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The Tale of Kochheaded Dave

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

Poor little Davey Koch. Someone punked his Governor, and now he’s crying about “Identity Theft”

 

Yes, children, gather round and hear a tale of Poor Kochheaded Dave.
Dave was so wealthy, even he was impressed by it, and thought he was Master of the World. One day, while Kochheaded Dave was petting his second favorite pet, it was an oddly adorable, yet vicious little beast called a “teaparty”, his first, another vicious, yet unadorable beast called a “Walker” was being tutored in the art of deception.

A man, an alien being known as a “Journalist”, picked up his telephone, and made a call to the pet, Walker, and knowing he wouldn’t get to talk to the Walker if he revealed himself, pretended to be Kochheaded Dave. Hilarity ensued as the Walker rolled over and exposed his throat to the Pretender as the Pretender played his unpaid role. The Pretender, when he had had his fill, ended the call, and revealed himself to the World. Now, this revelation caused the Walker great anguish at having been revealed to be the pet of Kochheaded Dave, and Dave. Well, Kochheaded Dave was outraged at the humiliation of his pet Walker, and the admission that he, Kochheaded Dave owned such a pet.

Thinking about what recourse he had, Kochheaded Dave went to the press and declared:

“It’s a case of identity theft,” Koch told the New York Times in a rare interview Friday. “I didn’t even know his name before this brouhaha erupted.”

Poor Kochheaded Dave was beside himself (his favorite sexual position) and “joked”:

“I was thinking to myself, ‘My God, if I called up a senator or a congressman to discuss something with them, and they heard ‘David Koch is on the line,’ they’d immediately say, ‘That’s that fraud again — tell him to get lost!'” he said.

And, you know, that Senator would be quite correct in that assessment.

x-posted to DailyKos

Ghimeabragh, twitter

Rightwing Sleight of Mouth or the Right tries to redefine “Blood Libel”

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

I’ve decided to update this post with the entire exchange. oldest tweet to last. I am ExitPass

grivno Ben Grivno
Did you know that it’s impossible for historic terms to take on a broader meaning? So sayeth the Blood Libel obsession crowd! #TeaParty #p2
@grivno Blood Libel has a vry specific meaning. 1 that incited, & still incites anti-Jewish sentiment. It’s bn adopted by the Arab states.
@ExitPass Language is not a permanent fixture. the meaning of terms can broaden. the obsessive focus on a single term looks kinda crazy.
@grivno so, “nazi” no longer means “white supremicist“? “Christkiller” no longer means “Jew“? “Spic” no longer refers 2 “hispanics”? Gotcha
@ExitPass “racist” no longer means “one who believes his/her race is superior.” now it means “one who opposes the progressive agenda”
@grivno (cont) So,#Giffords accused Palin of “Blood Libel” when she criticized the “surveyor’s” symbol ovr her “surveyed” district as provacative?

From: @grivno
Sent: Jan 12, 2011 7:51p

@ExitPass the “blood” part refers to group of genetically-related people, this could expand to mean ideologically-related people

@grivno nice try. As a Jew, I KNOW whaT it means, and it means “Jews murder christians and use their blood in matzoh”. THAT’S what It means

@ExitPass I was setting up a logic framework, not dissing your intelligence. I figured U knew what it meant.

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Good Days/Bad Days

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

and those days in between. As a brain injury “survivor” (I need another word, as it’s not something you “live through and get over”), I have good and not so good days/weeks/months even years. I’m in the midst of a not-so-good-spell. to say more would be “attention seeking” and “whiny”. No one really cares. except me. friends “care” as long as they aren’t really asked to step up to the plate and take action, they really prefer you pay someone to hear you “whine” and “attention seek”.

Maybe it’s New York, but growing up in California, if my friends needed to talk, I was there to listen, as they were for me.

Ghimeabragh

Sleep Deprivation…

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

In my ongoing battle against my landlord and bedbugs, who as far as I am concerned are no different in that they are both uncaring unfeeling greedy little bloodsuckers, I can now claim sleep deprivation.

