Back to Internetreality
Posted: November 3, 2010 Filed under: The Media SUCKS 52 CommentsI’ve been on the internet (well, a very primitive version of it where you dial directly to another computer) since 
around 1981. I’ve owned a PC since then too. I’ve lost two hard drives during the entire time and both have been in the last 2 years when believe me, the last thing I need to do is lose a hard drive. You cannot possibly imagine what it’s like to lose you entire research agenda, literature, data, papers, and programs in one fell swoop and not be able to come near them for about five days except what little remains on your flash drive. Fortunately, I have Mozy, but now I’m finding the challenges of restoring that along with all the software updates and every thing else. I’ve got to completely get my computer to feel like home again. It feels like some stranger’s desk top. I’ve been at it since about 1:00 this afternoon and I’m no where close to it. I pray this never happens to any of you. Recovering all of this stuff is just taking me hours and I’m a nervous wreck.
So, any way, I’m trying to get back to surfing the web instead of switching between news channels to see what the deal is with the new reality. The most fun all day I’ve had was watching all the reporters running around the Congressional offices playing “Where’s Nancy”? ABC news evidently scored THE interview.
“Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important,” she told ABC News. “Now it’s time to move on.”
Pelosi said she had “no regrets” after losing her position as the most powerful woman in American politics and said the country’s unemployment problem was to blame for the Democrats’ loss.
“We believe we did the right thing, and we worked very hard in our campaigns to convey that to the American people,” she said. “Nine and a half percent unemployment is a very eclipsing event. If people don’t have a job, they’re not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.”
Asked to assess her tenure, Pelosi quickly answered, “Job well done.”
You can watch Diane Sawyer’s interview at the link. I won’t post it here. I’ve got Bodhisattva vows to consider.
I admit to not watching the returns on MSNBC but The Daily Beast apparently was amused. Did you see this?
Matthews asked Bachmann if she was hypnotized. Olbermann feared the Tea Party would eat away at the Earth’s core. O’Donnell prepared for the Rand Paul end times. WATCH VIDEO of the liberal network’s most distraught moments on Election Night.
MABlue pointed over to Krugman’s blog in the last thread. Woah! The koolaid detox is official there! He was watching Obama’s presser too.
Urk. I just gave up on the presidential press conference. When Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats in part because “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn’t change how things got done,” I checked out.
Nobody cares about this stuff — they care about results. Nobody really cares about earmarks; they’re just code for spending less (less on somebody else, of course, not me). Nobody cares about civility and bipartisanship, which in practice are code for Democrats giving in to Republican demands. Nobody cares about parliamentary maneuvers: we can argue about the role of health reform in the election, but I bet not one voter in 50 knows or cares that it was passed using reconciliation (as were the sacred Bush tax cuts we must, must retain).
Over at Think Progress, Yglesias thinks Obama Should Move to the White House.
Rather than plunge into the debate over whether Obama should “move to the center” or adopt tactics of high-intensity conflict with congressional Republicans let me suggest another tack. A day contains 24 hours. That’s true for you, for me, for John Boehner, and for Barack Obama. But Obama has more job responsibilities than Boehner, and both of them have more responsibilities than I do. So it’s important for the President to think about how he wants to spend his time.
Okay, who wants to be the first to take THAT one on?
I really was going to save this one for the morning reads, but if we’re discussing the day after stuff, we need something a little wacky to put everything into perspective. The UK Telegraph says that China is selling Obama sex dolls. That’s just about the perfect gift for the Obot on your holiday list. And I thought groping card board cut outs was foul. I can’t even reach low enough for words to describe using the image of the leader of the free world for that sort of thing.
I’m going to carry on until I feel at home!
So what was your weirdest day after moment today?
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My weirdest moment, without a doubt, is reading about Obama sex dolls. Ewwwwww!
I know. It’s like gross and disrespectful all rolled up into one big EWWWWWW!
I agree. However, I also agree with Dak’s idea about it being a great present for Obots. Must give anonymously though, of course…
Didn’t have a day after moment. I was hoping the Obacrats would lose big. They did. Case closed. Lets see if they learned a lesson. Next focus is who will challenge Obumbles first.
About the doll. I bet Obumbles buys one and makes Michelle use it so that he can see what he looks like making whoopie.
Asshat.
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okay, that was a visual I didn’t need …
Look at the bright side.
Damnit, there is no bright side with Obumbles.
Oh well……
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If I can get my computer restored, I’m going to try to do something on the QE2 thingie tomorrow. I can’t believe how long it’s taking to transfer stuff back into the hard drive. I am glad to be able to do more stuff here. It went down when I was working on the links and the column things. I’m trying to figure out if I want to add RSS feeds. I was checking to see if some of the blogs I linked to were still active and I lost an entire group of them. Yet another thing I have to recover.
Oh, dear god. If Obama buys the only one sold, we all know it won’t be Michelle using it. Aiiiiiyeeeeeeeeeeee. For a second there, I thought the article said a “Maobama” sex toy blending Mao and Obama’s faces had become a best seller. Thankfully, “Maobama” is just a t-shirt.
