I just want to personally congratulate everyone who voted for Barack H. Obama.I am very proud to say that I did not. Barack is the golden child of the man behind the curtain. If you voted for him, or if you didn't, is irrelevant, sadly. Election fraud is now so deeply systemic in our United States that it would not have mattered anyway, as it did not in 2000, when our president was appointed by the Supreme Court, and in 2004, despite repeated and widespread outcries of fraud by the citizens, Kerry just let Bush have the win without a fight. Regardless of how you voted, he would have won. I can't prove this, but I bet I could convince anyone who would listen.
The problem is; people are suckers for a fad, catch slogan, or any other mindless and superficial identity with a social grouping. I would challenge anyone who actually voted for Obama to tell me where he was born, what his wife does in her spare time for the Council on Foreign Relations, and who his godfathers are. One of those three questions has an answer that remains unknown. We don't even know if he's actually qualified, under Constitutional Law to become the president, because he has failed to produce a valid birth certificate. This is the absolutely most basic vetting that must be done for any security clearance, obviously, and due to the bizarre cult of personality that has arisen around Barack, no one has made a serious demand for this documentation. So, at this moment, November 5th, 2008, we have a president-elect who may not be qualified to be president, according to the law. This is a very serious potential constitutional crisis. What we do know is that Obama produced a "certification of live birth" from Hawaii which is not a legal verification of birth, as it was not certified. Oopsie, Baracky-Wocky accidentally sent us an invalid certification of live birth, I'm sure he has a good reason for that. So, Mr. Obama, what is that reason? Just where is your Certificate of Live Birth? Speculation has it that you, Mr. Obama may have been born in Kenya, but the truth remains unknown, please enlighten us.Dear reader, please also check this World Net Daily Artice out, as well as the national press club video below.
Now, despite the subtitle of this article, I have nothing against Peavey gear, in fact nowadays, I think they make some of the greatest mass-prodcued basses, and truly professional PA systems of any manufacturer. I am talking about all the old 80's solid-state guitar amps I was 'blessed' with as a young player. They all sounded like a one-winged goose strapped to a bicycle wheel and rolling down the hill into the pond in the park by the river, or something, just atrociously poor tone. This post is about gear that is nothing like that.
Gear that doesn't suck isn't as rare as the marketing people, and trendy tattooed and pierced kids at the music store would have you believe.
Having been a musician for more than 20 years now, and a lower-middle class peasant all my life, I have some experience at trying to obtain decent gear and still eat food daily. Gold is where you find it, and I have found interesting and quality tones from instruments that were not what you might expect. More importantly, to the purpose of this article; a lot of great sounds can be squeezed out of equipment that has fallen into disfavor with the cool kids at the music store.
In my small city of Boise Idaho, there is a strong bias toward and against certain equipment and/or types of equipment.The bias itself has remained consistent over the last 20 years, because the old-boys network has somehow extended its philosophy to the once-youthful inheritors of Boise's flaccid musical history. That is to say, my generation, who is largely running those music stores nowadays has the same views and biases that the guys from the 70's heydays had. The interesting thing about this to me is that the technology has changed so much, but "rock-gear philosophy," has not. This article will examine the pros and cons of this perspective, and how to benefit from this prevalent technological ignorance.
I want to clarify, all-tube guitar amplifiers are one of the philosophical elements of the classic rocker mentality that I totally agree with, they sound fantastic when you find a good one. However, not all tube amps are good, not all Solid-State amps are bad.
Brand Names:
People get all wound up about brand names, most people seem to use the brand name of their new music toy as a rank insignia on their social uniform. You will never see a long-haired rocker playing through a Polytone amplifier, even though there is no real reason that they should not. You will rarely,if ever see a jazz player playing through a Marshall product, though the newer Marshalls can produce a nice shimmering clean tone to rival a Polytone.
It appears that the deadly conflict which has broken out in the month of August, 2008 between Russia and the former Soviet state of Georgia over Georgia's reluctance to allow South Ossetia seccede may be part of a larger conflict which involves NATO and the United States, as well.
