March 27, 2025

I'm back, after the computer meltdown, with a Windows 7 factory reset !!!

HAHAHAHAHA, pretty bad, yeah? I bought this pc in 2009... but it works again now, by God, "like new"!

I had another in-between, but it died... Been using this for a year,
but it had never been reset since I bought it--- startups and shutdowns were impossibly long
(five minutes or more to start it up, and apparently I finally damaged the software too much
from shutting it down by unplugging it--- guess they were right about that!)

So it became unusable--- would not open links,
opening everything by opening a "save to disk" option.... even files and folders,
so I had to give up and do that 'factory reset'...

Of course, now it can't be updated and is missing that big Windows 7 "service pack 1" update,
so many things cannot be used, particularly most virus software--- can't even use Windows Defender...

However, now it starts up and shuts down--- like LIGHTNING! hahaha

I already had plans to replace this with a refurbished Windows 11 machine,
but now I mean to procrastinate and keep using it for a while!

(I no longer frequent certain internet "bad neighborhoods" where you were most likely to pick up viruses... so I'[m not so worried about that now.)

On the bright side--- some of my old games which had stopped working, now work again!

The other problem was my DU login credentials were no longer saved,
and I had a little trouble getting back in here--- but resolved now.

Glad to be back! I did read a little anyway in the past month, but less than I would have normally...


Trump is a fucking MADMAN, but his act is growing thin with the masses---
and the price of a bag of Doritos is STILL too high !!!!
(something I have recently developed a craving for, and have indulged--
probably because I had talked about them too much!!!)

I had previously sometimes bought "generic" from Kroger,
but there is nothing like "the real thing"! and there are now many new flavors,
of which I had not been previously aware....

At the Dollar General which I can see from the porch of my house,
(and which has been my only food source for months since my car is broke down),
they are selling two bags for $7, which is not too horrible.

My favorite is "flaming hot"-- I like to eat them with DG chimichangas in particular!


Thanks for indulging my rant, if you got this far!

February 24, 2025

Social Security website weird daytime hours.... is this the internet ??

Yeah, the SS website is not available 24 hours a day---
trying to save bandwidth? or two people have to maintain it by themselves,
in the middle of the night?? who knows.

Much discussed here in various threads, but this is the running late-night message:


"This service is not available at this time.
Please try again during our regular service hours (Eastern Time):

Day
Service Hours
Monday-Friday 4:15 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Saturday 5:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Federal Holidays Same hours as the day the holiday occurs.
If you need immediate assistance:

You may call us Monday through Friday: 8:00AM - 7:00PM at:

1-800-772-1213

If you are deaf or hard-of-hearing, call our toll-free TTY number:

1-800-325-0778"



I have personally been approved for benefits, as of Monday, so they said before today had happened---
Applied on November 23rd, and was assured that the usual approval period was "30 days"--
and was finally approved at 90 days--

another DU poster elsewhere said they reached someone on the phone there,
and was told 'it's no longer 30 days, now it is 90 days'...

but still says 30 days on the website 'for starters'

I really didn't want to do this yet, but seemed I had no choice--
but if I'd known this, I might have applied sooner. Oh well.

Looks like I should be out of the woods now,
but I'll believe it when I have money in my bank account.

February 2, 2025

Canada Should Place 100% Tariff on TESLA, says Liberal Party PM candidate Freeland

Tesla should face 100% tariffs in Canada to counter Trump: minister

A former Canadian Minister and Liberal Party candidate has released a statement on U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to establish tariffs on products imported from Canada, saying that the country should respond by imposing a 100-percent tariff on Tesla’s vehicles and other products.

After the White House confirmed plans on Friday to launch 25 percent tariffs against Mexico and Canada over the weekend, former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland shared a statement suggesting counter-tariffs that would include Teslas. The minister says Canada should release a “targeted list of potential retaliatory tariffs” that would represent $200 billion worth of American imports, in order to counter the Trump administration’s plans.

“Canada must threaten to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all Tesla vehicles and a 100 per cent tariff on U.S. wine, beer, and spirits if unfair tariffs are imposed on Canadians tomorrow,” Freeland said on Friday.

She also suggests that Canada work with a number of other countries to develop a joint response to the tariffs, with plans to create a summit if she is sworn in as Prime Minister. Freeland has been running to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and aims to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following his announcement of plans to step down.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-100-tariffs-canada-trump-minister/


AGREED "100%" !

Musk needs to suffer more pain for what he has done to this country---
pain that he can understand.... Loss of MONEY.

(I would think that a 100% tariff on Tesla in Canada would nearly put them 100% out of business entirely in that country-- except among the uber-rich who just can't live without Musk's overpriced junk...)

February 2, 2025

Trump Was Direct Cause of the DC Airliner Crash !!!! How, you ask?

