Monthly Archives: May 2009

FT.com / UK – Microsoft primes search engine in pursuit of Google

From the Pointless Task desk, Microsoft thinks it can reinvent their search wheel.

First off: why bother? Live was, is, and probably always will be crap. I’d have better luck searching for useful results with a scrying bowl. And I’m no sorceror.

Second, most of the damn planet is trained to use Google. Accept that. Move on.

Third. I take it all back. This should be funny as hell to watch Microsoft spend billions to fall on it’s face again. And again.

I mean, they are losing the ad war to Apple when the Mac is an overpriced piece of eye candy with proprietary hardware. How do you not beat that in the marketplace of ideas? Even with buggy software. They’ve lost the geek crowd almost entirely to Linux. Seriously, give out some free OSes, open it up, and let the hobby crowd fix your errors for you. THEN sell it to Grandma in a prepackaged box at Beast Buy. Come on!

Microsoft: too big to fall, but not so big that their screwups can be covered up.

Hubble’s final servicing mission – The Big Picture – Boston.com

These are amazing pics taken from the recent shuttle mission that finally made it home on Sunday.

Whatever happened to the American imagination? We should be colonizing the local planets, not quibbling over whether or nation should be partaking in barbaric torture rituals. We’ve fallen far from Camelot folks. Someone needs to take our Luddite Talibangelical Quislings aside and beat them silly for sullying our nation’s good name.

Border Patrol Officers Rip Up Birth Certificates of Latino Teens

Our Border Patrol agents work hard to protect the line. And, having crossed back and forth numerous times at a dozen or so different locations, they’ve been friendly enough.

That said, there is always the mirrorshades asswipe just looking to intimidate. To them, anyone brown is an illegal. Anyone not Amurkan as he is is the “enemy”.

It is of this ilk which the following officers belong. To deny the documentation of an American citizen. Actually – to TEAR IT UP – should be some form of felony in a just world.

Sadly, we don’t seem to be living in one.

Bob Cesca: Closing Guantanamo And Ousting Harry Reid

Bob delivers some common sense reality to the topics of Harry Reid’s spineless nature and closing Gitmo. In short, Harry needs to step down and don’t believe the hype of GOP fearmongering on Gitmo inmates.

In short, no one has EVER escaped from SuperMax prisons. Also, Republicans didn’t fear holding over 400,000 Nazis during WWII. So why the big hangup over a couple thousand Muslim extremists now? I mean, the GOP was a racist as the Third Reich then, and as reactionary as al-Qaeda now. Shouldn’t they be welcoming their brothers-in-arms?

Jim Gibbons, In Midst Of Messy Divorce, Plans To Veto Gay Partners Bill

Once again, Nevada politics fails to impress.

Out governor, dirt bag that he is, is planning to veto some gay rights bills. Presumably he is making this decision on the whole “protecting the sanctity of marriage” BS argument that Rethugs use.

Let’s review for a moment Gibboon’s “family values”. During his campaign he was busted trying to seduce a cocktail waitress. He has since gone on to bang a Playboy playmate. Some husband!

But hey, if Gingrich can accuse Clinton of impropriety while having cheated on his wife, why can’t another Rethug be a hypocrite? At least it isn’t “protect the children” Mark Foley trying to have pedophile sex with young boys?

Seriously, what the hell is it with Republicans being sexual degenerates?

Pope’s Wartime Activities Resurface on Israeli Trip – NYTimes.com

I find this sadly funny. Even in Israeli, Ratzinger and his lackeys still can not properly address, explain, or justify his Hitler Youth past.

Yes, it probably isn’t as bad as it looks, but the way it has been handled – rather, bungled – by Nazi Pope and his staff since his days as Cardinal makes it look like they are hiding something. And heck, maybe they are.

Think Progress » GOP Senator Leading Attacks Against Health Care Reform Admits Gitmo Detainees Get Better Care Than Americans

Here in Nevada we have one spineless Senator who, even when handed the reins of power, is impotent in the face of angry fools. His name is Harry Reid.

Our other Senator is a twit. Here is just one example.

Trust me, there are SO many more examples of this man’s ignorance, cruelty, and stupidity.