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My motherboard wasn’t the problem…but it has been since we (my son-in-law and I) fixed the computer.  Format your drive and watch your computer really have a fit!

 All those disk–the ones that you keep thinking that you will never have to use again–become a pain, they cause storage problems, and occasionally, the one you need  was thrown out, at some point, so that your desk, your closet, your top dresser drawer, your nightstand, or your CD rack would be a much neater site for those that visited your home. The truth is that for whatever reason, we threw out the disk that came with the motherboard and are now having to download the files to restore it to it’s “former glory.” My ethernet card does not show up anywhere in my files, and so, I’m on dialup again. Probably, maybe, sometime in the near future my computer will be working like a top and back online as a DSL machine, or not…Have a great day!!!

If you’ve ever doubted the control your computer holds over your life, then just let the motherbosrd start to mess with the rest of your system. We have an extra board, but don’t if its in eorking order. Believe it or not, I’m actually using our Wii console now and this is difficult. It’s the whole eiggly hand and silly keyboard thing.

Yahoo reports all things AP, especially when it’s counter to intelligent thought. The AP knows, as does Charlie Gibson now, that not reporting the “goings-on” within the ACORN group is no longer passing muster. So, in an effort to pass off a piece of news enlightening the public to the plight of the embattled group, they have penned a piece declaring the GOP as “choking off” funds to the Anti-poverty association. While videos are running all over the Internet that show ACORN representatives that have no problem with women “choking chickens” for a living, and some of those same representatives have gone so far as to encourage tax-evasion, under-age prostitution, and the latest-a woman of questionable character-that explained that she shot her husband, the GOP is choking off an embattled group of “do-gooders” from taxpayer funds. Hm??

Burris, Durbin, and Gillibrand, to name 3 of the 7 senators who see what ACORN is doing as a good thing, wanted to show their support for the illegal activities within the group by voting against removing availability of funds to them. How sweet is that? These senators whose job it is to see that laws are made to protect your tax dollars, are outraged that the money you work for will not be spent to fund under-age prostitution, and non-wifely companions to the millions in need of such services. As the wife of a man that is well serviced at home I see no need for ACORN to fund houses of ill repute so that perverts can wander-in “willy-nilly” and take advantage of young girls from El Salvador. Perhaps my conservative, non-liberal mind is confused but I honestly thought that we had laws in this nation that protected under-age girls from perverts? It is all beginning to make sense why the same group of liberals who would see honest, hardworking Americans starve to save a fish in California, would also be pro-abortion.

Granted, I should think that congress has more pressing agendas than to huff and puff and get all-tizzied up over ACORN, but Eric Holder should be tizzied up, ticked off, and investigating the flagrantly illegal activities of this group for fraud of taxpayer funds. However, Mr. Holder is too busy trying to prosecute men whose only crime was that they chose to protect this nation from terrorist. Geesh, I just do not get the whole “legal” and “ill-legal” attitude within this administration and congress.

Yugo Yahoo! My girls went to school to get an education and they work hard to maintain their homes and family, only to see the tax dollars their little ones could use being spent to fund ill-legal activities. Yugo senators, the rest of the United States would like a revision in laws so that we can all benefit from the crooks that serve the poor and illiterate so well. Yugo AP and mainstream media, because without the bulk of your work the nation might get uncensored, real-time, truthful news that is pertinent to our very existence and pocket change-we have given up on having a pot to piss in. While men such as Charlie Gibson laugh and call out the “cable news” station for reporting real news, the world is watching the fiasco unfolding in the United States. Gosh, you all must be so very proud to have reported on a dog that saved his owner from a bear attack while the nation is slipping further down the drain. Glub…glub…glub…

Thursday afternoon and evening, we experienced an act of nature that could not be avoided…well, it might have if our phone lines had been running through the surge protector, but it was-in the end-nature that shook this house, wiped one computer, two modems, and pretty much all access to the Internet. As luck would have it, the most temperamental of the computers survived the electrical charge that fried everything else, and it is that one computer that I use today-hooked to the slowest possible Internet connection imaginable. Before DSL my husband and I used this same connection unaware of how truly slow it was until we experienced the megabytes per second to be had with the newer connection. The point is that DSL is fantastic, but when it fails-the modem fried-the old standby dialup works; very much like the bills in consideration in the house and the senate today.

When government run programs perform smoothly, the wheels turn like greased lightening, the money goes out faster than the money comes in, the people who benefit praise the system while those that are lost (like our two computers) sit idly wondering how it all happened? When you live through the storm, realizing that it could have been worse (such as the lightening storm Thursday evening) you begin to appreciate the old ways. We are on the edge of a government disaster that would not have happened 50-years ago, because people had control of their lives and did not rely on the government to tell them what they needed. The old ways worked, the newer ways have involved massive spending, a deficit that cannot be paid off, and politicians that have forgotten what their jobs really are about. Like the power of the lightening that shook our house as if it were a rag doll, this government is shaking the nation in the same way.