[Russian News Source] Kommersantreports
that 2,500 to 3,000 mercenaries from Ukraine, the Baltic states and the
South Caucuses are fighting in Georgia under the direct command of U.S.
military instructors.
A: Georgia launched a military strike on
the province of South Ossetia, aiming to reclaim it after 16 years of
semi-independence. In response, Russia sent tanks in. Moscow says
Georgian forces had killed Russian peacekeepers there and were
committing acts of "ethnic cleansing" of native Russians living there.
that the United States is directly commanding the Georgians to commit ethnic cleansing, using their mercenary forces? Similar facts reported in many other sources may stir the mind that something may not be as it seems if one were to "listen to the filter," of the U.S. news media at large.
According to wire service RIA Novosti, U.S military transport planes were being used to fly in Georgian troops from Iraq to join the fighting. Vladimir Putin has also commented on this.
Public statements by our officials have all uniformly chastised the Russians as the aggressors, though even the aforementioned USAToday article, and even that paragon of modern yellow-journalism, Fox News, have had published irretrievable proof the U.S. is involved, the Fox article refers to the United States air-transporting Georgian soldiers from Iraq into the hot-zone in Georgia, something that has now inescapably entered the record of fact. Does this involvement mean that the USA is trying to foment a conflict with Russia, in an already hyperactive and possibly self-destructive age of American military profusion? Or is there something ulterior afoot in this conflict, perhaps collusion between the U.S.A and Russia to cause this conflict for reasons as yet to be revealed? One thing is certain, it will not be good for the citizens of any country involved, including the United States.
It is the duty of citizens in this country to rail against involvement in provocateured conflicts, and reckless involvement in foreign conflict. If the Iraq War is not evidence enough of that, then our eyes truly are closed to the truth. Please wake up and get involved! Be a Paladin for the Truth!
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To the very bowels of Stygian Furnaces Unknown to Mortal Man!
TO HELL, HELL, HELLLLL!!!1!!!1!!
For those of you who are not web-coders, a bit of highly compressed history is in order: It was not uncommon, in the past, for browsers to display html, css and other code in incompatibly different ways, but largely thanks to the folks over at The Web Standards Project those days are mostly over. Mozilla's Firefox, Opera, and other major browsers generally follow the standards set by the W3C, for both html, and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) implementation. However, Microsoft is determined to defecate in the collective cornflakes of web developers everywhere, by apparently refusing to comply with the standards set by the primary governing body over internet coding standards.
Internet Explorer (henceforth referred to as that insufferable piece of shit) requires separate CSS hacks for every version since IE5, much more so today than any major contemporary browser.
To their credit, MS IE4 really was far superior to Netscape4 when it came to standards compliance, but since that time, they have trodden the path of least compliance, it seems, all the while giving lip service to their newfound dedication to standards, displaying a lack of compassion and integrity simultaneously.
I am going to write more on this later, but for now, I have to fix my fucking layout by writing AN ENTIRE SEPARATE STYLE SHEET JUST FOR That insufferable piece of shit!
In the meantime, I certainly encourage you to contact microsoft and ask them questions about any of the bugs found at Mr. Gérard Talbot's site, and why their browser, with all the resources ($) at their disposal, has so many bugs.
I realize of course I will not be an übergeek, nor a true ninja/jedi/pirate/vulcan, until I convert completely to Linux or BSD with Command-Line only, but I like pretty pictures, okay? I need a GUI some times, like my blankie, when I was a kid.
I am dual-booting my personal computer to Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10.
and so can you be too!
Here's my basic sysinfo:
AMD Barton Core Athlon 2500+
Biostar M7NCD Ultra
1GB Matched PC2700 333Mhz DDR
NVidia GeForce MX5200
All I had to do was download, burn, install.
I went to Ubuntu.org and downloaded the newest release for x86 processors, put in the disk after making the preliminary check that my BIOS was set to boot from CD, then installed it and let it partition my disks automatically1; Voilà!, I was a huge dork.
