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Updates, updates, updates

New logo, and more changes to the site.
Moved the links so people quit asking me where the tracker is. (geezz)
Also will be putting up more Steelers camp news today.
Beck updates as well.

Photo Update

I added a photo gallery for the Washington D.C. holiday and also have been adding to the miscellaneous gallery.
Enjoy.

Mr. Muddy Goes To Washington Part 3

	AR-7 U.S.S. Hector

The World War II Memorial was stunning, a ring with one open end surrounded by small walls one for each state and territory. While there I happened to look up and see a WWII vet standing up on the balcony on the Pacific side, little did I know at the time how fitting that would be. I gave him a wave thanking him for his service and sapped off a shot on his return wave. That image has been in my mind since that day. I did a quick google search and found his ship was the U.S.S. Hector, a combat repair ship was commissioned 7 February 1944, it served with the Pacific Fleet though WWII and into the next few decades.

Top Shi'ite backs anti-militia calls

While it would be foolish to deny Iraq is full of violence and problems, this is a very positive event.

Gaza groups ready to deal on cease-fire, release of Shalit

Is this a Trojan horse or real? Interesting, we'll take the old wait and see approach on this one.

Execution of a teenage girl

A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran.

This is only one example, this sounds to me like these dirt bags are going to be great negotiating partners, loads of reasons to believe a single word they say.

Linux File Renaming Made Easy

I've been searching for a way to do mass file renaming in linux for a long time. I happened upon this sweet perl script and had to make everyone I can aware of it.

This script is sweet, also works in mac osx and winders.

Get it Here -> namefix.pl 3.0

Hezbollah to launch "rain of terror"

Keep an eye on this one kids, it will be interesting to see how much press this gets once it starts happening.

Mr. Muddy Goes To Washington Part 2

Korean War Memorial

I honestly did not know there was a Korean War Memorial until I was seeing what all there was on google maps to check out. It was well done I thought.
With a wall of faces from the many different countries, a simple and elegant fountain with the number of captured, wounded and missing. Also as you walked down the path into the memorial all the countries that were involved are listed as well a mock up of a typical squad marching in a simple garden.

All is not lost: Logic still can win in America

Eminent domain abused
Ohio Supreme Court overrules Norwood home-taking

I'm shocked to see this kind of logical ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court, maybe my state has hope after all. ;-P

Mr. Muddy Goes To Washington Part 1

US government helped sink The Pirate Bay; goes after other sites

Got to love the RIAA and MPAA's deep pockets, wish I could buy my own politicians so I could force other countries to do my bidding. Bastards.

Song Of The Week - Flow

New Song by H2O Liquid : Flow

For your trance listening pleasure.

Left vs Right: Shut Up Already

I'm so sick of the wingers vs. the nut jobs that I want to whip out a M-249 and mow them all down. Liberals, Progressives, Conservatives, Patriots and on and on. How about this grand new concept??

AMERICANS!

Dammit, we're always bitching and fighting like snot nose brats on the playground, I for one am sick of it.

I have a suggestion, ban all political parties, and also outlaw political organizations, clubs and weblogs. :-P

Force Americans to be Americans, have civil discussions, share ideas and omg, hold on, get the hell along!! with each other.

I realize this is impossible, but I just want to be on record that our current hate fest is really getting tiresome.

Mooseboy and I got along swell playing Madden (when he wasn't running fake punts every 4th down, hehe, sorry had to rib you there) and I'm sure we can at the very least agree we love our country and want it to prosper and be the best. (I really hope we can agree on that at least).
How this happens can be worked out later, how about we all agree on this one thing, America is our country, we love our country and want it to grow and prosper.

Can we at least start there?

(sorry International readers, not really meant for you all this time)

Advertising invading your egg tray

IN September, CBS plans to start using a new place to advertise its fall television lineup: your breakfast.

The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as “egg-vertising,” hinting at the wordplay they have in store. Some of their planned slogans: “CSI” (“Crack the Case on CBS”); “The Amazing Race” (“Scramble to Win on CBS”); and “Shark” (“Hard-Boiled Drama.”). Variations on the ad for its Monday night lineup of comedy shows include “Shelling Out Laughs,” “Funny Side Up” and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”

George Schweitzer, president of the CBS marketing group, said he was hoping to generate some laughter in American kitchens. “We’ve gone through every possible sad takeoff on shelling and scrambling and frying,” he said, adding, “It’s a great way to reach people in an unexpected form.”

Newspapers, magazines and Web sites are so crowded with ads for entertainment programming that CBS was ready to try something different, Mr. Schweitzer said. The best thing about the egg concept was its intrusiveness.

Full Story @ New York Times

This is going to be a massive failure, most Americans will get pissed off and leave the eggs that have 'ads' on them on the shelf in favor of eggs without ads. -Ed

Evolution: You continue to baffle me

So here I am, day, uh, oh crap I've lost count already.