Well, the people in the blackhawk helicopter were arguing about Trump at the time, which distracted them, resulting in the crash!

I'm relying on the 'Trump evidence standard' for this assertion: Absolutely none whatsoever.

If Trump wasn't such an asshole, all those people might still be alive today.

January 31, 2025

Trump is the biggest "D.E.I. hire" EVER!

--- brought to us by the D.E.I. program of the Republican party,
which emphasizes 'inclusion' for felons, frauds and sexual abusers!

January 23, 2025

Trump's Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking Food Industry. Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work

Full Article: https://newrepublic.com/post/190555/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-farm-workers

My chosen excerpts:

:::snip:::

Undocumented workers have been targeted walking in and out of gas stations, getting breakfast, at Home Depot, or while driving along the 99 Highway, leaving many with no other option than to simply stay at home.

“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting,” Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters. “This sent shockwaves through the entire community. People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25 percent of the workforce, today 75 percent didn’t show up.”

Losing the bulk of America’s agricultural workforce overnight is a recipe for “absolute economic devastation,” according to Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield, who spoke with the nonprofit news outlet.

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” Gearhart said, arguing that the end result of Trump’s policies will be felt in the grocery store checkout lines across America.

:::snip:::



Better gorge on oranges now, folks--- you may not want to pay what they may cost later, if you can even find them---with California's next crop "roasting in the blazing sun" right now, with hardly any workers showing up to pick them--- !!!

January 20, 2025

SECRET for rank-and-file MAGAs who want to get in to the Inauguration----!!!!

NONE OF YOU who aren't among the elites will be admitted---

UNLESS you have number 666 tattooed upon your forehead,
or upon your right hand!


Just trying to be helpful! Hate to see all that airfare and hotel money go to waste!

December 12, 2024

'Nasty ads' the Democrats SHOULD HAVE RUN in the 'swing states'----

In this state (Michigan), and I suspect the other swing states, we were overwhelmed with the anti-Kamala ads about how she wanted the government to pay for trans sex-change operations in prisons (which was actually the TRUMP policy, but nevermind that)--- those were the "Willie Horton" ads of the 2024 campaign!

I felt that the Democrats and Harris campaign needed to counteract those, but they never did---
even with ATTACK ads which had NOTHING to do with that policy--
just something far enough down the low road to neutralize them

(I made a suggestion for one somewhere here, but now I forget what I suggested--
but it was something with the gloves completely off---
maybe an ad about Trump's alleged rape of that young teenager
who had been pressing charges, but ultimately disappeared,
and now no one knows whatever became of her--- )

That's what I mean about "taking the gloves off"---
yeah, the charges were never proven--- BUT---

NOBODY IS EVER HELD RESPONSIBLE BY THE VOTERS FOR ADVERTISING COMPLETE OUTRIGHT LIES ANYMORE !!!--
as the Republicans have proven--- but on that particular issue, there were actually some court filings---

Advertise THAT one, and the LONG LIST of REPUBLICANS
who have ACTUALLY BEEN CHARGED OR CONVICTED
of CHILD RAPE and/or sexual abuse--- and RUN THAT DAY AND NIGHT
for the last week or two of the campaign---

That's what I would have done. I think GQP child rape "Trumps" prison sex-change operations,
but you have to run the ads, and run the everlasting FUCK out of them....


but Democrats are "too polite" to run ads like that...

We need to stop coming to an artillery battle with butter knives,
just because we think 'we are better than that'
or we 'go high when they go low'...

All our good intentions amount to nothing if we lose the campaign.

WIN IT, WHATEVER THE MEANS---
and we can be the 'good people' afterwards-- when it counts!!

December 7, 2024

Do you have to be a CEO to be considered "assassinated" when you are shot in the street

by a gunman who is still at large, and whose motives at this point
are only a matter of internet speculation ??



Apparently so--- since numerous other people have been shot dead in the street
within the same time-frame--- and there appears to be no such labeling of their deaths as
an 'assassination'


Maybe you have to be considered in some context 'important'
before your murder can be labeled as an 'assassination' ?


I'm pretty sure that each individual whose life was ended
probably would consider the act to be an 'assassination'--
from their personal point of view....


So he was a CEO of a healthcare company---
but the vast majority of the US or any other country
never heard of him before he was gunned down in the street


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He probably was in favor of the weak gun laws which may have helped to bring about his demise.

November 16, 2024

DonOLD Trump's proposed cabinet appointments start to look like "trolling Democrats"

because they are mostly so bad.... just to piss us off

Fucking maniacs, criminals, dog-killers and anti-vaxxers and pedarists--
totally unqualified persons---

making Marco Rubio look good. So far,
he looks like the only one who could be even "remotely"
perceived as being a "normie"....


(except for getting on his knees in front of the orange asshole---
but that has been "normalized" among Republicans)