“But 40 year old magpie,” you ask, “how can you tell?”

Simple. I’m on the verge of tears when talking to my lawyer about this. I only cry when I”m either extremely upset or very tired.

They did what passes for them as “extermination” one week ago. Listen, Charlie, a certification in the handling of poisons used for the eradication of vermin does not mean you are expert at eradicating them. Quite the contrary. I had to point out an area for you to spray, you moved nothing than a foam seat a bit away from a wall, sprayed the cat toy and blanket when you sprayed by the radiator, you sprayed my cat’s food rather than be bothered to ask me to move them,I asked you to stop so I could move them. You failed to spray the entire living/sleeping area of my studio. Oh, wait, that would have required you to actually know what the fuck you were doing. A professional would have taken 4 – 6 hours to exterminate.You took a total of perhaps 30 minutes with a “water-based” pesticide that didn’t do shit for eradicating the little parasites from the sofabed, let alone the the apartment. Oh, I’m sure you believe they are gone, and that no one ever complained to you before.

Oh, and thanks for telling me you had no intention of honoring the Stip. Makes my case to the Judge when we go back to L/T Court that much easier.

Ghimeabragh

There was a very good reason I didn’t give the money to the Court

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

July 20, 2010, I signed a stip agreement with the Calello Agency in the presence of their lawyer, that in return for paying my July rent , they’d make repairs and exterminate bedbugs by the end of July. That didn’t happen, as I knew it would go down that way.

On Aug 2, I hand-delivered this letter:

August 2, 2010
[Address removed]
Dear M—,
Under the terms of the stip we (You, the Agency Lawyer and I) signed on 20 July 2010, certain conditions were to me be met in order for the rent of July 2010 t be paid.
My July/August rent is now in escrow pending the complete fulfillment of the July 20 stip.
Unfortunately, there is more to that stip than simply providing me that which should have been provided in March when I took possession of my apartment located at [address removed], namely my mailbox key; I am still awaiting the following portions of the stip to be addressed:
The broken window
the torn screen
the fire escape (Charlie coming in with a workman to “measure” or any other nonsense meant to assuage me that it is being addressed will not be considered addressing this safety issue)
The bedbugs. Under NJ state law, you are obligated to deal immediately with the issue, not three plus months or longer after being informed of the infestation. Again, Charlie coming in to improperly deal with this issue will not be considered to be fulfilling the stip. The chemical used is highly toxic, and if the way Charlie “sprayed” for roaches is an indication, the result will only bed bugs that are more resistant to the chemical than they are at present.

If you or Charlie cannot reach me by phone, it takes little effort for Charlie to stop by and slide a note under my door regarding the above issues. Unless of course, Charlie   (or you) prefers to be required by Court order to act.

Sincerely yours,
[my signature]

Please note, I indicated in the letter, that I was withholding both July and August as they had not honored the agreement. There was no objection to my withholding my July rent at that time. Fast forward to August 13, 2 days after they got around to repairing the windows and “exterminating”: I was mailed a three day notice to quit for, get this; NON-PAYMENT OF RENT. They went to get the withheld monies from the court without completing the terms of the Stip – fixing the fire escape, and got spanked.To make it better, Charlie intimated, that they weren’t going to make the fire escape repair, saying that the struts under the landing was sufficient.

The missing fire escape bolt and brick

The same day as I received the letter, I was the recipient of this as well:

The pestcide sure worked, Charlie

I’m still being bit. They want me out. I’m looking for relief for the breach of contract.

Ghimeabragh, oil on velvet, Rumours Gin Mill

About that “Takeover” by Los Zetas in Laredo….