Trying to emerge evolution 2.6.2 up from 2.4.2 which worked fine exept the spell check NEVER worked.
So the normal person thinks, heck I'll emerge aspell and some other libs, then the newest stable evolution and bam, however my crap never, ever is that simple.

I did aspell, and some other smaller libs that it needed, then found the ASpellFox plugin for Firefox which is fantastic I must say.

Then on to emerging evolution, which fails to

cd .. \
&& CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing default-2 commands
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.6.2-r1/work/evolution-2.6.2/po'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.6.2-r1/work/evolution-2.6.2/po'
cd .. \
&& CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
/bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing default-2 commands
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `@ALL_LINGUAS@.po', needed by `@ALL_LINGUAS@.gmo'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.6.2-r1/work/evolution-2.6.2/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.6.2-r1/work/evolution-2.6.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: mail-client/evolution-2.6.2-r1 failed.
!!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 64, Exitcode 2
!!! compile failure
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Every single time.
Even tried to go back to the older 2.4.x version and same, exact, thing.
So I emerged Thunderbird to tide me over till I get this figured out.
If anyone has any ideas I'd be in your debt if this gets figured out.

Talk about your "slanted" point of view

Just a quick note, this is more propaganda imho, than it is news.
Each point in the timeline is "look how evil Israel is and how innocent Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran are." Oh give me a freakin' break.

Aljazeera.Net - Timeline: Israel and Lebanon

BBC: Israel Evil, Terrorists Good

Watching the BBC News this morning you would think that Israel was pure evil and that the terrorists (including Syria) were gentle angels. With exception of the short interview with Sami Khiyami the Syrian Ambassador to England when they asked him why they are supporting Hezbollah, to which he replied "we need to support freedom fighters", huh?

Later (much) they talked to Benjamin Netanyahu (very briefly) and he said what sensible people are saying. "We made an agreement with the Lebanese government that they would dismantle Hezbollah and police their own territory and we would pull out giving them full control, we held up our end of the agreement, they have not."
Thus, anyone bitching about Israel and NOT about Hezbollah, Lebanon and Syria should check their facts.
(note, never did I say Israel were without fault ever, I'm only speaking of this current battle)

I love this line: "But some experts warn that the Bush administration's diplomatic options may be stretched too thin to mediate effectively and prevent major bloodletting." from the sfgate.com

They just don't get it, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran DO NOT GIVE A FLYING CRAP about talking!!, their goal is to kill Americans, Israelis and everyone else who is NOT their version of a muslim. Wake up stupid people of the world. You cannot negotiate with terrorists, it, does, not, work. (ever)

Sensible people who are willing to negotiate don't become terrorists (or Muslim extremists), sensible people also do not abandon their own people and then use them as pawns to create hate, anger and war (cough, cough, Syria).

OK, I'm done ranting.

Need to go to work now. :-)

The History of the Middle East...

This is a must watch short video.

U.S. Hackers Unite!

The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, The Associated Press has learned.

Investigators believe hackers stole sensitive U.S. information and passwords and implanted backdoors in unclassified government computers to allow them to return at will, said U.S. officials familiar with the hacking. These people spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the widespread intrusions and the resulting investigation.

The break-ins and the State Department's emergency response severely limited Internet access at many locations, including some headquarters offices in Washington, these officials said. Internet connections have been restored across nearly all the department since the break-ins were recognized in mid-June.

"The department did detect anomalies in network traffic, and we thought it prudent to ensure out system's integrity," department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said. Asked what information was stolen by the hackers, Cooper said, "Because the investigation is continuing, I don't think we even know."

Full Story @ BREITBART.COM

U.S. hackers strike back -Ed

Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea

TOKYO (AP) - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.

Japan was badly rattled by North Korea's missile tests last week and several government officials openly discussed whether the country ought to take steps to better defend itself, including setting up the legal framework to allow Tokyo to launch a pre-emptive strike against Northern missile sites.

"If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack ... there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defense. We need to deepen discussion," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.

Full Story @ My Way News

Mexico not willing to pay for their own

Seems one hospital in Dallas has had enough of Illegal immigrants (and others from outside their county) not paying up. So they have taken the only course of action they can. Bill their legal land of residence. Then the real non-surprise, Mexico played the race card. Yikes, did not see that coming. (rolls eyes)
So I guess if America send millions over to mexico the would gladly give us free housing, medical care and whatever else we demanded.

I applaud their effort even though they won't see one cent. (or peso) It's a courageous gesture on their part, now if they can just stand up to the insurance companies.

Full Story @ The Washington Times

Happy Birthday America!

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.


Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.


But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.



The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies - National Constitution Center

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

* For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
* For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
* For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
* For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
* For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
* For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
* For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
* For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.

* We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
* We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,

and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved;

and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,

and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton