to let them know about upcoming neighborhood coffees. There are plenty of ways to get involved. If you can spare a few hours to help, please let me know.
We’ve knocked on over 1000 doors and I’ve enjoyed speaking with community members about their thoughts and concerns. This weekend we mailed a letter to the district about an upcoming city council meeting of great importance to our community. Today our yard signs and bumper stickers arrived! I continue to be excited by the campaign and by the prospect of being able to make a real difference in my community.
Thanks,
EzraP.S. What’s your story? How do you express your commitment to community? We have reported on a handful of dedicated public servants at http://ezratemko.com/news/committed-to-community/
I invite you to visit this site and to message me with your own story.
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 9:50 PM PST
Lunchtime spotting
Wow…Cosmos is the place to hang on federal holidays! A month ago my source sees Elsmere councilpersons Joann Personti and John Jaremchuk at the venerable Maryland Avenue eatery and now my source informs me none other than Elsmere’s troll of a senator, Patty Blevins, was spotted earlier today.
Question: Was she munching Thurman Adams’ ass or enjoying a Tony DeLuca sandwich today? And who was her guest? John Carney? Those ladies of the Senate Democrats LOVE them some John Carney!!
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 1:09 PM PST
February 16th, 2008
In-Depth Delaware, February edition
Tune in to Comcast channel 28 tomorrow at 3:00 pm. Hosts Liz Allen and Karen Hartley-Nagle will be discussing, among other things, wind power, Rep. Nancy Wagner, manufactured housing, campaign finance reform, and the Indian River Power Point. Guests will be Alan Muller of Green Delaware and former WGMD radio jock Randy Nelson.
Phone calls will be answered during the segment.
Posted by Mike Matthews in First State Filth at 11:42 PM PST
Catchy
Mike, if you could make these into videos, I’d be greatly appreciative.
This will nab her the 1984 nomination without issue.
One star on YouTube. I shit ye not.
[h/t Tim McBride]
5 Stars
Why didn’t they just use one of her speeches?
Oh.
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 5:32 PM PST
Lesson Two: Replacement Software
–This one’s a doozy, kids. Well worth it, but it’s a long read–
So you read lesson one. You either said to yourself, “Damn! That kid knows his shit!” or “Damn! That kid spends way too much time on the computer!”.
Either way, I made my point. Unless you’ve got some sort of a weird attachment to proprietary software (you freak), I’m going to lead you through some replacements. The majority of these will be open source, though you’ll find some freeware in there. Until an open source alternative is available, freeware will have to suffice. Don’t worry. These come with my stamp of approval.
Also, Mac users, you’re out of luck. I don’t know my ass from my elbow when it comes to revamping your computers. No worries. Windows users need it most. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Mat Marshall in General at 12:21 AM PST