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

Over at examiner.com, where I am a photojournalist, there’s a lively thread regarding an article written by another examiner, who without citing her sources except as “anonymous” Laredo PD, wrote a piece of fiction about two ranches OUTSIDE the Laredo PD jurisdiction, being taken over by members of the Los Zetas drug cartel. One of the channel managers doesn’t seem to upset at the “reporters” lack of veracity, so, I answered with this:

According to Bob Owens, a blogger over at Andrew Breitbart’s biggovernment.com, the Examiner who broke “broke” the story is refusing to confirm her sources to him. Now, biggovernment is itself right wing, having been responsible for the destruction of ACORN through selectively edited video by James O’Keefe,(I should also point out, that ACORN has been cleared of wrongdoing, but the goal has been achieved) and caused the firing of Ms. Sherrod again by selectively edited video. Mr. Owens, while still blaming the Obama Admin. for the hoax, still calls everyone who promoted it:
http://biggovernment.com/bowens/2010/07/25/whats-wrong-with-laredo-part-i/

Cypress News publisher John G. Winder is sticking with the story, not because any additional evidence has been produced, but because the two sources for his version of the story, blog Digger’s Realm and Examiner.com’s San Diego (CA) County Political Buzz Examiner blogger Kimberly Dvorak are standing by their militiamen and anonymous police sources.

The original Cypress Times story? A re-publication of the original Digger’s Realm story.

The Digger’s Realm story? Two anonymous Laredo police sources and a San Diego California Minuteman named Jeff Schwilk who claims he got his information from… an anonymous Laredo PD officer.

San Diego County Poltical Buzz Examiner Kimberly Dvorak? She claims her information also comes from two anonymous Laredo PD sources.

Are we noticing a pattern here? Every bit of of this claim, which has now scattered far and wide across the Internet, can be traced back to two anonymous police department sources of a police department that does not even have jurisdiction where the alleged invasion is taking place.

I read a wide variety of news sources, be they rightwing or left, as it makes more informed. I also know that as a blogger, a blogger that has been cited on NPR and CBS.com, I have to cite my sources if I am writing about an article I read, and provide a link back to that original article so my readers can form their own opinions.
IMHO, unless we are more scrupulous in citing sources, and not making up things our of whole cloth, examiner.com will become irrelevant.
Even for me, a mere photojournalist. While I do not have to get written permission to photograph a storefront, I seek a written release if I want to shoot the interior and anyone inside. I know, that I can shoot the exterior of Prudential Arena, and there is nothing that the security can do short of assaulting me. I know, that I cannot shoot inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, PERIOD, but it’s ok at NY Penn Station and Newark’s Penn Station. What’s the point of this? To illustrate that as reporters/citizen journalists, we have a responsibility to our readers not to gin up fears by posting fiction as fact.

You want to be a citizen journalist? Then, be one. You want to be a fiction writer? Fine, but don’t couch it as journalism

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Jew haters are Cowards

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

I did a /whois for the domain, and these brave lads are hiding behind DOMAINS BY PROXY.

Man up and show us how small your balls are

Call for Genocide, by the usual cowardly paranoid suspects:

About Us

We are an international team of security experts that consider the Jewish community to be a National and International Security Threat. We have compiled evidence from various different sources in proving our point as to which group of people (Jews) are perpetrating most of the terrorist attacks today and blaming it on others (Muslims, White Nationalists).

Whether you look at terrorist attacks like the Lockerbie bombings, the first World Trade Center attacks in 1993, the Alfred P Murrah building in Oklahoma City, the Kenya and Tanzania Embassy bombings, the USS Cole attacks, 9-11, 7-7, 3-11, or bombings throughout India, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Occupied Palestine, Pakistan,the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Trinidad, and elsewhere, you will see Jews as being the main perpetrators despite the fabricated narratives and official convictions of innocent Muslims. The Jews have been identified as a security threat for anyone and everyone, including themselves. Where are the human rights groups protecting the rights of innocent Muslims falsely accused of terrorism? Why are they not targetting Jewish terrorists?

….

Furthermore, we do recognize that the frame ups of completely innocent Muslims is only a symptom of the problem. The problem is that the Jewish community has plunged its tentacles into too many spheres within the civilizational and cultural institutions of these countries. They are involved in banking, commerce, education, government, law, media, medicine, religion, and last but not least – matters of national and international security (which can mean the ultimate life and death of society). Here are the key pointers that we must always keep in mind when dealing with the Jewish question:
– Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community.
– Get the Jews out of education and they cannot pervert the minds of the young.
– Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.
– Get the Jews out of media and they cannot defile the culture.
– Get the Jews out of medicine and they cannot invalidate the Hippocratic oath
– Get the Jews out of law and they cannot corrupt the truth.