My second weirdest moment was reading TheRock’s comment about the doll!
Now you can’t tell me you can’t picture Obumbles being Obumbles with props…..
Oh, no, I believe that … I just didn’t want to even THINK about it …
Then my work here is done!! 😛
yup, job well done, very WELL done
I really don’t want to. Really.
Well, I can tell I’m back on line. I’ll need to stock up on eye bleach.
LMAO!!!
I do think however that the Dims have no excuse not wake up. He has already indicated that he will concede even MORE ground to the RNC. This is the proverbial ‘…it’s going to get worst before it gets better…’ time prior to Hillary getting to 1600 Penn Ave.
Hopefully, more and more of the talking heads will realize this as well. A keen eye to the president’s approval rating (my magic number is 35%) will still determine Dimocratic unrest. I have complete fate in the course being plotted by the Clintons’. They will enter at the right time and have the right message – again. And this time, the country will listen.
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I’m not sure I have any premonitions about anything at this point. He looked really rattled this morning at the presser and said it was a ‘wake-up’ call. How could he have not seen this coming a mile away? He’s just like a few of the senate races had really nutso Tea Party people or the senate could’ve gone red too. It’s hard to tell what he’s going to do. Depends on what’s more important to him. Getting bills passed or having adoring throngs during the 2012 election cycle.
You’ve just highlighted my complete disenfranchisement with this WH and this president. This election was A WAKE UP CALL??? The signs have been brewing since early this year! Obumbles didn’t see the loss in Mass as a call by the electorate to change directions? People protesting about JOBS JOBS JOBS in lieu of healthcare wasn’t something he should pay attention to?? That is why I called him a bad actor. If all of a sudden now he see that something is afoot in this country, then he is unfit as a leader. Period.
John Smart had a great post yesterday about what this election means.
http://johnwsmart.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/notes-on-last-night/#more-1379
The absolute shame that the DNC should feel if it comes second in the race to put qualified minorities in positions of power will be matched only by the absolute corruption of the Nixon administration.
Asshats.
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The presser was an hour, but there were some things he said that seemed to indicate that he still thinks he just hasn’t messaged it correctly. You really should watch it. He was totally unscripted and I think it was very revealing in many ways both good and bad.
The bit that I could stand to watch showed EXACTLY that. I have no patience for a leader that screws the people and says its a PR problem. That is why I am so much of a Hillary fan. You may not always like what she has to say, but it comes from a foundation built on HELPING PEOPLE. When the dems lost the majority in ’94, and even when he was campaigning for this midterm, the problems people told President Clinton they were facing were real, and he recognized that. Time and time again, he proposed policy that was popular because it was policy aimed at helping everyday Americans. He didn’t blame democrats, then or now, for not voting. He said its time to work even harder.
Obumbles feels bad. He took a thumping. Nothing new was revealed. I bet he takes another vacation right after he gets back from his vacation in India.
2012 can’t get here soon enough.
Asshat.
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He didn’t see it coming because he believes his own hype, like all narcissists. He really thought all those visits across the country, spreading the joy of his megawatt smile, scolding his base like school children, would make everything hunky dory.
It makes me despair, really. Shows that he really can’t see anything true about this country, because if he did, it might reflect badly upon himself. Such as, unemployment hurts.
Edited to add: I see Rock made some of the same points above. Great minds think alike and all that, is what I’m claiming! 🙂
Mary Daly wrote her last book on her computer and one day it just crashed and the entire book went POOF! Just like that. She was *not* a happy camper. Luckily, she had a hard copy back-up of the book. I know you have awful lot of stuff on your computer, dak, but maybe it would be best for you if you made hard copy back-ups of your stuff too. I know, then you’d have to have a physical file cabinet for it, but it might be better than what you go through now when your computer crashes.
Personally, I was keeping medical records on my dog Brandy on my computer, backed up on floppy disk, and all of a sudden one day, POOF! It was all gone, and the floppy was erased too. Computer technology is great, but can be very temperamental and unpredictable.
well, it is all backed up actually … restoring it all is no easy task at all
one of the weirder things that’s restoring right now is an email I got from a friend before he committed suicide 2 years ago.
wow.
yeah, he was trying to convince me that if Obama wasn’t elected all the wars would be vamped up and his children and mine would wind up in Afghanistan or Iraq. He was a vietnam vet and he never really got over whatever it was he saw. I remember telling him that Obama was calling Afghanistan the “good” war and I didn’t think I wouldn’t put it past him to amp things up. It’s odd to look at that exchange now. He killed himself about a few months before the primaries.
That is really chilling….
A true keepsake.
Wow is right — it’s like he’s speaking from the dead.
yeah, mostly I try to remember him the last time he visited down here and we had a great day in the Quarter. Like I said, he never ever got pass Viet Nam. He was a Theravada Buddhist after being raised Catholic. None of those practices could really bring him peace. His kids are just superlative. I just couldn’t image him doing that to them. He must’ve really been in pain and most of us just missed it. But he was picking horrible fights with several of us before he died. Actually, there’s an RIP for him in this blog and he posted here several times. You have to go WAY back to the archives and the beginning of the blog to find them. That’s the posts that really haunt me.
https://dakiniland.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/not-exactly-sure-how-to-do-this/
This was the post that memorialized him. You have to go back behind it to see his comments.
