tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96126092007-08-08T21:58:43.141-07:00BadTuxBlogger1478125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-2921810335944457992007-08-08T12:28:00.000-07:002007-08-08T21:49:59.137-07:00

Yes, they do illegal stuff, like give an incorrect social security number to employers in order to get jobs, and we should send'em all back to where they came from. Why, just the other day, those dastardly darkies drank from the whites-only fountain, sat at the front of the bus rather than the back of the bus, walked into a whites-only school and expected to be educated, and so forth. How dare

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-60520247433572677512007-08-07T18:23:00.000-07:002007-08-07T18:25:30.609-07:00

Uhm, no. Social Security is not going to go tits up. Without tax hikes or sale of lots of Treasuries on the open market to pay back the bonds in the Social Security trust fund it’s not going to be able to pay all the promised benefits, but frankly even the 60% of the promised benefits that it will be able to pay worst case is more than enough for me to live on in retirement (granted, I qualify

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-71179682727174405932007-08-07T13:49:00.000-07:002007-08-07T13:51:31.485-07:00

Wikipedia's Page of the Day is William Tecumseh Sherman, the first modern general -- the first general who truly understood the nature of war in the industrial age. Read. Discuss. Understand why there was not a single general in the U.S. Army advocating invading Iraq prior to being ordered to do so by Herr Bush. -- Badtux the History Penguin

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-88753895812158657422007-08-06T23:11:00.000-07:002007-08-07T12:14:07.640-07:00

So, 62 years ago, Hiroshima went up in smoke, and thousands of her citizens too, in the world's first use of a nuclear weapon against a civilian population. That's supposed to be a bad thing. Like, I'm supposed to feel sad about it or something. But I don't. You know why? Because of the Rape of Nanking. The Bataan Death March. The forced prostitution of women in conquered populations. Military

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-43752538531099675642007-08-06T22:22:00.000-07:002007-08-06T23:03:39.570-07:00

Hmm, how's that housing bubble doin'? Yeppers, another home loan vendor bites the dust. But unlike the others, this one wasn't a sub-prime lender. This one is an "alt-A" lender, someone who lends money to folks who have good credit but maybe are buying a little more house than they can afford or something like that. The failures are moving up the home loan lending food chain. So what does it

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-46905187792019881012007-08-06T21:44:00.000-07:002007-08-06T23:25:30.810-07:00

August 6, 2001. President George W. Bush attends a conference with National Security Advisor Condi Rice and representatives of several intelligence agencies to be briefed about a threat to America. These representatives of the nation's intelligence services brief the President, at this Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), that Osama bin Laden is planning to strike America, and furthermore that he

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-82341943234887966322007-08-05T19:12:00.001-07:002007-08-07T13:52:36.241-07:00

DIdn't get to sleep until 6am, woke up at 10am. How does a penguin do on 4 hours of sleep? Interesting experiment, dear Watson. Didn't stop me from heading up to Wally World to get my medicines, then over to Harbor Freight Tools and Sears to start the work of replacing the tools that were in the toolbox that thieves stole (grrrrrr....). None of my core tools were in that toolbox (they were all

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-69574493435431779592007-08-04T23:58:00.000-07:002007-08-05T00:07:06.373-07:00

In a previous message regarding "Dr." Michael Savage extolling gold as an investment, I implied that he didn't really have a doctorate degree. Uhm, I gotta post a correction there. He does. Under his real name, Michael Allan Weiner (sounds like "whiner"), he has a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in Nutrition, and wrote a number of books in the 1970's and 1980's about various

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-51337122398660829942007-08-03T23:01:00.000-07:002007-08-03T23:16:55.838-07:00

I have been trudging through my old photos today, putting them into iPhoto and sorting and categorizing them. While doing so I came across these photos of The Mighty Fang and Mencken shortly after they came home from the Arizona Humane Society. I was living in Scottsdale at the time in a funky 1950's concrete block ranch house just outside of downtown. Some of the other photos of the Arizona

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-6889709467319425762007-08-03T21:53:00.000-07:002007-08-03T22:06:14.780-07:00

is .... BWHAHAHAH! C'mon, did you really think I was going to do a Romney/Lieberman style "plan" for solving Iraq's problems? Get real, folks. The time when I, or any American, had the moral standing or any standing at all to say anything about how to "fix" Iraq is long gone. As a nation we have proven to be utterly incompetent and inept at the task of ruling an Arab nation. There is literally

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-29281608183224030392007-08-02T19:55:00.000-07:002007-08-02T20:04:34.259-07:00

As some of you know, I subscribe to World Nut Daily's news flashes so that you don't have to. In the latest news flash, I learned an interesting thing: Mit Romney is a terrorist supporter. See, Mitt Romney sez that the way to get those darkies overseas to love us is to, like, be nice to them. Give them money to buy food and clothes. Build bridges and water treatment plants and roads for them.