Our DSL will be back up and running, but if not for the dialup service we retained for my husband’s office, we would still be without Internet service until Tuesday, possibly Wednesday, because the company that services our DSL no longer deals with the people. They have phone sessions that determine the line conditions, the DSL output, and the problem, and then prescribe a solution without ever really making human, or one-on-one contact. Our politicians in Washington D. C. cannot accept that the outpouring of people this summer, and again this weekend are representative of the American people, because they have held themselves in too high esteem-aloof and away from the people-and have forgotten what it was like to have a one-on-one contact with the people they serve. It’s time that lightening struck our senate so that they can truly appreciate what Health Care Reform should be, what it needs to be, before they assume a position of “all-knowing” care on our behalf.

If Obama gave the Health Care Reform speech tonight with the hopes of closing the gaps between the left and the right, he failed miserably. He could not stay off the blame game involving Bush, he outright called the Republican congressmen liars, and he failed to discuss specifics. At this point, because the debate has raged, I have read more of what is actually being proposed than Obama has and reading the bills (5 mentioned lately) should be his top priority if he wishes to have this monster pass in a bi-partisan manner.

He, of course did the whole bit on what Palin has said about “Death Panels” being a portion of the bill. Page 425, lines 4-12 of the bill now in congress addresses this issue. Read the bill Obama. Pages 425, lines 22-25, and page 426, lines 1-3 also address this issue, and not in a positive way. Read the bill Obama, because it is addressed in several pages and several lines. The problem with convincing the public that this health care bill will benefit them is his reluctance to address the specific issues in detail, including pages, lines, and what the doctors (because this is from a letter written to a Senator Bayh from a doctor who is concerned about the way things will be set up and the items pertaining to specific medical issues that Obama has addressed as outright lies) really think. If Obama, the senators, and representatives would sign the thing in blood and assure with their signatures that they would take this new medical insurance on as their provider, he might accrue the points he needs from the public. All that he did tonight was to reiterate his speeches of the past, make no assurances that he would work towards a bi-partisan bill, and call other men liars. Way to go Obama, read one of the damn bills at least.

As is the norm, the regular guys explained how they felt the president’s speech faired, and with no great surprise Mark Lamont, PhD (Columbia University professor) was all-agog over the speech (if Obama instructed this young man to eat crap and die, no doubt he would). Mark Lamont is a well-spoken, well-educated, nice looking young man, who will eventually outgrow his idealistic liberalism and grow into a man capable of convincing others that he is intelligent. David Axelrod, the boor, was less convincing than a Coy Carp in a fishpond trying to pass himself off as a shark. With Axelrod and “Tutu” Emanuel as his closest advisor, it is no wonder that Obama cannot find the error of his ways. However, all things that make sense aside, Pelosi should receive an award for the amount of lip biting she partook of during the speech. Lip biting is a sign of nervousness, and it started when something was shouted from her left…I still would like to know what she heard that got she and Joe Biden so un-nerved. Surely there was no loud shouting when the Great Orator was speaking, how dare they?

For more of what Obama would not say or could not say with any defense, go to the Atlanta Examiner web site. You can run his (the doctor’s) name through Google and bring up many sites, and you will find there are many liberal bloggers who are mad as hell at the doctor for presenting the letter to the public. The largest mistake made by Liberals is that they assume they’re more intelligent even though they cannot prove it. This is the second time that I have seen this bill and the first time was on a government site that hoped to make the bill too difficult to comprehend. Oh well, so much for telling the truth and helping the Republicans understand that when the Democrats force this bill through it is because they have lied. Shame on those redneck racist Republicans for telling the truth when socialism is already on the lips of Pelosi and the Obama administration; so close they can “almost” taste it.

This bill will turn the medical profession into production line efficiency, and I have worked a production line. A good deal of product gets knocked on the floor and washed down the drain, and there is no room in medicine for such actions.

The bill, written by Rockefeller and Snow, would give the Obama administration the right to shut down the Internet, private sector included, in the event of a cyber attack. The problem with the bill is that the language is unclear, and might allow the administration too much control over your computer. The article defining some of the problems appears in today’s opinion section of the Washington Times online.

My problem with this bill is that this administration has already built a reputation for wanting, and in some cases having silenced any opinions and voices that do not agree with their agenda. It’s not clear what constitutes and “emergency” and could leave open the possibility for the administration to shut down the Internet in the event that we have a situation such as that which happened in Iran. The people of the United States have enjoyed the freedom of speech and expression for centuries, but this bill could silence us all at this administrations whims of pleasure or disagreement. This is a bill that I would not want any of the past presidents to have had passed and enacted, much less this administration. Write and let your representatives and congressman/woman know that the Internet belongs to the world, not the president of the United States or congress.

