Yes I know it’s been quite a while…I’m not totally gone yet. But seeing as I just accomplished this feat, I thought I’d show you all:

HOLY FRAK!

Episodes will be posted here as they progress.

Presented without further comment….

The other night I read about a tool which helps to block all the tracking done by social networks, ad networks, and companies on many web sites. It’s called Do Not Track Plus and it’s a FREE DOWNLOAD. Here’s an example:

Frak you, selrahC!
Since installing it, it’s blocked over 500 entities! So yeah, me likey. You should too. It works on Firefox, Safari, Chrome, heck even Internet Exploder for PC users who still torture themselves. Doesn’t work on Opera though.
Go Ye and download and install Do Not Track Plus. The Macker Commands It!

Wow…I actually bought something on eBay for the first time in over two years! You know, sometimes one’s economic situation is a factor, and that was the case for a while. Still is.
One of my friends in town proudly showed me their new Pantech Link II messaging feature phone, and believe it or don’t, I was very impressed with the form factor…being able to comfortably hold it in my hand and hunt-and-peck text out a message on the portrait-format QWERTY keyboard, with buttons that, while conforming to the design, I could actually discern one from another!
At that point I resolved to get the phone, and switch back to AT&T.
I managed to scrounge up the funds to do it, and found a decently priced model someone was selling who only used it for two months while their iPhone was in the shop. I should have it by the end of this week, and then I can take it right away to an AT&T store to activate it as a GoPhone, and be done with Verizon.

And…speaking of eBay, they have a new logo out. Here it is:

Our refreshed logo is rooted in our proud history and reflects a dynamic future. It’s eBay today: a global online marketplace that offers a cleaner, more contemporary and consistent experience, with innovation that makes buying and selling easier and more enjoyable. We retained core elements of our logo, including our iconic color palette. Our vibrant eBay colors and touching letters represent our connected and diverse eBay community – more than 100 million active users and 25 million sellers globally and growing.

Kinda reminds me of Microsoft’s recent brand image revamping. But no matter. And there you have it.

This truly is amusing….

It is rare to hear a politician say, “Of course it was a set up.” But Russian President Vladimir Putin told a Russian journalist that many of his most picturesque media appearances — shooting a tranquilizer dart into a tiger who appeared about to pounce; tagging a wounded snow leopard; and, just this week, wearing a feathery white suit to pilot a glider to guide a group of cranes south for the winter — were staged.
“Of course there are excesses,” he told Masha Gessen in Bolshoi Gorod magazine. But they were constructive deceits, he said, because they called attention to endangered wildlife.
A lot of Russians had been skeptical about President Putin’s highly publicized displays of environmental daring. They thought the tiger looked a little glassy-eyed, and suggested he might have been trucked in from a zoo.
“But I thought up these tigers myself,” Mr. Putin said. “Twenty other countries where tigers live also started taking care of them. ... The leopards were also my idea. Yes, I know they were caught before but the most important thing is to draw public attention to the problem.”

Read the rest. There is a saying in Russia: In Truth there is no News, and in News there is no Truth. Imagine that!

They do not care about History…unless it suits them. Witness the following photo at the close of the Demo☭rat National Convention in Charlotte, wherein an effort to sucker The American People into believing they care about our military, backfires in a most egregious fashion:

The background — featured in the carefully choreographed hour leading up to the president’s Sept. 6 speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination — showed four ships with radar designs not used in the U.S. fleet.
For example, the ship in the foreground, on the far right, has a square radar antenna at the top of its masthead. That is the MR-700 Podberezovik 3-D early warning radar, commonly identified as “Flat Screen” for its appearance, a three-dimensional early warning radar mounted on the Kerch, said Eric Wertheim, editor of “Combat Fleets of the World.”
Similarly, the third ship has a MR-310 “Head Net” air search radar, shaped like two off-set bananas, at its masthead and is mostly likely the guided missile destroyer Smetlivyy. The first two ships seem to be Krivak-class frigates, but it’s hard to discern from the silhouette, experts said.
But the fact they are Russian ships is not in doubt. In addition to the ship’s radar arrays and hulls, which are dissimilar from U.S. warships, the photo features one more give-away: a large white flag with a blue ‘X’ at the ships’ sterns.
Polmar, who authored “The Naval Institute Guide to the Soviet Navy,” recognized the blue ‘X’-mark: “The X is the Cross of St. Andrew’s, which is a Russian Navy symbol,” Polmar said. (An anchored U.S. warship, by contrast, flies the American flag on its stern.)
Based on this specific group of these ship types, one naval expert concluded that this was most likely a photo of the Black Sea Fleet.

