Comments Posted By steveegg
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ON FAILURE - OBAMA'S AND AMERICA'S
Count me as among those who are willing to accept the lesser evil of a collapsed but still capitalistic economy so that the greater evil of a collapsed and big-S Socialized economy doesn't happen.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 9.03.2009 @ 08:39
A LATE AFTERNOON STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS POST ABOUT NOTHING MUCH IN PARTICULAR
To be slightly fair to GM, the Presidential limo bears about as much resemblance to a production vehicle as a NASCAR race car does. Of course, the civilian Caddys don't look much better.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 22.01.2009 @ 20:46
This is feeling a bit like a reboot to me.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 20.01.2009 @ 18:32
I WILL MISS THE LEFT'S BUSH DERANGEMENT
Bold prediction - BDS will live on as long as there's a Leftist Nutter to breathe life into it.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 19.01.2009 @ 12:54
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE NUTHOUSE
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 25.12.2008 @ 09:09
ENOUGH WITH THE ILLINOIS BASHING ALREADY
The whole problem is you haven't let the Cheeseheads have some fun. The crooks have learned how to survive the rope neckties.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 16.12.2008 @ 22:05
ISRAEL GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF PLANNING IRAN ATTACK?
I have to disagree on the "several years away from (perfecting a delivery system)". A crude nuclear weapon would easily fit on either a fighter or "civilian" transport. It may or may not make it over Israeli airspace (and specifically over Tel Aviv), and it almost certainly wouldn't make it back, but I rather doubt it would be planned as a round-trip.
By the time the Iranians would be likely to have a warhead design sufficiently miniaturized to fit on a missile, anti-missile defenses will be rather robust.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 4.12.2008 @ 15:20
OOGEDY-BOOGEDY AND BIBBIDI, BOBBIDI, BOO
While I agree that we are at the point where there is a separation between the religious right and the secular right, I see the "how" of how we got here a bit different, probably because if I had to be classified, I would be "both". It was a de-emphasis on both the social and the economic/governmental halves of conservatism by the GOP that caused this.
The de-emphasis on the economic/governmental is already well-documented. The party distanced itself from the (soon-to-be-repealed) elimination of partial-birth abortion as soon as it was passed. It similarily distanced itself from opposition to gay "marriage"; indeed, most of the efforts were citizen-driven. When taken alone, the right side of those issues still ring with the majority; California adopted a 1-man/1-woman marriage amendment by the same large percentage they voted for Obama.
So, why did they vote for someone diametrically opposed to their cultural views for President, when there was a somewhat-less hostile option? The GOP lost credibility on not only the social issues, but also the economic/governmental ones. The voters decided that, if we're going to have a huge socialist government, they may as well go with 76 years of experience in huge, socialist government.
It didn't matter that the Republican candidate was a moderate who pandered to Hispanics; in fact, Obama won a historic percentage of both moderates and Hispanics. I honestly don't believe it would have mattered if that candidate had instead decided to pander to cultural conservatives to the mutual exclusion of economic/governmental conservatives, or decided to pander to economic/governmental conservatives to the mutual exclusion of cultural conservatives; any micro-targeting was doomed to failure.
That sentiment also explains why Mike Huckabee, who can best be described as a Christian Socialist, became the darling of a significant portion of the religious "right". They saw that the GOP wasn't going to deliver on either half of conservatism, and decided to back somebody who at least espoused some of the social issues, even if it meant huge government that scorned capitalism.
It is going to take somebody (more properly, several "somebodys") who can credibly espouse both the cultural and the economic/governmental conservative positions to put the coalitions that gave us Reagan and the 104th Congress back together.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 20.11.2008 @ 17:05
Ouch. Ajacksonian pretty much summed it up. Depending on the BIOS, it could be a memory failure. Because it is a 5-year-old machine, I rather doubt you'll be able to find the right kind of memory (at least cheaply).
I feel for you; I had a massive desktop failure a couple weeks ago caused by a dead MCP fan allowing the chipset to overcook.
Until you get the desktop repaired (or more likely, replaced), if you have a USB keyboard/mouse, I've got an ergonomic solution for you. Plug that and the monitor into the laptop, and change what closing the lid does to do nothing. To do that last item, right-click on the power icon over by the clock, choose "Power Options", click on "Choose what closing the lid does", and change the option on "When I close the lid:".
Comment Posted By steveegg On 17.11.2008 @ 13:34
Is it really farther than Obama wants to go? Do recall the first things the "centrist, middle-class-tax-cut" Bill Clinton did was raise taxes on everybody and try to push through universal health care.
Clinton had more centrist and fewer far-left bona-fides than Obama.
Comment Posted By steveegg On 7.11.2008 @ 13:43
