From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #706 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, September 10 2008 Volume 16 : Number 706 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll [2fs ] Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll ["Stewart Russell" ] Amazon's new music wiki, SoundUnwound.com [Will Bueche ] That's What *I'm* Talkin' About! ["Stacked Crooked" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:44:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll On 9/9/08, FSThomas wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > >> On 9/9/08, *FSThomas* > fsthomas@ochremedia.com>> wrote: >> >> And how different is that than shiny object known as "Barack Obama"? >> >> >> If you're comparing Obama's media appeal to Palin's...well, in addition to >> fascinating the media, Obama also won primary elections in a lengthy, >> extended battle with a well-funded and hugely favored candidate. I believe >> that suggests his appeal is slightly more than ephemeral. >> > > Which election is that? Uh, hello? The primaries? Against Hillary Clinton? While I don't know a lot about Palin I would trust her (or any state > Governor, for that matter) over Obama in that she's actually accountable for > her actions. When she spends money she's accountable for it. Oh - you mean the $20 million debt she left in a town of 7,500 or so? That accountability? Or as governor: "Accountable" how? She hasn't run for re-election yet...then, incumbents win races in this country at ridiculous rates, and when they belong to the party that's dominant in a region, they win even more often. Alaska is, of course, heavily Republican. She's *theoretically* accountable - but frankly, that theoreticality is no more or less theoretical than the fact that senators and representatives also run for re-election. The theory is that voters size up the candidates' achievements (in the case of incumbents), qualifications, rhetoric, personality, integrity, etc., and cast votes. I fail to see how a governor is more or less "accountable" than a senator or representative - it's unlikely that there's going to be a recall, for example (although possible, I think). Regardless: Obama has certainly accomplished a lot more in his 46 years than Palin has in her 44. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:23:13 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll 2008/9/9 FSThomas : > > While I don't know a lot about Palin I would trust her (or any state > Governor, for that matter) over Obama in that she's actually accountable for > her actions. When she spends money she's accountable for it. The Senate? > They just spend it. The accounting comes later. I'm not sure about that. It would seem that Alaska has a colossal tax burden, and is a federal cash basket-case: Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics - - TIME . But then, I only have Time's word for it. It asks me to ask my doctor about things, and you know where that leads. > There's no wonder so few Presidents come out of the congress. Honestly. I just read that as 'Palestinians', in the same way as I usually read about the Farmers of the Constitution. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:29:01 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:22 PM, FSThomas wrote: > While I don't know a lot about Palin I would trust her (or any > state Governor, for that matter) over Obama in that she's actually > accountable for her actions. You can say this after Bush has shit on the country for going on 8 years? Come on FS, she's Tracy Flick, and it's more obvious each passing day. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:56:02 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: McCain Moves Ahead of Obama in Poll >> How was Kilpatrick /not/ a d-bag of the first order? >> I'm guessing five years out of prison he'll pull a Marion Barry >> and run again and (quite possibly) get re-elected. On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > He goes to the big house later this month, and will be out by the > end of January 2009. He can run for office after his 5 year > probation is over in 2014, but I'm thinking he probably wouldn't > survive a primary. His mom, Caroline Cheeks-Kilpatrick, barely > survived in her bid for returning to Congress last month. Sucks to be him, 2 years earlier and he could bag a gig as the candidate of the Green Party. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:02:18 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Wonder-Eb Powers Activate: Form Of...An ASS-RIFLE! er, that should've read "one-fiftieth of one-half of one percent *of a fuck*". <...it's totally legit for him to complain/point out that people are so dumb or inattentive that they're missing the point. I give him mad props for saying from the start that it was an 'evil song about domination and surveillance" instead of taking the happy-dappy "oh, the masses love it, and it's their song now, whatever they think is fine," etc.> well, he was happy to take their money. and, protestations aside, he can't not have known that the reason the song was so popular was that people were only listening to the chorus, and not the verses. i guess i'd not feel he were such a shit if he'd, say, donated a buncha money to a domestic violence charity. i agree, it's stupid. but their stupidity isn't hurting anybody; so why should anybody else worry about it? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:36:54 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: potential "feg" spotting? On Sep 9, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: > spending an afternoon at the Ballpark at Arlington with Steve. Two music geeks baking their brains in the summer sun, at least for the first few innings. Miles is an actual baseball fan, I just go for the peanuts. If I start saving now, and Miles comes through in year or so, we could take in a Cowboys game at Jerry's Billion Dollar Wonder Structure. It's just 4 or 5 long passes from the ballpark. (Just "fly to" cowboys stadium arlington texas on Google Earth, although the picture is almost a year old). Edifice worship here . - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:15:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Will Bueche Subject: Amazon's new music wiki, SoundUnwound.com Amazon's new music wiki SoundUnwound.com is in beta and so if you're inclined to toil for no obvious reward, the Robyn Hitchcock -- and the Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians -- entries could use your input. Much is already there, but these sorts of discographies tend to improve when more experts pile on. I added a couple cover scans of cd singles (SoundUnwound seems to like 600 pixels x 600 pixels). And someone has been adding some of the more obscure titles already (like the Spectre promo). But come on around if you feel inclined to improve it some more. Thanks. (I am just a fan, not related to Amazon or SoundunWound). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:54:27 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: attn: iTunes Windows experts What is with the latest versions of normally reliable applications? (Details: WinXP SP2) Last week I upgraded to Firefox 3.0...and it was so slow, particularly on its initial open after startup, that I reverted back to vers. 2. Now yesterday, I download iTunes 8.0...and not only is it full of useless crap (i.e., "Genius"), it can no longer handle simultaneously playing music and ripping from CD. It periodically stutters as it plays. So I'm thinking of going back to vers. 7-something... In one of the iTunes discussion forums on the Apple site, someone posted a link to oldapps.com, which had 7.6-something for download. First question: should I trust that? I couldn't find a link to d/l 7.7 (the most recent pre-8 version) on the Apple site. Second: It would appear that I might run into trouble if I uninstall 8 and rollback to 7, although the forums have a workaround involving copying the iTunes Library.itl and Music Library.xml files, removing the ones set up by the rollback install, and editing the .itl and .xml files in a text editor so they reflect the correct version number ("7.6.2" say instead of "8.0") in one of the strings. That doesn't bother me...but the same forum item (it's on this page: < http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7577642�>) says I should uninstall "iTunes, Quicktime, Bonjour, Mobile device support and Apple software updater". I'm wondering about the functionality, after all this, of AirPort Express. I'm also wondering, of course, whether all of the above is necessary or a good idea. I'm also thinking that if we weren't in the midst of remodeling our house (a/k/a Cash Suck), I'd be on my way to an Apple Store right now - more & more my laptop (several years old) is being quirky, and no way am I getting anything w/Vista on it. My own level of knowledge and time makes Linux seem like doing Bo Derek's hair every morning (w/o any possible side benefits thereof, if we mean the '70s Bo Derek of course). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:50:36 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: That's What *I'm* Talkin' About! from : >>The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch sausage.<< ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #706 ********************************