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Mar 2007
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Begorrah!
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Sat 17 Mar 2007 10:55
by Kevin McGehee
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[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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‘Tis the seventeenth o’ March! An’ me blessed blog isn’t wearin’ the green. Feel free to pinch the faithless thing.
Update: All right, all right, stop pinchin’ already! Learned its lesson, it has!
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‘A Hammer to the Forehead’ Is About Right
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Sat 17 Mar 2007 10:32
by Kevin McGehee
39° and partly cloudy
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[Here's Your Sign]
[Wackadoodle]
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I would not be the least bit surprised if this guy also fervently disbelieves that a bunch of backward Ay-rabs could have possibly hatched a plot to bring down the World Trade Center.
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Charles comments, “This has got to be an early April Fool joke.“ Would it were so.
Update:  See comments.
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Obsolete Before It Arrived
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Fri 16 Mar 2007 16:46
by Kevin McGehee
51° and cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
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[AK4MC]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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My General-class license arrived in the mail today, just three days after the upgrade was posted to the internet. By this timeline—assuming the tests conducted by the Fayette County VE team pass through the bowels of the U.S. postal system at the same rate as those conducted two weekends earlier by their Coweta County, er, counterparts—I should see my Extra upgrade online about March 27, and have ticket in hand on the 31st.
I don’t remember how long the new licenses took to arrive the last time Wifey-Ki-Yay and I needed to get new ones, which was when we moved into Yippee-Ki-Yay! World Headquarters (change of address), but this less-than-three-weeks timeline does seem to be fairly common from what I understand.
New hams, however, may have to wait longer; their information has to be entered into the system afresh, whereas us upgraders just need a couple of database fields updated.
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Questions for Double-Super-Secret Agent Plame, Valerie Plame
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Fri 16 Mar 2007 10:16
by Kevin McGehee
60° and light rain
in Coweta County, GA
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[War]
[Media Ochre]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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Via Dan Collins guest-posting on Protein Wisdom, the questions Congress (or somebody) desperately needs to ask the “outed” super-double-secret CIA desk jockeyette (selective excerpt):
Since the CIA maintains an office which is responsible for contacts with the press, on what date did you report your May 2 and 3 contacts with Nicholas Kristof to that office?
Your name, Valerie Plame, was listed in Who’s Who in America from 1999 through 2005, under your husband’s listing? Did you seek special permission from the CIA to be included in that entry?
Is it common practice for CIA agents to donate to political campaigns? When you contributed to the Gore campaign in 1999 under your own name, did you have any obligation to report that to your superiors?
At anytime did you, or anyone at the CIA, ask Joe Wilson to stop exposing your identity? » Rick Ballard: Serious Questions for Henry Waxman’s Show Trial
That’s just a small sample of the highlights. Read in their entirety, they represent the first complete, serious effort to get to the bottom of just what was really going on with these two publicity hounds.
Lord, please see to it that someone at that hearing asks these questions.
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A Three and a Half Year Old Mystery
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Wed 14 Mar 2007 20:26
by Kevin McGehee
71° and mostly cloudy
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It happened in September 2003 and I remember it being blogged by Susanna Cornett, and the mystery widened over the subsequent weeks.
Now, investigators believe they may finally be near to solving the disturbing crime.
Federal authorities have figured out how a pizza deliveryman wound up in the middle of a bizarre bank robbery scheme that ended with a bomb around his neck exploding, and the identities of the plotters, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Brian Wells, 46, robbed a suburban Erie bank on Aug. 28, 2003, with the bomb attached to his neck and then was killed when it exploded as he sat handcuffed in a parking lot while police waited for a bomb squad.
No one was charged as authorities struggled to determine who was behind the plot and whether Wells was an innocent victim or willing participant.
But the case has been solved and indictments are expected, likely by next month, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan was to make an official announcement at a Friday afternoon news conference.
The law enforcement official told the AP that Buchanan would not disclose what the investigators concluded, but would say that the government is confident they know how and why Wells died.
“The government knows what happened the day of the incident. We know all the details that led up to the death of Brian Wells and all the parties involved,“ the official said.» AP: Official: Erie collar-bomb case solved
This article ran last month, but I didn’t see it until today. It will be interesting to see what they’ve made of it. If Wells was a victim, those who murdered him need to be punished.
H/t: Neatorama by way of Anywhere But Here.
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They Support the Troops by Beating the $#!t Out of Them
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Wed 14 Mar 2007 9:12
by Kevin McGehee
55° and cloudy
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[War]
[Wackadoodle]
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A soldier honoured for his military valour in Afghanistan is wondering why strangers attacked and beat him in his hometown bar this past weekend.
“This wasn’t two guys on the ice dropping gloves and going, ‘OK, let’s go’,“ Master Cpl. Collin Fitzgerald told CTV Ottawa on Tuesday.
“This was an attack—a sneak attack. To blindside a guy ... and hit him with an object, there’s something wrong.“
Fitzgerald is well known in Morrisburg, Ont., a small town about an hour’s drive south of Ottawa.
He says he’d been in the bar only about 20 minutes late Friday, visiting with a childhood friend who introduced him to people as a war hero, when he was suddenly struck from behind with some type of object. Four men jumped him and began beating on him.» CTV: Soldier calls nasty bar beating a ‘sneak attack’
I’ll bet the perps would claim they’re for peace.
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Mas Bueno
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Tue 13 Mar 2007 9:17
by Kevin McGehee
48° and mostly cloudy
2 comments
[War]
[Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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As President Bush prepares to meet today with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mr. Calderon and his government are increasingly making it clear the solution to the U.S. illegal immigration problem lies in Mexico.
“I will say this very clearly—comprehensive immigration reform in the United States starts in Mexico,“ Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s new ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview last week in Washington previewing this week’s meeting.
“Unless Mexico is able to generate the type of economic growth, job creation, well-paid job creation, we will still have a difficult time, even though there’s a comprehensive immigration agreement [in the United States], to dampen the root causes that propel so many Mexicans to seek a better life across the border,“ Mr. Sarukhan told The Washington Times.» Washington Times: Mexico warns jobs key to halting illegals
Only by the Mexican government taking its share of the responsibility can congenial relations between our two countries survive this ongoing problem.
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