Last but not least: get the Jews out of National Security and they cannot engage in terrorist attacks or open the gates to the enemies: both external or internal.

Thus, we will end this by saying that the End of the Jews is near at hand. Can you imagine what a world would be like without anymore Jews?

Filthy Jewish Terrorists | Terrorism is a jewish invention..

Ghimeabragh, Vocal Booth

LaCie’s “Little Disk” will damage your Harddrive

Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

and, here’s why:

in April, I purchased a LaCie “Little Disk” it has a small footprint and a built-in USB cable. I thought that was pretty neat. Then I got it home. Every time I shifted my laptop, it unmounted.

here’s the conversation I have going with LaCie Wreck Support:
First, they tried to tell me, my 2Ghz mac was too slow:

So I give him the specs to my mac & he responds by tell;ing the same f$cking thing:

So, they send me the damned “Power sharing cable which is really just a USB cable that plugs into the drive. Didn’t work. So, a few weeks ago, I get this email from them:

Valued LaCie Customer,

we’re sorry that you’ve been inconvenienced by an issue with your LaCie product.

Please be assured that we will do our best to quickly provide you with a fully functional unit.

We would ask that you carefully read and follow the instructions as detailed in the attached document. Please also make sure you print and stick the attached delivery note on the external package you will use to send your defective unit back to us.

Please also note that this document is not an Air Waybill allowing you to send the defective product at our own cost, and can never be used as such.

Sincerely

LaCie Technical Support.

That’s right, they are telling me that if I want the thing repaired/replaced, I have to

  • 1)buy a new external HD
    2) transfer the files,, since they will be wiping the drive
    3)send it back at my cost

    • Are the serious? S, I responded with the following email to Wreck Support:

    Dear Tech Support

    If I am such a “Valued LaCie Customer”, I’m certain you are desirous of
    keeping me as such.I have come to a decision concerning my LaCie
    product: You are going to replace it. NOW. You will send me a new
    External HD that is not a “Little Disk”, but with a comparable portable
    250G drive if none is available, then a 320G. I find it equally
    preposterous, that you are requiring me to first, buy a new drive to
    back up my files and then I HAVE to pay for the return? I don’t think
    so. You will send me a replacement drive with an RMA. I will then
    transfer my files to the replacement and return this PoS to you along
    with the cable you sent all conveniently stored inside the case I bought
    for it.

    So far, I have had to repair my Internal HD twice today due to this
    perfectly awful drive. Yes, your “Little Disk” has f$cked my Internal HD
    and has stopped my workflow until I can replace it.

    I am a Very peeved “Valued LaCie Customer”

    I CC’d sales on this. I think, I’m buying a portable WD MyBook Studio.

    update:Spoke to LaCie TechSupport, seems that embedded in that warranty, that no one ever needs is the fact any warranty return is on the customers dime. Also, tech@lacie.com is /dev/null SWEET they send you an email, you reply, and never hear back, because they don’t monitor the inbox. This “Valued LaCie Customer” is going elsewhere for her drives. oh, and what good IS a external harddrive if you have to have a back up for that and a back up for the back up and so on? LaCie Tech, you are lusers

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    Trust.

    Posted on by The 40 year old magpie

    what is the basis? why is it betrayed? been pondering these questions of late. I’m guilty of betraying a trust. I was forgiven for that transgression, and I’ve been very mindful about what that word implies: I am willing to carry the weight of your joys, innermost secrets, and fears. I do this gladly, for that is what a friend does.

    I’ve been betrayed. More than once. I’ve been lied to. Multiple times, all while the backfriend says “oh, no, not me”.

    What has it come to? A choosing between friends. See, I know who the wronged, betrayed party is. And, my backfriend, it isn’t you.

    “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friederich Nietzsche

    “Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!”- JK Rowling