These people don’t possess the intestinal fortitude to show the REAL a**-kicking ships of the United States Navy. Yet another reason to reject the Demo☭rat Party come November 6.

Владимир Владимирович may be an autocrat, but he sure is more MANLY than The Empty Chair!

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP)—Vladimir Putin flew a motorized hang glider to lead a flock of young Siberian white cranes in flight, a characteristic stunt for Russia’s action-man, animal-loving president.
Dressed in a white costume meant to imitate an adult crane, Putin was taking part in a project to teach the endangered birds who were raised in captivity to follow the aircraft on their southern migration to Central Asia. It follows a series of adventures for which the Russian leader has become alternately notorious and beloved, from flying a fighter jet to riding a horse bare-chested.

Perhaps Pooty and Romney could have some sort of competition?

After all the upheavals (with emphasis on heave, mind you!) I figured it was time to do one. So here’s the ‘President’ of BFEgypt:

This is also located in the Gallery under Parodies and Editorials. Connected story here.

We really should! After all, the only verse referenced is Psalm 109:8. But seeing as the Demo☭rats have taken God out of their platform, do they really want God Himself to take the entire psalm into consideration?

Let us hope not. For He is a Merciful and Loving God.

Ain’t this special!

Link here.

The Demo☭rat National Convention festivities has barely begun (what with 20,000 Mohammedans at yesterday’s Jumah), and already things are starting to go awry. To wit:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of Президент Обама — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention.
Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the base of the sculpture, built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach, S.C., pounding and smoothing out the sand that had washed off the facade of the waist-up rendering of the chief executive.
The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr. Обама‘s face didn’t see too much damage. But the storm was so strong that its heavy winds blew the rain sideways, pelting the president’s right side and leaving the sand pockmarked and completely erasing his right elbow.

I wonder if God is laughing at this…edifice of narcissism?

Since when does the President of the United States send out FORM LETTERS to the parents of the Navy Seals killed in the helicopter crash (or was it a crash? I wonder)!
Signed by an autopen!

Yes, that’s because Бара́к Хусе́йн Обама is so damned disrepectful of the mission they carried out that took out Osama. I can only imagine the words our Men and Women in the Armed Forces have for their ‘Boss.’ He. Does. Not. Give. A. S**T! about them. At All!
68 Days to go until we can vote this Son of a Bitch OUT!

Let’s face it, Kara Thrace tooled around town/base in a honkin’ huge truck…there’s no reason why she didn’t have something like this stored somewhere else on Caprica:

Brace yourselves, it’s about to get geeky. We don’t typically dig on celebrity crushes, but we’ve made a special exception for the lovely Katee Sackhoff. As one of the stars of “Battlestar Galactica,” the actress quickly established herself as our favorite toaster-frakking Viper pilot, and her charm outside that tomboy role only made her more endearing. Now she’s gone and given us another reason to be smitten. Sackhoff recently contracted the custom motorcycle gurus at Classified Moto to build her a machine. Unlike most builds, the crew had almost completely free reign to do as they pleased. The only stipulation Sackhoff gave the builders was that she didn’t want the pegs positioned behind her.

I’ve got a bone to pick here. Starbuck didn’t frak a Toaster. She was married to one of the Final Five. BIG difference. Aside from that, it’s a really cool bike!

Well after nine months of sitting on a free upgrade downloaded to DVD (and with Mountain Lion already out!), I finally got up off my a** and installed Lion. All told, it took about just under two hours. It’s a little different; it seems to run a little smoother than Snow Leopard, and that’s a good thing.
The only issue at this point is making iCloud behave the way I want it to. That will be a challenge to say the least.