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-26508532437174176862007-08-02T09:19:00.000-07:002007-08-02T09:23:05.832-07:00

Yeppers. That's the latest target that the U.S. Army is going after in their quest to fill ranks depleted by the War on Brown People Overseas -- brown people. Mexican brown people. With false promises of citizenship. Crap, even the Roman Army didn't go that far. They recruited illegals, sure, but they gave the illegals and their families citizenship in exchange for their service. Hmm, reminds

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-22176855625694185422007-08-01T18:24:00.000-07:002007-08-01T19:29:41.073-07:00

The Coultergeist (sorry, no linky, I won't drive hits to the harpy) has come up with the latest crime that the Democrats are guilty of: They're being nice to teachers. Good call, Republicons! Everybody knows that the best way to deal with the people who are raising your children (because you're too self-centered, selfish, apathetic, and/or stupid to do it yourself) is not to be nice to them. If

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-69363629563867703592007-08-01T13:18:00.000-07:002007-08-01T13:38:26.250-07:00

Can't sleep. Was browsing blogs at 3am last night. Time to cut down on the coffee. Sigh. - Badtux the Sleepless Penguin

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-70207028470394430672007-07-31T16:29:00.000-07:002007-07-31T17:01:22.049-07:00

So now both California and Florida have certified electronic voting machines -- as being crap. Even World Nut Daily (R-Nuttsville) has expressed alarm, mostly because they're concerned that those nasty Demon-craps are gonna hack an election (they don't figure Republicans are smart enough to hack an election apparently), but still, it seems that the general consensus everywhere outside of local

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-75454132069875820952007-07-30T15:29:00.000-07:002007-07-30T15:37:51.504-07:00

Putrid seafood. Lead-tainted candy. E. coli tainted spinach. You've probably heard about the rash of food quality problems that have occurred recently. There's been a lot of mention of them in the press and all that. But never fear, the Bush Administration has a sure-fired plan to solve the problem of reports of bad food quality, a sure-fired plan sure to reduce the # of food quality problems:

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-39647406108529368392007-07-30T08:24:00.000-07:002007-07-30T08:53:09.679-07:00

Yeah, that's what the tighty righties always say about Iraq, as they cower under their bedsheets in terror of Teh Brown. Thing is, I remember yet another time when we had to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here". Except the place was Vietnam. And we really did have terror cells "over here", Communist front groups devoted to "bringing on the revolution." And yeah, they

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-4842109217391738812007-07-29T13:07:00.000-07:002007-07-29T13:14:47.927-07:00

So I just put together one of those white bookshelves from Ikea, and turned around and started clearing a spot for it. Then I hear a CRASH! I turn around and... The Mighty Fang had launched himself off the top of the kitchen counter (one of those wrap-around bar type counters) to jump on top of the new bookshelf unit to investigate, and of course since there were no books in it to stabilize it,

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-60968329057703351492007-07-29T12:42:00.000-07:002007-07-29T14:05:08.519-07:00

I don't read a lot of dark serious books nowdays. After all, if I want to read dark serious stuff, all I have to do is read the news. So yesterday I grabbed a couple of Janet Evanovich novels off the to-read shelf. The woman has a formula, and she pretty much sticks with it. Okay, so it ain't the Great American Novel (what is, other than Mark Twain?). But it's more entertaining than watching

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-63292996453099437662007-07-29T12:40:00.001-07:002007-07-29T13:07:47.925-07:00

Okay, back to Econ 101 again. As you may recall from my earlier posting on gold, the value of money is what you can buy with it. Gold was lousy as money because you can't buy shit with gold. Try it. Go down to your local store. Pick up a bag of potatoes and a bag of turnips, and go to the checkout counter. Give them gold. See them stare at it in amazement, then tell you, "I want real money." I.e

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-26125967018780488242007-07-28T23:11:00.000-07:002007-07-29T14:04:09.416-07:00

At first glance there does not seem to be any way to hook a keyboard and mouse and monitor to a Macbook and use just that keyboard and monitor and mouse. The little picture of a monitor in the menu bar will just let you either mirror the two monitors, or extend your desktop across the two monitors. But there is. Set the "wake on Bluetooth" preference to "Yes", plug the external monitor in and

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-84242740006820662472007-07-27T13:51:00.000-07:002007-07-27T13:53:17.301-07:00

Nothing beats full-body palm-on-fur action for making a kitty happy... -- Badtux the Joy-producing Penguin

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-41171295861543290172007-07-26T16:08:00.000-07:002007-07-26T17:45:13.983-07:00

As some of you know, I've placed myself on a few of the right-wingnut mailing lists just for the entertainment value. While the results have been entertaining in a way, I haven't posted much about it. That's because while entertaining, they're also rather sad or pathetic. Case in point: "Dr." Michael Savage (Ph.D.-Mail Order) sent me an email extolling gold as an investment. Now, first of all

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-54305239347085504182007-07-26T14:02:00.000-07:002007-07-26T14:12:21.445-07:00

Have to run it in Parallels on the Macbook to run the VPN tunnel to work (only runs on Windows, GRRR!). So I changed my Parallels setup and re-installed and it decided it no longer wanted to be activated. So I went through the robot and the robot told me I stole my copy of Windows that I paid good money for blah blah, so I called again and punched keys until I got a customer service

BadTuxtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-17323112663137295282007-07-26T00:54:00.000-07:002007-07-26T01:08:20.049-07:00

If we are just animals, just meat around bone stuffed into a skin sack like a sausage, does that make our lives futile and worthless? Mencken would like to strongly disagree. His life has purpose. He eats, he sleeps, he gets palm-on-fur action from his alpha cat (me). He brings furry warmth to the nightly bed. He is kind to his apartment-mates, though he is not afraid to give them a warning

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