I must have forgotten who attacked whom, because the bad guys under this administration are not the men who plotted and carried out the highjacking of 4 domestic flights, and killed almost 3,000 people while destroying the Twin Towers, but the men who did their best to protect this country from terrorist. According to Eric Holder, these terrorist who do not and did not respect our Constitution and our way of life, should have been given the full-extent of this countries good graces and legal system instead of being interrogated, water-boarded, and imprisoned. Actually, only 3 of them were water-boarded, and it is an easy assumption that their almost 3,000 victims would have chosen this supposed torture as opposed to the fate they and their families suffered.

Eric Holder, the same man who dismissed the charges against 3 Black Panthers for threatening and denying others the right to vote, has to do his moral duty through the investigation and possible indictment against men who were doing their job in the service of the CIA.

It’s reminiscent of Bernard Goetz, the man who defended himself against 4 youths while they mugged him in a New York subway. Mr. Goetz was ordered to pay the mugger who was injured when he shot him in self-defense $3-5 million, because the poor misfortunate will no longer be able to mug another soul on earth.

Holder, by attempting to try the men in the CIA, has justified the cause of the terrorist and indicted the victims of 9/11. Perhaps Holder will be able to gain freedom for some “really great” criminals and mar the victims with his disingenuous fight for civil and legal rights. While we’re at it, why not get Terry Nichols a new trial, after all he and Timothy McVeigh only killed a 168 people and injured 680, but then again they weren’t Muslims with a cause. Personally, I hate what happened in Oklahoma City, and on 9/11 and have no problems with whatever measures were taken to keep this country safe from terrorist-domestic or foreign-but you have to wonder what kind of justice is involved with indicting men for doing their jobs and trying to gain better treatment for those who killed others with no concern, empathy, or remorse, for the lives they took.

Mr. Holder-affording him the title of Mr. only to distinguish his sex-is a man on a mission, and that mission is to prove to the people who would use their voices in freedom that they had best watch their Ps and Qs or they too could be tried for doing their jobs and loving their country. This attempt to disgrace the Bush administration is a disgrace to the United States, and to the system of justice that we once valued. Justice may now be interpreted according to the whims and wishes of this administration. The Constitution, it would seem, has come under fire and the American people who use their voices are being maligned, but not to worry, Obama is happy. You have to wonder when it became important for the country to make their president happy no matter the cost to the country or to the laws we’ve established.

Perhaps it would be best to go forward and quit looking back, because this administration’s popularity is dropping daily and the people who voted for change did not ask for the ineffective, audacious malignancy that has over-taken this country.

My 3-year-old computer is more trouble, with none of the benefits, than my 3-year-old granddaughter, although it cannot wart me as she is doing now. Needless to say, Dora the Explorer is not on at the moment, so that’s why she is ranting about things, but my computer…well, that’s another rant altogether.

It started having it’s fit about a month ago. There were no initial symptoms, just the usual IE fits, update me please, and a few strange blinks, quirks and such, but nothing vital or AI threatening, or so I thought until we added a slave drive, which gave an antiquated piece of equipment more reason vetch, bitch, and shut down. The slave only added 30 G to the computer and there was no reason to believe that it would not accept the new drive, because I didn’t install it, my son-in-law did.

That brings us up to Sunday when the thing started shutting down after (initial installation of the slave) having been on approximately 15-30 minutes. This morning, it was less, it started up, whirred, spit, went through it’s usual dissatisfaction, and all came up well until the blue screen, the screen of death, the screen that any computer user knows is not as frightening today as it was 15-years-ago. Today, that screen that everyone fears is just one more reason to shut it off, walk away, get over the feeling that your computer is really trying to cause a nervous breakdown, and use your husband’s laptop that only requires your patients to type a blog.

So while you folks read this and whatever else gives you pleasure today, I will be
tech-snooping to find the cause of my computer’s wrath. Have a great day I know I will…If I don’t find anything today, all suggestions are welcomed…LOL…even if I do, please feel free to comment with any suggestions, or your own computer rants!

Yesterday an old and very dear friend sent an invitation for me to join the game Farmville, on Facebook, so I checked it out. The premise is not too terribly difficult, once you get your character developed, and you buy seed, plant and hoe, and get a few animals-I have two-to start your farm. Here’s the thing that I didn’t realize, at first, you have to tend the farm.

Oh yes, you have crops growing, and animals eating in earnest, and you have to take care of these. Most of the games that I had played online before this, you could just play when you wanted and click off to find other things to do on the computer. Needless to say, I let strawberries ripen and die and had no realization that that would happen. Silly me, it’s a farm.

Tonight, well…it’s really 1:02 in the morning and I’m trying to get this crop of strawberries grown before I go to bed. I suggest buying wheat, squash, and eggplant, because they take approximately 2 days to develop…and are easier for the lazy farmer to tend. Happy grazing, on the Facebook Farmville, if you try this game. I know that we will be more careful in our selection of crops so we do not ruin another harvest for our poor little avatars.