He sounds like a really nice man. That’s so sad.
“History” is about to be revisited once again with the release of George W. Bush’s tome this month. That weasel will be busy making the rounds oblivious to all he has wrought and the Right Wing will be standing alongside “revising” right along with him.
While Obama seeks “compromise” with the same people who have roadblocked him from Day 1, look for the GOP to sing the praises of W with words of praise for the “courage” he showed during those frightful 4 years in preparation for whomever achieves the nomination in 2012. All the “bad stuff” will be spun into gold as the nation takes on another bout of amnesia and a pining away for the “way things could have been”.
Since one interview allows an admission that his worst moment as president was when Kanye West referred to him as a “racist” this sets the stage for this man to absolve his sins by pretending that the mess he left was “nothing much” in the face of a rap singer calling him out.
And there will be enough people out there willing to go along with this mendacity because it is easier to buy into the lie than to call it out.
I give up.
I’ve heard THREE Republican pundits mention how great Jeb Bush would be as a Republican candidate that would keep every one happy. Mark My Words. This is part and parcel of a Bush name restoration tour. They’re testing the waters for Jeb and if this gets us to feel any better about Dubya, my guess is Jeb will start little trips to New Hampshire and Iowa.
Jeb or not, I have a feeling that the other little surprise the GOP has cooking is having Liz Cheney run as Veep. This sets the stage for the “female” vote by having a name on the ticket that is sure to attract some out there still smarting over Hillary in 2008.
Bad as he is, I see Obama limping even further from the finish line in 2012 if he has to contend with that possibility as many women will see this action as a “vindication” somehow of Hillary’s defeat at his hands.
This is where it will get dicey. Unless he finally rouses himself from the torpor he seems to be in, we may be looking a full house of Repubs achieving all 3 branches.
Stepping aside is just not part of his DNA.
“Boddhisattva vows.”
I see one is not to kill any living creatures. Not kidding, but seriously, does that go for cockroaches? When I was growing up I killed many cockroaches. Years later, I left the door to my apartment open for light and air. It had no screen and I got about 20 flies in the apartment and I caught them all and released them outside after closing the door for the night.
yeah, it includes not stomping on palmetto bugs and cockroaches. I do follow HHDL’s lead on mosquitoes however. He says he wants to save them the karma of giving him malaria.
In that case, he only kills the females. Only the females bite.
There goes my karma. And I was only a little thing too. I didn’t kill them for the sake of killing them, we lived in the Bronx, they lived in the walls and they came out and infested the kitchen at night, hundreds of them. It felt necessary so they wouldn’t overcome, attack and eat me themselves. I had nightmares about them.
There’s lots of things that go into the karma equation like intent and knowledge of it being a bad action. If you intentionally harm something and enjoy it … very very bad karma. Unintentional harm or harm done from ignorance has a different level of consequences. That is, however, a lot like debating how many angels dance on the head of pin. You can’t really tell how every thing will resonate. However, generally, harmful and bad intent carries the worst karma.
Well, there was no harmful or bad intent and certainly no enjoyment. Just fear and terror of them.
I am in awe that you can fix your own computer. The computer deities are punishing me now. My computer will not show the Submit Comment button on MB’s new site. It appeared twice and then vanished. I can’t figure it out.
I would be helpless if the hard drive crashed again. Ohh technology!
For some reason, I’m hopeless with other things like fax machines and dvd players, but computers I get … go figure! And great to see you!!!
So it’s important for the President to think about how he wants to spend his time.
You mean like forgoing the pleasure of appearing on Mythbusters??
lol
The UK Telegraph says that China is selling Obama sex dolls.
If thy can combined it with the Obama chi-chi-chia planter ….they may have something
there
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I wore my Team Hillary shirt today. When asked, I told people that it was my not particularly subtle way of saying Told You So. As glad as I am that the Dems got spanked, I’m not excited about the legislation that’s going to happen in the next two years. It makes me miss Canada.
Good idea, I think I’ll bring my Hillary tees out as well. The partner has worn his to a rag, need to figure out a way to replace it.
Hi, love the blog and glad I found it. I can totally feel for you, had to reformat my ancient dell desktop yesterday. Somehow it crashed (for the fourth time) and stangely no one will cop to being on it when it happened (kids). I can’t believe I got that thing going again (knocks wood), especially cuz I pretty much have no clue what I am doing when I am fixing it. Lost everything on it but luckily most of “important” stuff is on this one.
Watched some of the Pelosi interview, Nora Desmond came to mind immediately.
Wishing you much success on the blog, always enjoyed you at TC, even though I mostly lurk.
That Nora Desmond reference is a total keeper!!! Glad to see you and lurk and speak up frequently!!!